Hiroyuki Raises Concerns Over Gyukaku’s Half Price for Women Controversy Amid Tension in Gender Reporting on TV
Is the “Discount for Women Only” really discrimination against men? The heated debate continues.
Hiroyuki Nishimura, the former administrator of “2channel,” appeared remotely on “Abema Prime” and expressed his discomfort with an event being held by the yakiniku chain Gyukaku in September.
Under certain conditions, this campaign offers an all-you-can-eat course at 3,938 yen for men and half price at 1,969 yen for women. As soon as Gyukaku announced this,
“Why only for women?”
“That’s discrimination against men.”
It sparked outrage on social media, with comments like that.
Gyukaku has stated that there is no intention to discriminate.
“Based on the data that in all-you-can-eat settings, women order an average of four plates less than men.”
They are offering half price only for women. They argue that this allows couples and families to save money overall.
Hiroyuki said,
“If it’s okay for a profit-driven company to favor women and discriminate against men, then it leads to the thinking that ‘it’s fine for women to have lower salaries and not get promoted,’ because that’s the company’s judgment. Therefore, any form of discrimination should be eliminated.”
Based on this viewpoint,
“If in America, it were said that Black people eat more yakiniku than white people, so we favor white people, that would simply be racial discrimination.”
He gave an example.
