>Wall Street Journal - September 17, 2004
>
>The Little-Girl Look
>Is Big in Japan Now
>-- Among the Brave
>'Lolitas' Dress as Baby Dolls,
>And Take a Lot of Guff;
>'This Is the Real Me'
>
>By GINNY PARKER
>Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
<snip>
>A major influence in the current boom is Novala Takemoto, a writer
>and champion of Lolitas who describes them as women embarking on a
>soul-searching journey in the face of social scorn. The writer is
>also one of the biggest rarities in Lolita culture -- a man.
>
>The spiky-haired Mr. Takemoto, whose first name is a pseudonym, has
>achieved cult status for writing several novels featuring Lolitas,
>including a big seller about a lonely Lolita in rural Japan who
>meets a bad girl biker and discovers true friendship. The novel has
>become the basis for a popular movie, whose English title is
>"Kamikaze Girls." The producers are seeking a distributor in the U.S.
Pretty soon, Quentin Tarantino or someone like him would buy rights to "Kamikaze Girls" (the novel and the film based on it <http://www.shimotsuma-movie.jp/>) and turn it into a blockbuster film.
>Anyway I guarantee you this Japanese dress-up thing's a thousand
>times more about wanting sometimes not to be grown up, playing as
>little kids instead, than about pandering to some sweaty old male's
>nasty fetish.
>
>Yours WDK - WKiernan at ij.net
From a class angle, it may be a defiant gesture: since you don't pay me like an adult, I won't dress like one! -- Yoshie
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