Nah this is shit. The author wanted to have her cake and eat it too. There is no consequen...

She always fumbles the end because she doesn’t really understand feminism despite trying to incorporate it into her works. Japanese women and society are really behind on social progress so it’s to be expected. They just don’t have the understanding and deconstruction of these topics on as wide of a scale as western nations. They’re a few decades behind in terms of social progress. This kind of thing is harder in more collectivist countries vs individualist.

I think to say Japanese women are “behind” is honestly a bit weird - it’s as if we’re saying the west is the “correct pahh to that we should all converge towards”. It’s giving very “we are the centre of the world.”

Of course Japan in regards to gender equality is very poor, but there are other feminism methods that don’t require the west’s model. China has done a pretty great job at feminism for instance (e.g the men and the women share all the chores, and in some regions the men does everything).

I personally think the western interpretation of feminism is very very ineffective and drives men and women apart

I don’t trust this author at all tbh. The ending is gonna be unsatisfying esp if you read her last work

i agree

I’m talking the average Japanese person just like the average western woman. Women are not encouraged to be feminists and society will try to discourage you from feminist thought and action through consequences and dominant culture. I’m not trying to say Japanese women aren’t “woke” but they’re more highly discouraged and strictly confined by their collectivist society than western women in countries that operate in an individualist model. I was watching the Japanese me too movement and listening to Japanese women. They have it bad. Think about how hard it is to convince older women even in individualist societies that their husband is being disrespectful and abusive. The ones always excusing men around them or telling you you’re being too harsh on men while letting men get away with sexism. That’s what I mean by “behind”. The average Japanese woman still faces LEGAL discrimination in the workplace and is strongly encouraged to get married and have kids and become a housewife. They can’t even get divorced unless both people agree meaning your abusive husband has to agree to let you go which leads to a culture of women who run away in the dead of night. Japan is behind in terms of social progress than other 1st world countries and that’s a fact. LGBT people and women lack basic human rights afforded to those groups in other 1st world countries. I love consuming works from Japanese women about feminism but when I do I feel like their works feel a few decades behind compared to the work in my nation. It feels like consuming what was produced in my region in my mother and grandmothers generations. Saying this doesn’t mean Japan lacks in other areas. But I studied about Japan in college and studied the language and can speak with more knowledge than the average person on sites like this.

Personally I’m most interested in lesbians feminist theories

Wise words.