The Japanese government has published this curious poster warning of the dangers of domestic violence, for some inexplicable reason illustrating it rather tastefully in manga style with a fierce looking lady.
The actual content of the poster, published under the auspices of the Cabinet Office, is probably best ignored – it claims 10.8% of married women are victims of “domestic violence,” but the results are based solely on a survey of women, with traditional and highly reprehensible “physical violence” lumped in together with the exceedingly ambiguous “psychological attacks” and “sexual demands.”
Or in other words, the number is made up to make the problem seem terribly bad and justify some agency’s budget.
This does not answer the question as to just why a manga style illustration was chosen for the poster however…
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If it would at last have some color. With that lack of colors it sure won't get much attention.
When the government puts out "artwork" it's called propaganda.
I say beat your wife like she's done something to deserve it!
Good, support your government and make those stats real!
wats wrong with husband fuck his own wife?
nowadays everything is wrong of expecting sex in a relationship, but don't get me wrong it's okay to cheat on them *both sexes see the post about japan's high cheating rates* unless you get caught then the other side gets pissy even though they're fucking someone else too.
tl;dr it's okay to fuck people other than your partner, but not okay to fuck them
it's probably because they're hearing moans and groans coming from the house and call it domestic violence.. so 10.8% of married women are actually 'victims' of sex..
Well, if you're a fucktard that can't do anything without threatening.
As a man, I find your comment insulting. I hope you mishandle your dick and hurt it enough to get a necrosis.
Still feeding the trolls are we? My,my people never learn ^_^;
Who want's to learn?
Feeding the trolls is fun though! If I weren't so lazy I'd do it.
you know, maybe the government finally noticed that the general public would respond much better to a 2D representation of a women rather than to a 3D pig-ugly.
yea rig-
Actually, I think you may be onto something here....
Obviously, the women are ignoring that Domestic Violence goes both ways.
Forcing the husband to pay for lunch and sex WITHIN A HOUSEHOLD, cutting daily expenses, not doing their 'job' as the housewife and not treating marriage beyond a sign of status? If anything, these are all INACTIONS which cause the spouse to come to harm which is effectively a form of Domestic Violence (psychological or otherwise).
Especially if they throw out their husband's Love Plus.
or the stats might include 2d characters as well
If 2D was included, stat would be much, much higher.
maybe after someone made a doujin about it, then it will be popular?
10.8% of women should have just shut the fuck up.
Well it makes sense that it's only asked by women, I mean, the ones who did it wouldn't admit it, or they wouldn't consider it violence.
Nevertheless, women tend to be more sensible for this stuff, so the facts may be a bit warped.
Ten out of a hundred of women get beat.
Seems reasonable for me, because 10 violent men out of 100 is quite logical.
"Well it makes sense that it's only asked by women, I mean, the ones who did it wouldn't admit it, or they wouldn't consider it violence."
->As hard as it could be to heard ,but there's also men victims of “domestic violence”.
i am a male and have been the victim of domestic violence. my ex used to beat me up everyday, finally i decided i'd had enough and moved 2hrs away from her just to know i was safe. as a result of this and other contributing factors i have been single ever since...
What the hell?
You need to grow some balls dude.
Or are you messing with us?
I though Robocop had a ball of steel. :V
You just ruined my childhood hero, you wimp!
Accept it. Every hero has their ordinary life's secret.
Wait, don't you guys watched the Robocop 2nd movie? He got gangraped by a group of people including one shota in that one..
And now we know why domestic violence against males is underreported.
you have no proof of this, where's that stats?
Well, actually I've heard of the recent studies that women actually seem to be more commonly the offensive party, however, it is commonly overlooked, for the men do not see the women as much as a threat, and in the cases they are seen as a threat, the men are actully more reluctant to bring this forth, in a fear of being labeled "sissy".
They are more offensive but they don't really hurt you. Females will faster give you a little slap in the face when they are mad but that can't be really called violence...
they might blow up your balls though, if you're not careful
Just like how restraining her hands with enough force to leave a mark can't be called violence. If they're not thrashing to get free so hard then the holder wouldn't need to use that much force to restrain them.
