My wife does this and I've started doing it, too. It's not perfect, because you don't always want to wear the outfit on the right, but it's better than the way I did it before. I also stopped "stacking" shirts in drawers, because the ones on the bottom would be forgotten and the ones on the top would be overworn. I do…

Oh, I just checked Wikipedia and saw that OOB came back in '98 and continued till '06. I here I was thinking it had disappeared in the early '90s.

Right. East Asian and Western educational approaches seem to represent extremes that have their good and bad points. I wish I could combine the best of both (and I try). Yes, I teach university students, but I know a bit about how things are done in middle and high schools. Not exactly answering in chorus, but very…

So it sounds like feminism isn't something that young Japanese people are even familiar with as an idea. Do you think that that's the case because no one was really trying to get the message out (i.e. arguing too much in their ivory towers)? Or do you think that the message was sent in a way that was unappealing to…

I envy you your experiences studying in school. Although my generation was not second wave, our profs most definitely were, and we were fed all that as if it were gospel, and if we questioned it, it was (we were made to feel) because we were still brainwashed by the patriarchy, or we simply did not understand it. But…

Oh, and as for tensions, there has long been a lot of tensions in the activist LGBT community here. That's why there are two separate Tokyo pride parades. And here in the Kansai region, the movement is dominated by an XY person who identifies as "X," but who in my opinion behaves like a typical domineering, bullying…

Anise was great. Very classy operation. I've got a copy lying around here somewhere.

Macho Sluts and On Our Backs!? Either you and I are the same generation or you were into really retro stuff.

I got this response that can only be considered trolling, but I refuse to give the troll a forum, so I dismissed the response.

No, you are correct about Daly, as far as I know. I seem to remember reading somewhere that she softened her stances in later life, but I can't remember the details and that may be wishful thinking on my part. Her horrifically transphobic beliefs are well documented. I have no idea if Robin Morgan walked back her own…

Yes, I've known trans women my own age who had to put up with that shit back then. (By the way, it was Robin Morgan I had the crush on, not Mary Daly. Professor Daly was quite nice, but not exactly crush material unless maybe you were an aspiring lesbian separatist.)

Hmm. I never thought about it from that point of view before. You probably would have found the Japanese education system much more comfortable. Although I often wish I could make my classes more interactive, one thing I don't miss is American students who have little knowledge but are nonetheless eager to share their…

If you know Erica, maybe you know Rica-chan, too?

Thanks, Kyosuke. So much to respond to. Erica is a buddy of mine. We frequently exchange info.

They are. I'm so proud to know them.

Re Moran, well, humor either works for you or it doesn't, so not much to be said there. I do think she said some highly quotable things in her intro, anyway. I just found the book refreshing.

Haha! Waiting for your response. Yoshiya was an amazing person. But it's that photo of Yamakawa that makes me feel dizzy. If I had met at the time that photo was taken and she pushed up those glasses while explaining her new book, "Women's Rebellion," I do believe I would faint on the spot.

Thanks for responding to my somewhat academic treatise ripping on academic treatises. LOL

BTW, I was inspired to write the above rant by this conversation started by anomalopotamus here. It would have derailed the conversation, though, so I made a new thread.

This semester (That's the Japanese semester, which started in September and ends this month), I have been teaching a course (in Japanese, mostly for Japanese students, though there are some non-Japanese students in there, too) on "women and manga." (Manga, for those who don't know, is the Japanese word for…