John Berry <[email protected]> wrote:
> Rather the fact that men have continued to be seen as more disposable is > in large part because of the focus of the rights women have, with a > simultaneous subjugation of men. > I see no sign of that in Japan or the U.S. On the contrary, in both countries more money is spent on medical problems that primarily affect men. Heart attacks in men are more often treated with intense care; women are told to go home. Traditionally, a Japanese family would feed and care for a boy more than a girl if they had to choose. In the 1930s they were sometimes forced to sell their daughters into sexual slavery. They would not do anything so harsh to a son. The law did not allow it, as far as I know. My 80-year-old widowed mother-in-law used to climb up on a steep roof to fix the tiles because, she said, "I wouldn't want my son to do such a dangerous thing." (Mind you, that drove my brother-in-law crazy. "For crying out loud DON'T DO THAT mom!!!" That was typical of the self abnegation of 20th century Japanese women. Passive-aggressive behavior was not invented by Jewish mamas.) Needless to say, there is zero sign that men are being subjugated in Japan. I don't see any sign of it in the U.S. either. It sounds like someone's overwrought imagination, or some nitwit who thinks taking out the garbage once in a while is being oppressed. Or like one of these Christian fundamentalists who thinks *he* is being oppressed because some guy wants to marry some other guy in another part of town. There is plenty of feminism these days in both counties. - Jed
