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Forgive me if the title is crap, but the other one I had came up with (Unseen Japan: Man complains about anime character's breasts being too big #metoo #kutoo) seemed a bit too long for a thread title.
The other day I found this account on twitter because of a particular post they made that blew up with over 1000 comments.
They saw an advertisement for a blood donation campaign in Japan. However there was something very wrong.
The anime character depicted in the advert had large breasts. Unable to let this injustice slide this person took to Twitter to let everyone know that the most important thing to complain about in the wake of a typhoon that has killed 73 people and injured 200 others is that that a cartoon character's boobs are just too big. Not that the Red Cross is in need of blood but that the character depicted is simply too obscene.
This person also thought that it would be prudent to include the #metoo and #kutoo hashtags. Because when you see a fully clothed cartoon character who's breasts are just too big that's somehow related to sexual harassment and assault in the workplace.
This entire scene read as absurd to me, the contrast between complaining about a cartoon character featured in a blood donation drive in the wake of a deadly typhoon, adding hashtags to try and somehow add legitimacy to the complaint, as well as the author being a guy who was interested in Japan and anime and eventually moved from America to live there, as well his blog where he claims that he's representing what Japanese people really think. Even though a bunch of what he's linked on this topic consists of one person making a claim with a ton of people disagreeing in the comments.
He seems to have pissed off Japanese twitter because they are all over him now.
At the end of it all, I think the biggest takeaway from this case of someone moving to another country to export sex negative feminist ideas is how much it reminds me of those missionaries who travel to different countries to preach the good word of the [insert holy text here]. Someone with a fierce determination to "educate" the poor and unwashed masses no matter what.
To be fair they've done some reporting on women's rights stuff in Japan, which is fine but this post in particular is just really fucking dumb. I just thought I'd write this out to see what other people think about it.
Forgive me if the title is crap, but the other one I had came up with (Unseen Japan: Man complains about anime character's breasts being too big #metoo #kutoo) seemed a bit too long for a thread title.
The other day I found this account on twitter because of a particular post they made that blew up with over 1000 comments.
They saw an advertisement for a blood donation campaign in Japan. However there was something very wrong.
The anime character depicted in the advert had large breasts. Unable to let this injustice slide this person took to Twitter to let everyone know that the most important thing to complain about in the wake of a typhoon that has killed 73 people and injured 200 others is that that a cartoon character's boobs are just too big. Not that the Red Cross is in need of blood but that the character depicted is simply too obscene.
This person also thought that it would be prudent to include the #metoo and #kutoo hashtags. Because when you see a fully clothed cartoon character who's breasts are just too big that's somehow related to sexual harassment and assault in the workplace.
This entire scene read as absurd to me, the contrast between complaining about a cartoon character featured in a blood donation drive in the wake of a deadly typhoon, adding hashtags to try and somehow add legitimacy to the complaint, as well as the author being a guy who was interested in Japan and anime and eventually moved from America to live there, as well his blog where he claims that he's representing what Japanese people really think. Even though a bunch of what he's linked on this topic consists of one person making a claim with a ton of people disagreeing in the comments.
He seems to have pissed off Japanese twitter because they are all over him now.
At the end of it all, I think the biggest takeaway from this case of someone moving to another country to export sex negative feminist ideas is how much it reminds me of those missionaries who travel to different countries to preach the good word of the [insert holy text here]. Someone with a fierce determination to "educate" the poor and unwashed masses no matter what.
To be fair they've done some reporting on women's rights stuff in Japan, which is fine but this post in particular is just really fucking dumb. I just thought I'd write this out to see what other people think about it.