Also the new politically correct word (and somewhat negative and thus offensive) for sissy is herbivorous.
If I remember correctly there was a study in germany stating that 25% of women had experienced violence in a relationship ( can't remember if it was purely physical violence, but with those numbers, I doubt it), and 23% of the men.
I wonder how many Japanese men report getting the shit beaten out of them by their wives? Or report emotional or verbal abuse? o_O
Considering the whole value placed on saving face there, I'd say probably not a lot. Less than the women obviously.
That's because humans are hardwired to feel less pain when the offender is a female, rather than a male. Test after test has shown this.
We just filter out or at least, filter down the violence that women do. Even though studies show that women are much more violent than men, and most women start the domestic violence, it is the man we punish, because of that inbuilt bias filter.
Of course, most of the world feels that it is proper for men to beat women and keep them in their place. Heck, outside of the US and Canada, it is still rather accepted behavior in the western world. Women get uppity, they disrespect you by hitting you, knifing you, or insulting you in front of others, you beat her ass. If you feel bad about beating her down, then you roll her over and rape her. Only in the US and Canada do we have a strong custom of defending her and taking her side, but the "equal rights" movement has been putting an end to that. You treat her like any man that hits you, insults you, or tries to knife you. So even in America, social expectations and behavior towards women are returning to "world norms".
I didn't think people got married in Japan anymore.
Only the young generations but there are way more old people then young ones existing.
There's no real basis for such 1:1 correlation. One men could have a violent behaviour with multiple women/mistresses/...
And the reported percentage is only the part of woman who reported these attacks. Given the threat that can pose the reported actions ("Tell this to anyone and you're dead !"), it's probable that that the percentage can be superior, if the initial one was right.
This site bases some assumptions on surveys with a certain targeted demogrphic...
being a violent person doesn't mean you direct that violence towards your partner. it can also be used to overprotect her/him.
and the problem with perspective here is what you can expect from the partner. even if you yourself are not very susceptible to violence, it doesn't neccessarily mean the partner sees it the same way.
it also depends greatly on your relationship: if you are on good terms with someone, you can pack way more beating from them than from someone you don't know/like.
it does make a lot of sense to include psychological and sexual abuse here, as they cause much more permanent damage than physical.
Quote by Rethardus:
"Well it makes sense that it's only asked by women, I mean, the ones who did it wouldn't admit it, or they wouldn't consider it violence."
I'm slightly confused as to what you're insinuating here. Are you saying it makes sense that only women were asked because you believe that males are the only ones capable of committing domestic abuse? The last time I checked that wasn't the case. Please correct me if I'm wrong on this one.
no i think it meant you'd ask WOMEN for the percentage of WOMEN getting the domestic violence. cuz i think the males would be less honest or doesn't consider some of the things he did as violence
Quote by marids "no i think it meant you'd ask WOMEN for the percentage of WOMEN getting the domestic violence. cuz i think the males would be less honest or doesn't consider some of the things he did as violence"
He is asking if WOMEN are the only victims. Not saying men won't report their crimes, but women would be the same way...
The manga picture is probably because no woman in Japan would actually stand up and model for this poster as the government probably wanted some beat up housewife photo.
It takes the guro out and makes it much simpler, and I feel it's more compelling.
Though I have to say, such a campaign would be much more useful in Africa. Judging from Sankaku's previous reports on herbivorous men and powerful pocket-money-pinching wives, I say the figures might be a bit exagerrated.
The manga picture? Maybe someone in the cabinet has a thing for tsundere.
At least that was the first thought that occurred to my mind, with that picture, and the words 'domestic violence'.
the expression surely grabs my attention...
I'd hit it.
A lot.
feels more like they are advertising a new manga to me
because they are using those funny squiggles for writing, right?
idiot!
Shouldn't it be the other way around?Men being victims of domestic violence ?
Hence,the picture is actually a trap.
Save the traps!!!
Since I see no bust, I can hardly say you're wrong.
"This does not answer the question as to just why a manga style illustration was chosen for the poster however…"
Probably because hentai has a ton of rape content, and they're trying to deflect excessive criticism from global feminist groups. I mean really, don't act like you can't see the link when this site is a hentai focused site and runs stories every other day about some woman in Japan that got totally abused so people can get off on it.
