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[kyanited]

I'm sure some of you have read it, I'm also sure some haven't, and some most likely have seen the film.

Erica's review of the 1994 Takarazuka documentary Dream Girls

"Secondly, it's important to remember that Takarazuka was NOT designed to create strong, independent women - its was created to create "good wives, wise mothers." These women are not graduating to positions of financial and personal independence; they are expected to marry and subordinate themselves fully to their husbands-"


I'm quite happy times are a bit different now. *pets movie-star Saeko*


ETA: *also pets movie star Dan-chan*

Comments

[muffin-song.livejournal.com]

I think a lot of people fall into this trap. What annoys me the most is when people start generalizing that ALL Japanese women are like this. While it's a generalization that is based in some truth, it annoys me because it completely leaves out the women who work at my school who put in just as many hours as the guys. And some of the other more high powered women I know.

Japan's gender relations aren't perfect, but I think sometimes when talking about gender relations in Japan people start idealizing women's role western society too much. Cause the western world definitely still has problems too.

[ladybretagne.livejournal.com]

It's no more accurate to say that all Japanese women are the shy retiring wallflowers that stereotypes make them out to be than it is to say that all Californian women are health-nut beach bunnies or wannabe actresses. Globally gender equality is a problem and it's so ridiculously arrogant of Westerners to look down upon what they perceive as issues in other cultures without turning that same critical eye to the things that Western media perpetrates on the psyches of women.