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Comedian Okamura Takashi is under fire after telling a radio listener who asked if he should stop going to sex shops, “Hold off. God never gives you a challenge you can’t overcome....after Corona, pretty girls will become sex workers in short order.” https://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/article?a=20200426-00010000-flash-ent
“For ppl of means who go to sex shops to say so frankly that they’re looking forward for ppl w/o means to become sex workers to make ends meet is an impressive display of grotesque, systemic sexual exploitation.
https://twitter.com/boywiththethorn/status/1254368205293805568?s=21 https://twitter.com/boywiththethorn/status/1254368205293805568
https://twitter.com/boywiththethorn/status/1254368205293805568?s=21 https://twitter.com/boywiththethorn/status/1254368205293805568
Okamura kept going on, BTW:
“Because if they don’t earn money in a short time frame they’ll be hard pressed. So in a three month span you’ll see pretty girls suddenly start working hard then suddenly quit....So, be patient. Be patient, save up your money to go to sex clubs, “
“Because if they don’t earn money in a short time frame they’ll be hard pressed. So in a three month span you’ll see pretty girls suddenly start working hard then suddenly quit....So, be patient. Be patient, save up your money to go to sex clubs, “
“economize if you’re not working, and set your sites on those three months. Let’s dig in and stand tall.”
Simpler English: Let sex workers starve and then use the survivors when we need them.
Simpler English: Let sex workers starve and then use the survivors when we need them.
Nito Yumeno: “Our disordered society, where people can boldly state things like they’re looking forward to more pretty girls joining sex shops because coronavirus has left more people in economic distress.”
https://twitter.com/colabo_yumeno/status/1254314135979884546?s=21 https://twitter.com/colabo_yumeno/status/1254314135979884546
https://twitter.com/colabo_yumeno/status/1254314135979884546?s=21 https://twitter.com/colabo_yumeno/status/1254314135979884546
"Gonna leave this here - there will be entertainers & celebs who (after gently rebuking Okamura Takashi) will come out one after the other to defend him. The Okamura Guard, made up of those who want to preserve this system of sexual exploitation" 1/ https://twitter.com/KTB_genki/status/1254429984082391042
2/ "of women, will rise up. Okamura's statement, taken together with the fact that such a defense can easily ride Japan's airwaves, means that Japan is, structurally, finished."
"Listened to Okamura Takashi. And while he's certifiably awful, the injections of laughter from his staff were disgusting. That mood of ppl gleelfully sharing stories about riding this out by reveling in women brought low by coronavirus was hell." https://twitter.com/emil418/status/1254356692864622592
Sex worker Imaga Haru: “Lots of views re: Okamura Takashi’s words popping up. Tons of replies that make me go ‘nononono’. But as for saving ‘people in economic distress’ - that’s not the job of sex work, it’s primarily the job of a social welfare system.”
https://twitter.com/imagaharu/status/1254525621922697216?s=21 https://twitter.com/imagaharu/status/1254525621922697216
https://twitter.com/imagaharu/status/1254525621922697216?s=21 https://twitter.com/imagaharu/status/1254525621922697216
Former MEXT official Maekawa Kihei: “Okamura’s statement seems like the kind you can’t recover from.”
https://twitter.com/brahmslover/status/1254386187751403520?s=21 https://twitter.com/brahmslover/status/1254386187751403520
https://twitter.com/brahmslover/status/1254386187751403520?s=21 https://twitter.com/brahmslover/status/1254386187751403520
