Let’s not veer into the horrors that actual women have had to and still are going through and stick to the fictional ones.

You don’t have to be that cruel. You don’t even need to make him work. Give him like 2.5k a month and make him try to live with that. Heck, make it 5k. I bet he still can’t do it.

I haven’t been proven right or wrong. I merely mentioned that people routinely profess admiration for well known figures and that they should be judged on what they actually do and not whatever offhand comment they may make. That would be the rational way to see things. Her policies are progressive and will affect…

Had you bothered to read the Wiki, you’d know they source their claims by linking to the party’s platform, which is about as objective as you can get for someone who doesn’t read Japanese.

True, but she might see this position as a stepping stone. For now, though, you’re right, her biggest connection to anything remotely related to foreign anything will be organizing those Olympic Games.

Well, if Wiki says so how can it possibly not be fact? And news outlets are never known to fret needlessly for ratings so, of course, she’ll be Abe’s puppet even though she got elected in spite of his lack of support and owes him nothing.

I think that’s a really ignorant viewpoint from somebody that literally knows nothing about Japanese politics and just assumes that Liberal Democrats mean the same thing in Japan as they do in the US.

Seriously? Is this like all your Presidents being members of some secret society at their college is supposed to mean something, too.

Per Tuppu Glossp below:

“Hooray! Japanese women can now be far right thugs just like the men!”

She’s LDP. They all think Japan wasn’t trying hard enough in WW2 and would like a do-over.

It’s a weird idea for people who don’t have much, but wealth & affluence correspond pretty weakly with actual happiness. People who are self made millionaires tend to be somewhat happy because they’ve worked hard to get there and they’re doing what they like, but their spoiled kids are just looking for a way to buy…

A story about Peter and Harry Brant from the comments of a 2012 Jezebel story about Peter (http://jezebel.com/i-once-sat-in-…), which I immediately thought of because the amount of utterly clueless privilege is just painful:

“Oooh baby, take me to Ikea!”

Preach! Preach! When I first saw Caitlyn come out as trans (something I had done myself only 8-9 months earlier), my heart did flips and I was in love...I was happy that we were finally getting the positivity, education, and awareness our movement desperately needed. I was even willing to overlook that she…

Yeah, it must be such an honor to get soaked in the name of protecting her fur coat.

My first choice is Sanders, but my second choice isn’t Clinton, who shares a great many of Sanders’s policy positions, but Johnson, who shares none of Sanders’s policy positions. Because we can’t betray the revolution (which apparently has no substantive policy goals). Also, I like that Sanders and Johnson are both…

Walter Cronkite would be proud of the jezebel investigative reporters for uncovering the “stunt” of an organized distribution of signs at the DNC convention. Yes, the organized distribution of placards has been standard operating procedure at political conventions for decades, but the reporters for jezebel don’t know…