To clarify, she specified that the “casting couch” was NOT for the porn industry, but her friend told her it was for the anime voice industry and her first hand experience was the groping in an anime voice acting party. However I am curious about what made her cry, if it was just the voice acting related groping or…

An ex of mine went to voiceover college, did some uncredited roles in big anime, has a great voice, but did not continue on because of the casting-couch culture of Japanese anime.

The only surprising thing is that the japanese porn industry supposedly treats its actresses decently. But again, maybe she says that because she is currently working in that industry.

That and the Japanese tend to prefer to sweep unpleasant things under the rug and pretend it doesn’t exist or happen.

Female entertainer describes being assaults, harassed and coerced into sex for the promise of work by older producers.

Aside from the obvious piss poor behavior of the hosts, who apparently need to remember that Listen Carefully doesn’t mean what they seem to think it means, it is an interesting takeaway that the porn industry over there doesn’t have the casting couch issue ours does. Not what I expected.

Ya know I have a female friend who refuses to visit Japan because of their atrocious women’s rights and I can’t say I blame her. Maybe when they don’t have a need to have a women’s only subway car due to excessive groping problems can we say they’re finally on track.

For a show named “listen Carefully” they sure sucked at listening.

This is unfortunate but not surprising. The way the hosts were handling the situation seems pretty typical for the Japanese. Culturally this is kind of normal from my understanding, it’s up there with things like fan service in anime, which tends towards sexualizing young or youngish girls.  That and the Japanese tend…

Gotta agree: the handling on this particular segment was terrible, and as much as I’m certain the hosts intended it to be a step forward for women working in the sex industry, the fact that they tried to shut Yuzuki down on several occasions (and “you sure talk a lot” is just the polite way of saying “women are…

I’ve been fired many times in my life (usually shitty customer service jobs where THAT customer got on my last nerve), but the one that hurt the most was a job that was literally my dream job, that I loved with every fiber of my being. They told me I was a bad manager, and it just destroyed me, because I always…

To have something that is such a constant in your life pulled out from under you is SO...shocking, disorienting...it’s a type of grief, really, that loss. People SHOULD talk about it more. When I was younger, I had just started dating a guy I was CRAZY about. We were only a few months in, but I knew I loved him. One…

I actually really love that she’s talking about this. I had a shitty review at work this week, and feel like a total failure at life. To think that someone as respected and established as Juianne Moore could be fired kinda makes me think “you know what, no one is immune from this shit.” I know the shame she’s probably…

If you went back 10 years into my FB (I have a twitter but if you’re on twinja you know I never tweet anything) you would find a lot of embarrassing stuff...and yet, a conspicuous absence of the n word.  How was I able to do it as a wee college babe in the woods?!

The actual quote: “she burns facts and then she uses that ash to create a perfect smokey eye. Like maybe she’s born with it, maybe it’s lies. It’s probably lies.” How is saying someone has “perfect” makeup insulting her looks?

It’s called projection. They think she’s ugly and so they assume that everyone else is saying she’s ugly.

They’re being used as a fairly literal human shield for the president.

It’s not. It’s merely a successful reframing device effectively employed by mealy-mouthed jokes like Mika Brzezinski and Maggie Haberman.

Michelle Wolf didn’t actually make fun of Sanders’ looks, though. The actual quote: “she burns facts and then she uses that ash to create a perfect smokey eye. Like maybe she’s born with it, maybe it’s lies. It’s probably lies.” How is saying someone has “perfect” makeup insulting her looks?

The music industry is controlled by men. That’s why they allow this behavior.