Contrary to the image that “men run hot,” a growing number of men reportedly can’t bring themselves to say they’re cold in air-conditioned offices — a news report on this sparked a lively debate about perceived temperature on 5ch’s News Express+ board. The discussion ranged from the relationship between muscle mass, body fat, and feeling hot or cold, to the psychology of younger employees too embarrassed to put on a layer, all the way to the perennial question of “who actually controls the office AC, anyway.” Sightings were also reported of a “thermostat guardian” who secretly resets the AC back up, with opinions split between those who blame body type for cold sensitivity and those who call it a gendered assumption.
Have you ever heard the term “secretly cold-sensitive men”?
While the image of “men running hot” remains deeply entrenched, it’s said that quite a few men struggle with feeling “cold” from air conditioning during summer or other warm periods.
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Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Read the original article here
Bet he'd collapse the second he became a blue-collar worker lol
That's why
if you're average weight or thin, you get cold
Actually fat people are surprisingly cold-sensitive too
Muscular people are more likely to run hot
Heard that fat itself gets cold, so that's why they feel cold
Going forward, being ripped just isn't eco-friendly
But they're also more resistant to cold, so it evens out
Some okama? (dated, often derogatory slang for effeminate or cross-dressing men)
The women at my workplace apparently like the room itself kept cold
then they use spot cold-proofing gear for specific body parts
A muscular heavyweight like a sumo wrestler definitely runs hot
But if it's just plain fat with zero exercise, it wouldn't be strange for them to feel cold
Basically it comes down to muscle mass
But the women at my office are the ones controlling the thermostat
I get that — I don't want my hands and feet cold, but I like my face cold enough to sting a little
"Cool head, warm feet" is the ideal
But hot air rises and cold air sinks, so it never works out that way
It'd be fine if the air actually circulated well, but it rarely does
somehow that phrase really creeps up on you.
Even men get cold sensitivity if they do desk work with zero exercise — I know a guy like that
Guess it really comes down to keeping your body in shape
Foreign tourists walk around outside in just a T-shirt even in winter
Even though things keep getting more serious
Thinking puny human activity can change the global environment, or that humans can control it, is a bit arrogant lol
Humans are powerless in the grand scheme.
It worked too well — now we've got a whole generation of old folks who refuse to turn on the AC
My boss, who got promoted from fieldwork to a desk job,
kept complaining about being cold
So basically, white-collar workers are unhealthy
I do fieldwork, but I wear an air-conditioned jacket plus a dry-ice vest
It's less "cold" and more just "freezing"
Dye your bald head red
and the Red Team will give you props
no matter how many times I lowered the temperature, it kept mysteriously resetting to 28°C (82°F)
Because whenever someone dropped it below 27°C, someone else promptly bumped it right back up to 28°C
28°C (82°F) is scorching hot
Are you out of your mind?
Background and Key Points of This Debate
When it comes to office room temperature, the Ministry of the Environment’s long-recommended “28°C for cooling” guideline often gets cited, but perceived temperature varies enormously from person to person, and the thread repeatedly pointed out that a single set temperature can’t guarantee comfort for everyone. Many commenters attributed cold sensitivity to differences in muscle mass or body fat, but this isn’t a medically established explanation — it’s more of a folk theory — so that premise should be treated with caution when reporting on it. The stereotype that “men run hot” itself seems to be based on an image of outdoor fieldwork, and as desk-based work becomes more common, it may be increasingly out of step with reality. Meanwhile, the question of “who actually controls the office AC” is a recurring theme on these threads, often treated as a microcosm of workplace power dynamics around gender and status.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (News Express+) thread “[Health] Men Who Can’t Say “I’m Cold” — Is “Men Run Hot” Outdated? The Reality of the Rising Number of “Secretly Cold-Sensitive Men” in the Office.”
