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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/3391951.stm
Is this the one I keep hearing about, or have they just been at it for years and I never *noticed*?
We're all going to have to forgive me, I'm pretty damn sleep-deprived as far as I go, hungry, and generally startled. There's a very disjointed and probably offensive rant here, and it's been cut for bashing Japan and being incorrigibly liberal.
I don't really see as many Japanese pages mentioning anti-anti-manga sentiments as I think I do. I can only name two off the top of my head, and they are sure as hell not going in HERE, the first one because my Hagaren bookmarks are a circus and I can't find it, the second one because it's just so horrific I don't think I'd even link it on a porn site. Mostly I just get too much time to mull it over when I do my favorite hobby that I love to hate, ura hunting. Every single one of those desperate searches is a demonstration of how somebody in Japan, some group, has chicks who draw yaoi running SCARED. I've learned without even realizing it that there are definitely family values-type groups in Japan. They're just as scary as the ones here, except the Japanese ones push Japan, not the Bible, and are out to get yaoi, not condoms and school books. I do not like them (though for their part, I think they're a little harder on the righteous violence than we are), and I actually find them to be scarier than what we have in the US.
I'm not even going to try to make an argument about how yaoi is art. It doesn't matter, anyways; as far as I know, the Japanese really couldn't care less about censoring art left and right. I mean, they'd totally fuss over the David if some worldly Westerner hadn't told them that it's not a wee-wee, it's the ever-fetishized foreign culture. Why should they be any better about sex than the US if that's where they pick up a lot of their attitudes?
What's more important than art or whatever is that I am 19 years old (will be 20 in less than a month) and the minimum age listed on the ura page is 18. I am a full-fledged, biological, naturally-produced, consenting adult, and if my idea of a good time is seeing Roy screw Ed in every position imaginable, there is absolutely nothing morally wrong with me. Look, okay, I told you I needed a nap. This is like an amazing revelation for me. I count as a human being now, and I have a right to sexual freedom (AH I SAID SEX)! It's just outrageous!
And however sweet that feels, there are people around who say that is very not okay. The US ones scare me bad enough. The Japanese ones make me glad, for the first time in my entire life, that there are several thousand miles between me and there. At least in the US someone is going to argue with you every single time you try to do anything to anything in the government. Somebody will gladly step up to fight you no matter what your position is. Every opinion is represented, if only because someone's making them do it. In Japan, all that arguing is just kind of...argumentative. Don't push too hard for what you believe in, or people are really going to wonder.
(Sorry, but like I said, I'm startled.)
This is another bewitching thing I ran across. I'm not sure why this exists on the web, because it's all professional and stuff---maybe it's because it's old? It's very smart. When I read this, I really needed to know how wrong I was about Japan having Problems with it's youth. Interestingly enough, it turned out I wasn't really very wrong, and it also had some things to do with chicks and feminism, which I tend to get along with. Like I said, it's a really neat article.
Was it Olive's guy friend North who once said being sleep-deprived is like being stupid? I'm not just struggling to remember words I like here, I think I'm having trouble focusing my eyes on things.
Is this the one I keep hearing about, or have they just been at it for years and I never *noticed*?
We're all going to have to forgive me, I'm pretty damn sleep-deprived as far as I go, hungry, and generally startled. There's a very disjointed and probably offensive rant here, and it's been cut for bashing Japan and being incorrigibly liberal.
I don't really see as many Japanese pages mentioning anti-anti-manga sentiments as I think I do. I can only name two off the top of my head, and they are sure as hell not going in HERE, the first one because my Hagaren bookmarks are a circus and I can't find it, the second one because it's just so horrific I don't think I'd even link it on a porn site. Mostly I just get too much time to mull it over when I do my favorite hobby that I love to hate, ura hunting. Every single one of those desperate searches is a demonstration of how somebody in Japan, some group, has chicks who draw yaoi running SCARED. I've learned without even realizing it that there are definitely family values-type groups in Japan. They're just as scary as the ones here, except the Japanese ones push Japan, not the Bible, and are out to get yaoi, not condoms and school books. I do not like them (though for their part, I think they're a little harder on the righteous violence than we are), and I actually find them to be scarier than what we have in the US.
I'm not even going to try to make an argument about how yaoi is art. It doesn't matter, anyways; as far as I know, the Japanese really couldn't care less about censoring art left and right. I mean, they'd totally fuss over the David if some worldly Westerner hadn't told them that it's not a wee-wee, it's the ever-fetishized foreign culture. Why should they be any better about sex than the US if that's where they pick up a lot of their attitudes?
What's more important than art or whatever is that I am 19 years old (will be 20 in less than a month) and the minimum age listed on the ura page is 18. I am a full-fledged, biological, naturally-produced, consenting adult, and if my idea of a good time is seeing Roy screw Ed in every position imaginable, there is absolutely nothing morally wrong with me. Look, okay, I told you I needed a nap. This is like an amazing revelation for me. I count as a human being now, and I have a right to sexual freedom (AH I SAID SEX)! It's just outrageous!
And however sweet that feels, there are people around who say that is very not okay. The US ones scare me bad enough. The Japanese ones make me glad, for the first time in my entire life, that there are several thousand miles between me and there. At least in the US someone is going to argue with you every single time you try to do anything to anything in the government. Somebody will gladly step up to fight you no matter what your position is. Every opinion is represented, if only because someone's making them do it. In Japan, all that arguing is just kind of...argumentative. Don't push too hard for what you believe in, or people are really going to wonder.
(Sorry, but like I said, I'm startled.)
This is another bewitching thing I ran across. I'm not sure why this exists on the web, because it's all professional and stuff---maybe it's because it's old? It's very smart. When I read this, I really needed to know how wrong I was about Japan having Problems with it's youth. Interestingly enough, it turned out I wasn't really very wrong, and it also had some things to do with chicks and feminism, which I tend to get along with. Like I said, it's a really neat article.
Was it Olive's guy friend North who once said being sleep-deprived is like being stupid? I'm not just struggling to remember words I like here, I think I'm having trouble focusing my eyes on things.
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Honestly, they're not THAT much worse than us. They haven't dragged a gay guy on a length of rope attached to the back of a truck on a stretch of Texas road until he dies, which has always been my hallmark for perfectly outrageous. As far as I know they don't stand around outside abortion clinics telling mothers who enter that their babies are going to the dog food factory, either (though I'm wondering how they're doing on that procedure after being so slow to allow certain kinds of legitamate birth control...and I imagine if you got an abortion there even your neighbors and your boss and could hold it against you).
Well, we all suck, I'm gonna go play FFX2.