Sunday, February 11, 2018
you can't have #metoo in a country where #nomeansyes
You can’t have a #metoo movement in Japan because it would include almost every woman and girl who has been touched by the portrayal of sexual violence or who has actually been touched by someone non consensually. #toomany Everything is underreported in Japan because shame is the gag that controls the people. Losing face, pride and making waves are all things that are not inherent in the culture. Sexual violence however is. The image of women being “seduced” by sea creatures goes back as far as Edo and it is made to look erotic. These animal/tentacle seductions carry over into both modern anime and hentai porn and can still be seen on Netflix in Japan right now. The scrolls of old have octopus and courtesan sex and one could poetically interpret this as symbolic to a degree but anime and hentai pretty much leave nothing up to the imagination and it would be like saying bukkake is symbolic as Butoh, but I doubt it. It is symbolic of the misogyny and disregard of the bodies, rights and safety of women and girls of Japan. And what about American porn? Yes, that too is symbolic of the sexism and misogyny of America and Western culture. Both are problematic but the U.S version is some twenty years ahead of Japan, U.S school girls and barely legals have to be 18 or older with a 2257 ID on file! This law is enforced more strictly and unanimously agreed upon than condom use. For those of us that walked on both soils we can fairly assess that the social consciousness of Japan has suffered greatly from being closed off for so long. They are resistant to multi-cultural identities and believe that it is easier to let the government dictate their lives versus make waves. Musical street performance and smoking weed are in the same category and can send you to jail for up to 1 month or even longer for violations of the existing laws around them. Resistance is in small pockets here. Suicide is one of the forms of Japanese resistance and it is one of the ways that people disrupt daily life here, but not for long. The steps that come before a subway or mass suicide go unnoticed and pushed out of sight and out of mind. Hushed away and pushed into the dark dirty rooms of the hikkikomori and the dying elderly. I watched a popular anime called Gantz, supposedly futuristic but clearly a reflection of the 1990s worldview of the Japanese artist and producers. The female character was beamed into existence and she was non consensually kissed by the first guy, taken to the back to be raped by another thug, rescued by the nice guy and then after her rescue sexually assaulted by a dog’s tongue, which she protested erotically to stimulate the viewers into arousal around her complete exploitation. A newer version of Gantz left out all of the aforementioned scenes, so I could fairly say that huge improvements had been made, but still nothing that resembled real strength or independence of thought. She still fell in love with the main character after knowing him for 15 minutes and died in the end fighting for the possibility of pairing up with him and her child. Skip to another anime called “High School of the Dead” on netflix and it is a zombie genre that seems to rip off The Walking Dead except that all the female high school students in it are objectified with balloon like breasts falling out and gratuitous panty shots. I’ve seen the school girl fetish in Japan since I first got here, but I’d never seen it in full motion and watched how titillating it is designed to be. The average Japanese person does not seem to make the connection that sexualizing real high school teenagers portrayed in anime does not have real consequences for all of the actual female high school students who wear uniforms in Japan. But it does. The uniforms are not as sexy as they are portrayed and most of the young women are not as bubbly or full of falling cleavage as their counterparts. Japan doesn’t make the connection that allowing this portrayal is sexual violence, but they do take great pains to pixelate all the adult consensual porn scenes. The result is a misguided sex and repressed sexual culture. Because Japanese communication is indirect to the point of saying the opposite of what they mean to save face, this is one of the main formulas in Japanese porn. “No means yes” is about 90% of the sex that we see with Japanese women, she is protesting and saying “it hurts” “stop” “I can’t” and then she has a squirting orgasm to her own surprise! I have searched the internet for the very few Japanese women who are actually a FUCK YES, FUCK NOW, FUCK HARD. It is a rarity but there are a small few Moe Oishii is one of the few I can watch. Do a search for her. She's a Japanese porn revolutionary just because she never says no.
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