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[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 50 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Crisis? How does that work?

[–] RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.works 72 points 6 months ago

You see, when you have a systemic problem with sexual assault, that's just the status quo, no big deal. Getting called out for it though, crisis!

[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee -1 points 6 months ago

No more anime

[–] neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com 43 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Yes. Women naming the names of men who sexually assaulted them is a crisis. A crisis indeed.

Who the hell wrote this?

[–] refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I mean, it absolutely would be a crisis for those in power who are guilty of rape/sexual abuse/harassment

[–] neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 6 months ago

0 sympathy for those people.

[–] Bezier@suppo.fi 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

If it involves many people that are difficult to replace or even just to get rid of, the resulting situation could be called a crisis. I don't think anyone called the naming itself that.

[–] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Even if so, it's easy to misinterpret the headline.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 24 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The place that makes camera phones click so women know men are taking upskirts has a sexual assault problem?/s

[–] Stern@lemmy.world 14 points 6 months ago

The place that has women only rail cars because of rampant groping issues has a sexual assault problem? /s

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 22 points 6 months ago

The Onion: Japanese Government bracing to completely ignore incoming wave of criminal allegations.

[–] 2ugly2live@lemmy.world 18 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Japan’s #MeToo movement has been “building up slowly”, says Miura Mari of Sophia University in Tokyo. In 2017 Ito Shiori, a freelance journalist, accused a reporter and the biographer of then-prime minister Abe Shinzo, of rape. Her criminal case was dismissed, but she won damages in a civil lawsuit. “Black Box Diaries”, her film chronicling the episode, became the first Japanese documentary to be nominated for an Oscar last month (though there is no release date for it in Japan). Her case proved controversial and sparked nationwide conversations. According to surveys, only 5-10% of people report assaults to the police in Japan, compared with 23% in America. Demonstrations also started in 2019 after four rape acquittals were handed down by the courts in quick succession.

Surprised it took them so long to be honest. Women have been treated terribly in Japan for ages, even more so as the population decreased (because that's women's fault I guess).

I like that the crisis is "a bunch of powerful people that run the country/media are rapists. I mean, we knew that part, but now we have to do something. Who will host our TV shows!?"

[–] EtnaAtsume@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

Hey, I studied at Sophia and even met Dr. Mari, even if just in passing! Neat!

[–] Napcha@lemdro.id 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Was about time 😩

[–] blakenong@lemmings.world 3 points 6 months ago

Just ask any school girl in Japan.