Board Thread:Off-Topic Discussion/@comment-35301431-20170314133630/@comment-53539-20171129115340

Dizzyzebra wrote: CCyclone wrote: @Ihavenoideawhatsoever

Gosh... that's incredibly disgusting. Such a great producer man, and in a place as conservative as Japan no less. Granted that kind of stuff happens everywhere but it's such a shock to hear it coming out of Japan, of all places. Unfortunately, sexual assault/harassment of minors is actually a huge problem in Japan, often covered up by victim shaming and cultural taboos. I recall only recently an actress sex ring was uncovered in their entertainment industry. The fact that girls need seperate train carriages due to groping is also telling. A very depressing area to look into, if you ever end up researching it.

Culturally, the Japanese give off this image of stoic emotionless vibes, despite the whole anime and manga thing portraying them as otherwise. I've seen articles wherein women complain their husbands aren't that open and come days like valentines day, they rarely show emotions. (Be it, Valentine's Day isn't a Japanese holiday so, I honestly am surprised that it and Christmas both are slowly becoming big holidays in Japan since neither has anything to due with their own culture. Ditto Halloween is more and more referenced.) :-?

A lot of what you are saying stems from the fact that they've had freedom in terms of sex for a very long time. Other then rules such as they can't show genitals... In recent decades, pressure from the west has forced change. A few years back the 18+ industry had a protest due to the fact the west had forced the industry to abide to a new set of rules and guidelines that was about to crush a lot of their freedom they once had. Which I side with both on the side of the Japanese and the west on because there are things Japan needed to improve upon due to the need to update its culture to match the modern era, but there are also plenty of things the west shouldn't interfere with and honestly should butt out of.

There is also the issue of women not being treated right and this is often blamed on the raise of the Otaku culture (despite the problem always being there, its just better if you have an escape goat to put all the blame on), girls are slowly beginning to be seen as more like pets and not people. Which is giving Otakus a really bad name as they are already being attacked by criticism for things like taking photos of girls underwear with their phones.

Japan also for a long time had whore houses right into the 20th century that were free to be visited. But at the same time... They pushed the stigma of being a virgin upon marriage a lot more then here in the west and its shameful at times if you aren't. The victim shaming, I have heard of as it means that instead of getting the person who did it dealt with and protecting all other girls from them, they can be too afraid to come forward and this means he goes on to repeat it.

I would like to say its culturally a thing that's to do with Japan, but according to my landlady, America also has a high rate of assaults when she was there... And considering her own husband treated her badly and got away with it because she was an American citizen... (though the assaults were all recorded at least by the US as the law at the time insisted on doing so due to law changes.... and it the British records who refused to note any of the assaults as our own laws said raping and beating up your wife until she is hospitalised was fine as she is yours to do as you please with, so long as you don't kill her - because then its murder and murder your wife is against the law... ¬_¬).

Due to their reliance on slaves early on in its history, even the police said that rape and other sexual assaults were not considered serious crimes as slaves regularly were assaulted, thus the stigma is well deep inside the American culture. So a whole culture had spawn from it of turning a blind eye against such acts. Rape is also freely committed by gang members and gangs are found in most cities and towns in America, even when you don't think there are any, they are. And gang members out number the police 10 to 1. This is also why America's media focuses on murder as its actually about as bad as you can get, while theft and assaults are not anywhere near the same level of concern.

And even in Britain where I live... If your boss rapes you, you report it to the police straight away, due to the law if he says you reported him because he fired you, and that it wasn't an assault it was an affair he had with you... The police drop it. This is because, for all means, they really can't prove who of the two of you is correct and business men have the stigma of a reputation that makes their side of the story "more right" (thanks Marguerite Thatcher for the 1980s Britain, shame it came with baggage). Heck, until about the late 80/90s, girls were still saying "to love and obey" in their marriage vows instead of "to love and cherish".

And in a number of Islamic countries, you get raped, you get jailed as its "adultery" unless the assaulter marries you. Which 10 to 1 doesn't occur. And in many more countries, girls are not children once they reach about 8-10 years of age and can be married off. Basically the first time they have a period. In most cultures, rape inside marriage still is not a crime.

In recent years, women (and some men) have began to protest about all of this because... Rape and assault in general sexually has often been used for revenge or control of women.

Honestly, I understand Japan may have a problem, but there is a global problem that largely gets ignored towards women in general. People have said things like "its because she was drunk" or "its because she wore slutty clothes"... But believe me, in the past when it was normal even in the west to wear full clothes that covered you from head to toe... It still happened Justas frequent, if not more because there was less of a fear of punishment for doing it.