Perhaps, or you just think too hard about it. Maybe they just simply prefer doing it that way, I wonder if they even rip off that face from a certain manga.
Manga artists in japan are pretty cheap so a rip off just would cost them much more money then paying a manga artist.
Yeah, that's true. It just seems like a big coincidence to me if that's the case, but coincidences do exist.
Think about the paper woman's feelings. They've forced her to show her face. They should rip the posters off and get her consent in writing before they draw her face.
the manga illustration is cheap to make, question answered
So, what's their plan to do with all this “domestic violence” problem ??? They can't just leave a poster there, then go home and sleep, can they ???
It's an awareness campaign. And i think that's a phone number on that poster there ;D
that's a really long phone number. thank god for mobile phones.
That's a ten-digit number, which is the same length as phone numbers in the US and Canada these days.
Forty years ago, I could dial 8-5443 and get my neighbor, but there were far fewer people and far fewer phones back then.
In Europe they can get even longer, including standard mobile numbers, though you have these short numbers for special purposes. (But it's usually things like ringtone downloads and not these kind of services.)
I see, so they gather supporter for their next move, it make sense here.
Hey man, you don't know that the stats are made up. Perhaps they are, perhaps they aren't, and 10.8% isn't that high anyway; not high enough to be suspect. Anecdotally, I'd say it's lower than I expected.
Incidentally, men also get abused. Heck, it's close to 5% in the United States-- and that's of victims who actually bring it to light, so the actual value is likely quite higher, given that men are less likely to admit being victims. Why on Earth would Japan having a 10.8% DV rate be unbelievable to you?
It's a nice illustration though.
No, don't be mistaken yourself. 10.8% _is_ the actual stats of women reporting of DV. It's just ambiguous in a way, because it considers psychological acts and sexual demands as DV too, not just physical violence.
i must question those psychological attacks,not all.
Do they think it's a psychological attack when they are being ignorant and don't say that they are wrong.
Then the man says something back(like parents would),this is mostly if he cares for her and all and she doesn't show any thanks or just being selfish(child).
Garbage-in, garbage-out.
The questionable parts are not the statistics obtained, but the individual responses which make up this value (i.e. the women themselves).
>sexual demands
rape is also a form of abuse, you dumb fuck.
my father raped my mother. you could hear her telling him "no, don't" through the walls and him saying "shut up" at night. she would be covered in bruises. he beat her and his children and threatened to kill us at least once a week. they're still married and they've been together for over 30 years. she's never admitted it or told anyone about it. the one time she was confronted about it by my sister, she just said "don't ever tell any of your siblings;" her expression was panicked. but most of us know about it.
Stopping real violence with manga, sure thats better than stopping manga violence.
Eila Ilmatar Juutilanen.., is that you?
Eila: "Stop looking at Sanya like that!!!"
I love that scene :P
Here's some [http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm4916974] therapies [http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm6047334] .. :3
If Eila is against domestic violence I am against domestic violence.
Seconded
first gouverment law:
fight with any chimeres not with criminals inside gouverment!!!
To me, domestic violence it bad. It doesn't matter whether it's woman on man or man on woman.
I that Agnes-chan?
"This does not answer the question as to just why a manga style illustration was chosen for the poster however…"
It's japan. It's as simple as that.
Although the pic of that "woman" doesn't really illustrate what they're trying to point out. I mean, she looks mean...
How long until there is hentai of the girl on the poster? She looks like she likes it rough.
I wouldn't describe her as mean looking, more like someone with a lot of self-confidence, which is something people who put up with domestic abuse lack.
The girl in the picture looks more likely to be the violent one in a relationship. The should try not going for a tsundere look next time.
10.8% of women need to learn to shut the fuck up.
You are either a virgin or like to be fucked up the ass, which is it?
You'd have to ask his cellmate.
