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Originally Posted by MMM
I said I wanted to read the articles you had read.
In a country as small and sometimes tightly packed in Japan, privacy is treated differently than it is in the west. Home bathing is a relatively new concept, and it was common for everyone to know what everyone in the neighborhood looked like naked because they all bathed together. This is still very common to this day, and hot springs are destination spots for tourists.
What it means is you don't go around and whisper about so-and-so's body behind her back because you are just as susceptible to the same scrutiny. I don't talk about your business if you don't talk about mine.
If sexual oppression is a global phenomenon, then Japan is probably as much a part of it as anywhere else. But that isn't the question that was raised, and I am not interested in a political discussion when we are already dancing on the edge of the rules.
There are many popular performers who are gay, lesbian and transgender, but like I stated above, no one famous talks about their private lives, gay or not. Society has created these lines for everyone, not just gays.
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And I said I'm not going to look for them for you. I didn't memorize the links. I found them on Google. Let it go.
I don't really understand what the point of the history of bathing in Japan is. If it's to say that Japan is a country of don't ask, don't tell - then yes, I already understand that. Many countries hold this same concept. It's still oppressive.
See, Japan is a heteronormative society. That means that everyone is assumed to be straight. If someone cannot correct the mistaken assumption that they are straight, then they are being forced to ignore their identity. It's a fact that if you can't speak about your identity, then you are being oppressed.
I'm not really sure why this is becoming such a back-and-forth. No offense, but it's a little annoying now. Let's just agree to disagree.
Also: if you're going to use gay to describe someone, the correct term is "gay people." "Gays" comes off a little derogatory.