“I should really do chores, I’ll just put on a YouTube to listen to in the background… hmm… the entire history of Mega Man, a game and IP I’ve never thought about, you say? Four hours you say?”
Yeah. I was not expecting it to involve that much conversation about eugenics and the nature of artificial intelligence and where we draw the line of consciousness and what qualifies as sentience and free will, but, damn, that Dr. Wily sure is a cunt. I still haven’t done the dishes…
The article outlined reasons for that to be happening in Japan, and references India for similarity, it didn’t imply that that is a universal response to gender inequality, simply that the reason for that specific phenomenon in Japanese culture is likely because of gender inequality, which seems more than a reasonable conclusion to me, especially when you look at the 80’s business woman culture era and how there was a decline in that specific behavior.
Also, I’m very much not seeing what you’re saying about your interpretation of feminism being present in the article. Gender inequality is a thing, objectively, to address that as a part that plays relevance in any given context doesn’t require feminist values.
I dated someone in high school whose family was all Irish levels of white and their brother looked like he popped straight out of Puerto Rico. He otherwise looked like everyone else in the family, to the point there was no doubt he was a child of both parents. There were a few other people throughout their family with the same deal. When they introduced me to him they said, “This is Collin, he’s not adopted or anything, he just got lucky.”