A rural Japanese town voted its sole female councillor out of her seat after she accused its mayor of sexual assault. The public referendum over whether she had damaged the town’s reputation highlighted the backlash against women who come forward with allegations of sexual abuse

Eggyweggys1 · 2020-12-18T04:09:40+00:00

This is kind of up in the it since we don't know if it happened. However as ugly s it is, if your constituency doesn't support you for whatever reason....democracy is ugly

IsThis_A_username · 2020-12-18T04:08:54+00:00

There was no investigation and if it was true was determined by popular vote. This is not PPD as it could be true. Japan has a major rape culture problem, so I would not rush to conclusions.

Edit: This is what I have been told by my Japanese friends both male and female,

In Japan rapes rarely get reported because in our culture if a woman has been rapes she is used and disgraced and is not fit for marriage. I am no expert just saying what I know.

Past-Difficulty6785 · 2020-12-22T04:58:55+00:00

Doesn't really seem like a PPD at all.

For one thing, we have no idea what happened.

Secondly, in many Asian nations, the culture is that that kind of thing just doesn't happen (no matter how often it does)

Thirdly, how did she use her pussy to gain an advantage or to get unfair privilege?

Not a captain save-a-ho here but just because a woman breathes doesn't mean it's a PPD when she holds her breath.

Auntie_Hero · 2020-12-18T18:31:58+00:00

So we're just going forward with the assumption that her accusation is 100% proven? Is this a r/lostredditor?

2020-12-19T01:58:55+00:00

Not quite PPD. More like culture-clash we don't quite grok.

antifeminist3 · 2020-12-22T19:53:09+00:00

Go to the police and file a complaint. If you do not go to the police and just publically make an accusation, you do not want justice, you want to smear your target. This is the law in most jurisdictions.

I recognize that feminists want to change this law so you can just use the female style aggression tactic of reputation sabotage without administering justice. You will notice that not only is there no justice in this latter case, but if the target of the reputation sabotage is actually guilty of rape, then that person will stay out of jail and can rape again. I would like to ask a feminist how this is a good thing... Why is keeping a rapist out of jail good?

PrinceBBGuy · 2020-12-22T09:28:06+00:00

I feel like...this probably does not belong here.

sylbug · 2020-12-18T23:21:49+00:00

They Streisand it and no one names the damn town - Kusatsu.

Rook_Cross · 2021-02-18T19:14:02+00:00

My guess is she was telling the truth. They don't like causing trouble in Japan, even when they are wronged, better to just take it, so that if she came forward it was probably true and she would be the one to take the heat for bringing negative attention to the town, for speaking of it openly, rather than the mayor for doing it in the first place. Japan is not the West, women aren't throwing around false accusations the way they are here. This is likely an injustice.

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