Butsukari Otoko

I recently came across a term called Butsukari otoko. In Japan, this is what they call it when a man aggressively slams or shoulder checks a woman.

I can’t believe this happens often enough to have its own name. And honestly, I can’t wrap my head around why any man would ever want to slam into or shoulder check a woman in the first place.

Now, I know here in the U.S. we’ve got our own issues. You’ll hear stories about people hitting the elderly for no reason, which is disgusting, and those people deserve serious punishment.

But in Japan, this behavior is so common that they actually have a proper term for it. I just don’t get it. Can someone explain why this happens, and more importantly, why nobody steps in to beat the crap out of these guys when they hit a woman?

If I were in Japan and you hit my wife, my sister, or my mom, I’d slap the crap out of you. So why aren’t there consequences for this kind of awful behavior?