No Pants - No Thanks

From one of my Twitter contacts this morning, I found out that on the 10th of January there is to be an attempted No Pants subway ride (or rather Yamanote Line ride) [link cached on Google].

Clearly the people involved in organising this Tokyo ride don't much understand how totally freaked out a lot of people will be and that some people won't take it as a good-natured prank but simple see how juvenile white people are (and I can guarantee that around 80% of those taking part will be white males under 30). There is already an image of us as binge drinkers and womanisers. Is this really the kind of stereotype we want to perpetuate about ourselves?

I'm all for youthful hi-jinx but for goodness sake do we want to give the uyoko another excuse to ridicule us besides the Yamanote Halloween party?