Joanna
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
> Joanna wrote:
>
>> Wo, mama! If this is what the Lolita girls are wearing...
>> > <http://www.babyssb.co.jp/order/op/op.html> --
>> ..and I saw a grown woman wearing something like this, I'd think of
>> only one thing: SEX, or to be more precise: FUCKING. Probably would
>> wish I could grow a dick to do it.
>> Backing off a bit, it looks like very high-price pussy. Probably have
>> to marry it.
>
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> The Wall Street Journal article that Doug posted shows that men as
> well as women in Japan are not allured but repulsed by the "Lolita"
> look, which they seem to find creepy and freaky -- creepier and
> freakier than punk! -- rather than sexy, much less marriageable:
> "Despite the nation's reputation as a culture with a love of all
> things cute, many in mainstream Japan are contemptuous of the Lolita
> look. Fans of the style talk about being called stupid by strangers,
> getting mean looks and having chewing gum stuck to the backs of their
> dresses. Ms. Otani, the store clerk, says her clothes get so many
> stares that her boyfriend, who dresses in punk fashion, won't go out
> with her unless she wears something else" (Ginny Parker, "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'
> WSJ, September 17, 2004,
> <http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk/Week-of-Mon-20040913/020622.html>).
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