Takuya Kimura [...] announced in November 2000 that he was marrying pop star and actress Shizuka Kudo. They had a daughter the following May.

Wow, and I thought artists stuck to labels in the US had it bad...

I think you’re looking at it wrong. All those people who have a stigma against video games: what are they doing instead? Probably watching sports or something pointless on TV; if they are reading, I doubt it’s anything substantial, anything that will change their lives materially. Everyone is doing something that’s…

Please disseminate between the clueless boomer parents among yourselves.

You need to ask yourself this Bloodr0se: Why would women feel the need to go to a place to be nerd without men?

Considering the issues with molestation in Japan, I think it’s fine for women to have a safe place to hang out.

but they generally do more harm than good IMHO.

yes

Friendly reminder that government watchlists are bullshit. 4-year-olds have been put on no-fly lists. Nothing worth putting stock in.

It’s not really an overeaction when it happens time and time again in different contexts to a select group of people.

Fellow queer person here. The amount of times I’ve seen “you just want something to be offended about” makes me so sad. I wish I could go on the Internet, consume mass media, go outside without my very identity being questioned, minimized, or dehumanized. I wish I didn’t have to be offended, but if queer folks didn’t…

This. I’m tired of being told by straight people what I am and am not allowed to feel offended by. What is abs is not homophobic.

Ooph, this is a lot of circumstantial “context” to explain away an event which is still in effect having the exact same problem as people object to.

Living in Japan, Japan is quite often very homophobic in mainstream entertainment. Although in this case, it’s rather harmless and we’ll have to wait to see the translation to be honest but I think people just misconstrued the intentions of the writers here.

Alright, entitled, middle-class white males, this lady is going to give you a lesson in terminology and reality.