To quote the press
release can be unfair and cheap, and I fully acknowledge my occasionally doing
this in writing stuff, but I think quoting the large pink wall text is more than
fair.
I met her when she
was only twenty years old.
She already had a
two-year-old boy and was pregnant again.
I fell in love with
her at first sight.
A girl – and a
mother.
She had two
characters in herself.
I had never met a
girl like her- a girl full of motherly love.
This is our six month
lovesday.
-Motoyuki Daifu
Come on, Japan, what
is the deal? I understand they lost WWII and we did kill large parts of the
population, but I am not sure that explains all the creepy sexualizing of the
young in Japanese cultural exports. Maybe it’s the only aspect of Japanese
culture American markets are interested in? But somewhere there has to be a
Japanese cultural minister who needs to be doing a better job on putting a spin
on their culture: “A girl – and a mother. I had never met a girl like her- a
girl full of motherly love” Got to work on keeping those kind of things to yourself,
Japan. Nobuyoshi Araki, Kohei Yoshiyuki, Daido Moriyama, is there a famous
Japanese photographer that you can Google-image search while at work? Come on, Japan,
you’re just creeping me out, oh and the pictures are what you’d expect for
intimate snapshots of a young Japanese woman.
PS on further
investigation two things about Japanese culture have been explained to me. One,
they have no Judeo-Christian-Muslim hang ups about sex and, two, they never had
a feminist movement.
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