The 2006 study on Domestic violence done by Haifa University (Israel) in cooperation with NYU (New York), covered 32 countries. Like most Asian countries, it shows that the myth of the meek Japanese woman is exactly that..... a myth. Breakdown of Japanese DV went like this: Male on Female violence: 7.6%, Female on Male violence: 11.5%, mutual (both parties participated in violence), 80.1 %. So we can see that in Japan the vast majority of domestic violence (over 92%) involves women as a batterer. This would make their use of an angry woman in the ad completely understandable. That's the main DV culprit in Japan.
Nice work on that info. I love it how statistics and logic always prevail over propaganda, so long as the individual is willing to find the truth. Too bad the average Jane and Joe don't bother.
Well, you know. The abuse on thousands of women in manga land has gone unabated for decades now and it is truly high time to call out to all manga drawn men to lay off the wife pounding (in all forms!).
I do see where the females who marry manic depressive alcoholics probably get the crap beat out of them three times a day, if thats what the story is talking about. It's always been that way and I cannot understand the draw which pulls the females to those type of males. The males are usually con-artists with their real feelings as well, since they gain pleasure from repeatedly beating their family members.
well i do prefer the manga approach, if you would see
the buses with pictures of battered women all around you would understand.
it was especially annoying since the women potrayed in
the ads were quite well educated and respectable memebers of society.
it made me wander how, if they are so well educated and have a good economical position, end up choosing a caveman/thug as a partner.
Japan is doing a fine job of reducing domestic violence. As we speak, the marriage rate is collapsing. Pretty soon there will be no more husbands to commit domestic violence, or raise a family for that matter. Good job Japan!
If the poster is about women being the victims of abuse, why does SHE look likes she's about to hurt someone?
Oh come on. It's not like because of manga Your husband is going to use Kamekameha to DV you. But if that really happens..... Scary~
Somehow, that sounds like a form of rough sex...
am I the only one seeing Sakaki on the pic?
Domestic Violence... by the cats?
Even if they all came at once, not sure if want.
They do it manga style because everything in Japan is done that way. They turned the aflac duck into an anime cat wearing a duck costume for god sakes... I loves Japan =D
Oh, they still use the original Aflac duck in their commercials, although they toned down the annoying quality of the voice, thank God. ^_^;;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D38U1xCbN7I
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/05/08/entertainment/main552921.shtml
... no offense, Mr. Gottfried... >_>
Just to be clear:
Corporal Punishment (i.e. the use of physical force on a person as a serious form of discipline) is not the same as Domestic Violence unlike what some believe. Logically, whether the former was inevitable is completely up to the individual(s) at the scene. Sadly, victims of pain are more than likely prone to making shit up, therefore raising some bad press despite it being blatant lies.
Society sure has bred a generation of weak-willed people.
"男女共同参画推進本部"って所は左翼の影響力が半端ない
所なんだな。鳩山左派政権になって、勢いづいてるんだろ
う。
あーあと自民党が児童ポルノ法の成立に躍起になってるのは、主に北朝鮮系のUnderground moneyを潰す為。北朝鮮と
仲の良い民主党がこの法律に消極的だったのは、それが
理由なのさ。けど、先導されたオタ共が邪魔をして成立が
困難になってしまったんだけど。ここでも話題になっていた
事があったんで知らせておこう。
WOAH GUYS. I WAS JUST ABOUT TO TAKE A SWING AT MY WOMAN WHEN I SAW THAT FACE. STOPPED ME DEAD IN MY TRACKS.
WOAH GUYS. I WAS ABOUT TO TYPE A SARCASTIC REPLY TO SOME GUY ON THE INTERNET WHEN I SAW HIS AVATAR. STOPPED ME DEAD IN MY TRACKS.
The illustration is to illustrate the problem...
I mean really, if you had to come home to that expression every night, you'd try and slap it off her face too.
she's got that face coz she's not in the kitchen!
...it claims 10.8% of married women are victims of “domestic violence,” but the results are based solely on a survey of women, with traditional and highly reprehensible “physical violence” lumped in together with the exceedingly ambiguous “psychological attacks” and “sexual demands.”
Abused women would be many times more likely to do the survey then unabused women. That, including the vague naming for these other supposedly related 'types of domestic violence', and I'm actually surprised that the figure was only 10.8%
If anything, this tells me DV must be quite low indeed.
