Razor Ramon HG
 | Kurohi-gei Kiki Ippatsu, Razor Ramon HG Tomy Sales rank : See details at Amazon.co.jp |
...For example, TBS's personality Razor Ramon HG (Hard Gay), is a straight man pretending to be gay by wearing leather bondage and cruising around thrusting hips all over the place. And last month, toy company Tomy released "Kurohi-gei Kiki Ippatsu," a game where Razor Ramon hides in a barrel in which the player stabs plastic swords until he pops out of the top. Some believe if there is ever a hope of gaining same-sex legal rights in Japan, Razor Ramon isn't the best image to portray the gay community.
"We're correcting the false stereotypes like Razor Ramon that show a lack of respect and understanding and we are trying to educate Japanese people about the advances in gay rights around the world," says Hiroshi Mochizuki, editor in chief of Gay Japan News, an online media service established about a year ago that currently gets about 50,000 hits per day.
"The lack of knowledge is the biggest problem. At this point we're bringing people together."...
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?fl20060117zg.htm
Basically, Japanese people don't have the concept of "Politically Correctness" in their minds. So, offensive statements of a racist or chauvinistic character are almost routine among Japanese skinheads and CD's of White Power bands are being offered on Yahoo Japan Corp's auction site. What a shame.
posted by Toshi @ 11:45 AM
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hi, i hope i don't trouble you. i've been trying to find ways to get in contact. i think you write very intellectually and am an admirer. i was curious about something you posted on some other forum, it was a picture of smutty smith's kats and tats book. unfortunately, i'm not too smart and don't understand japanese, is there a way i could get that book? keep up with the writing.
xoxo
It's very interesting to see how the skinhead subculture has evoloved in other countries. It's surprising to me that the skinhead subculture has become what it has in Japan.
So there are very little traditional and/or SHARP skinheads in Japan then? That's a shame!
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