Posted in Geek Culture, Gender, tagged China, 腐女, fanart, fanfiction, fanworks, feminism, geek, geek culture, geek women, GitHub, harassment, nerd, open source, queer comics, Sailor Moon, STEM, tech, Vox Day on 2014/04/28| 3 Comments »
Interrupting our regularly scheduled Japan programming for the roughly biannual geek-centric gender reader. In this reader: women DO read comics; arresting fanfic writers in China; open-source feminism, and more.
Emerald City Comicon via Comic Book Resources
Posted in Reblog, tagged Gender, harassment, rape culture, University of Ottawa on 2014/03/03| Leave a Comment »
“‘If these men face no consequences for their actions – indeed, if they are able to press charges against Roy for publicly addressing their comments – what are the students going to learn from this? They’ll learn that rape is a joke, that women can be terrorized into silence, and that it’s useless, maybe even dangerous, to speak up. Are these the lessons that we want our student leaders to be instilling in the heads of seventeen and eighteen year old kids?'”
My friend Anne Thériault of The Belle Jarwrote a post a few days ago about an incident at University of Ottawa wherein several male members of student leadership gathered to chat about Anne Marie Roy, president of the Student Federation of the University of Ottawa. Ms. Roy had apparently beaten a dude for the office, and these dudes were not happy. They went on for several screens talking about how someone should “punish her with their shaft,” speculating about what venereal diseases she might have, and offering to buy beers for a guy who says he’s going to “fuck her in the ass” on someone’s desk. You’ll find the whole disgusting mess over on The Belle Jar. Here’s an excerpt from Anne’s article, which you should go read right now.
Someone punish her with their shaft. Someone punish her with…
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Posted in Gender, tagged 47 ronin, Adorno, Cards Against Humanity, cons, diabetes, Disney Princess Lingerie, division of labor, fans, gendered health, gendered weight trends, girl bands, harassment, Japanese underwear, k-pop, Ladies Against Humanity, Lolitocracy, men's bras, stalking, The Grand Narrative, women on the Internet on 2014/01/19| 1 Comment »
In this gender reader: Japanese underwear, 47 ronin, gendered weight trends, K-pop’s “Lolitocracy,” women on the Internet, and Ladies Against Humanity.
Posted in Expat Living, Gender, Race, tagged Abe, Abenomics, coeducation, feminism, Gender, gender gap index, gender reader, harassment, japan, misogyny, racism, rape culture, sexism, University of Michigan, womenomics on 2013/11/30| 3 Comments »
In this gender reader, doing some catching up from October (when I did a spooky gender reader instead): harassment of non-Japanese women in Japan; bottoming out a whopping #105 in the Gender Gap Index; the problem with all the patronizing “sexless” Japan journalism; and Social Justice Wario.
Frequency of sex vs fertility rate via Yuki Aota.
Posted in Consumer Culture, Gender, Visual Culture, tagged Abenomics, マタハラ, chikan, dojinshi, education, fangirl, fashion, fujoshi, Gender, gender socialization, groping, harassment, k-pop, Korea, manga, marriage, masculinities, maternity harassment, slash, women's rights on 2013/06/24| 4 Comments »
My friend Toranosuke over at the Japanese-art blog A Man With Tea has been looking for a good Japan-and-gender blog, something like a Japan-focused version of the excellent The Grand Narrative, which focuses mainly on Korea. My blog has a broader focus, but if I do occasional Gender Readers, why not do a Japan/Asia-specific one? Readers, if you have links or blog suggestions, please send them my way in the comments! よろしくお願いします.
via Contemporary Japanese Literature
Posted in Advertisements, Expat Living, Gender, tagged assault, セクハラ, チカン, chikan, groping, harassment, hollaback, japan, sexism, sexual violence, stopping harassment, trains, 性犯罪 on 2013/06/10| 26 Comments »
Trigger warning: sexual harassment
In preface to today’s guest post, a little background about chikan. Somewhere between 50-70% of young Japanese women experience chikan (“pervert,” often “groper”) on Japanese commuter trains in metropolitan areas (Burgess & Horii, p. 3). To combat this, some train lines have created women-only train cars in major cities to help prevent groping in crowded train cars by providing safe spaces for women. Additionally, Japan’s camera phones make a snapshot noise that cannot be turned off to help prevent upskirt shots (see Stevens, Hayashi). Finally, in order raise awareness of the chikan problem, train stations and train lines have posted warning signs about gropers: “Beware of chikan,” “Chikan is a crime,” and so on.
When Juliana first contacted me about her personal experience with chikan, I was a little surprised, because groping on Japanese public transit is so common that a lot of us expats treat it as just another part of living in Japan–maybe not being groped regularly, but to the point where you’re convinced it’s bound to happen sooner or later. I used to consider myself “lucky” that I went 4.5 years without ever being groped, especially when traveling in Tokyo during rush hour. How horrible to think of this as luck, when that’s how everyone ought to be treated–to travel without fear or threat of molestation.
