South Korea did what Japan cannot: elected a woman leader.
Can't say I know much about her, and I do not like the conservative ties, but LDP, DPJ or Sokka Gakkai party, Japan can't and won't elect a woman leader. You can blame the old men, you can blame the rural vote, but most of all I blame the female half of society for the retrograde status of women in Japan. If just a few of you stopped dressing like children and fetish objects and got politically motivated your country might have a future. If South Korea beats you at a sexual equality benchmark, you're finished.
Fuck them. My family's out of here in the summer, and I am not raising my daughter here. Thank god.
In happier news, gonna be a girl then? Congratulations.
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DeleteIt's a bit harsh to say you blame the women most of all. If you thought you had no chance of having a career other than making bentos for your salaryman husband, you might start collecting Hello Kitties too. Maybe. I'd put the blame 50-50.
ReplyDeleteYes it's harsh, but do you think you have the vote (Japanese women only got this during the AMERICAN occupation), better workplace equality, better maternal benefits and job-security, less sexual harassment, public institutions more sensitive to sexual assault, etc. than the Japanese because your father's, grandfather's and great-grandfather's generations of men gave it to you out of 'the goodness of their hearts'? Hell no! What women did not get from suffragettes and the ballot-box they got from the Lysistrata technique.
DeleteHa. Maybe a fear of Lysistrata is what keeps the sex-trade so well protected in Japan...
Sorry, I do "blame [Japanese] women most of all." Misguided male self-interest I can understand, though not respect. But there is something more pernicious: female social and political disengagement when 50% is a hell of a 'balance of power'.
DeleteTrue but how many Western women today do you think would fight for those things? It'd take a lot of time out of their posting pics of themselves doing duck-face and showing their tits on facebook schedule.
DeleteWe are lucky we had those few generations of gutsy women. How did Japanese women get the vote anyway? Was it one of those things imposed on the country after the war?
I think we may get there in my life time... Women have been candidates in the US for over 150 years I think. I think it would be interesting to see a woman and her methods in the presidential seat.
ReplyDeleteCongrats on the baby girl by the way. :) I hope you whip up a good rules of life guide for her too.
Thank you. As for rules, I'll have to fight against my protective instincts. The first rule I thought of was: cover your @$$ before leaving this house!
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