Domestic Violence against women is a major social problem in Japan. There is an article from the Japan Times, 7th November 2009, on the subject that is worth taking a look called "Speaking out about Domestic Violence":
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20091107f1.html
A Cabinet Office survey released this year found that a quarter of all married women in Japan have experienced physical violence, and one in three has suffered verbal and psychological abuse.
Police handled 25,210 cases of domestic violence last year, up by 20 percent from 2007 and the largest number since surveys began in 2002. Activists say those statistics, and the 77 domestic homicides reported in 2008, are an underestimate.
"The issue is hidden because many women are too frightened or ashamed to speak out," explained Fumi Suzuki, a lawyer and director of the Chiba-based Allies Law Office, which gives legal advice to battered wives. "Partly because of that, spousal abuse has a very low profile in Japan."
... yeah, I have to agree.
Knowing Japan's conservative nature of "minding their own business" and "keeping to themselves", there is indeed a high chance that more serious cases of DV goes unreported regardless of whether the husband or wife is at fault (in the case of the latter, an example case is when the wife has backup from friends as seen in the LovePlus example when they did searches on the ones they suspect. It would not be surprising if threats were made this way too).
Heck, even for locals, something as trivial as asking for directions is troublesome; I found myself ignored several times just asking for the nearest train station in Tokyo (the general public in Oosaka and Kyoto is much, much nicer, thankfully).
As in all countries in the world, there is a lot of domestic violence in Japan too. For anyone interested in the severe problems faced by victims of domestic violence in Japan check out this report in April this year from Al Jazeera's Tony Birtley reports from Tokyo on the women who are speaking out about the problem.
http://www.mefeedia.com/entry/japanese-women-hit-back-at-domestic-abuse-25-apr-09/17189639
Although the report is well done well researched it seems to imply at the end that nothing is going to chance for a long time about the problem of domestic violence in Japan.
Here, as in any other country in the world historically, there has been domestic violence in all types of societies, not in the least of course in societies and cultures that have taken a sexist ('paternalistic') view that women were not as equal as men and could be beaten and suffer abuse at the hands of their husbands.
Now, thanks to the work of volunteer women's groups and activist lawyers in Japan who have worked hard against this problem of violence against women and children in their homes, the Japanese government enacted the Act on the Prevention of Spousal Violence and the Protection of Victims in 2001. This was the first official recognition by Japanese politicians and law makers in Japanese history that domestic violence is in fact a crime. As a first step it was an important recognition of the widespread problem of spousal violence against women in Japanese homes throughout Japan. However there was considerable criticism that the low financial fines on Japanese husbands who attack their wives and the limit of only 1 month long restraining orders on men who abused their wives and children did not go far enough to provide Japanese women with a credible degree of legal protection and safety from further violent attacks. The law was revised to some extent in 2004 but still met with criticism as not going far enough to protect the victims of domestic and also for not focusing on the men who are being violent toward their wives and children:
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20041204f2.html
Amendments to the Domestic Violence Prevention Act were passed and became law in July 2007 but did not receive so much attention in the media as would have been desirable:
http://tokyocounseling.blog.com/4785391/
However more and more Japanese women are taking action in Japan and, like the women featured in the video above, are no longer to suffer without protest former generations have had to do without any effective legal protection. The following links are to articles on domestic violence and National Police Agency reports that have appeared in the media this year that show that modern Japanese women in 21st century Japan are standing up against violent husbands and using the existing laws to protect themselves and their children:
http://tokyocounseling.blog.com/4723531/
http://tokyocounseling.blog.com/4857497/
These brave women need and deserve stronger and even more effective legal protection for themselves and the children they are trying to protect from their own fathers hands. There needs also to be considerable public and national political will focused on providing Japanese wives and partners with safe emergency residences and legally protected abuse shelters. I think it is also of vital importance that serious decisions to provide and implement official funding to ensure that refuge and protection to all women who are suffering domestic violence of all forms.
Andrew Grimes
Tokyo Counseling Services
http://tokyocounseling.com/english/
http://tokyocounseling.com/jp/
http://counselingjapan.com/
My favourite poster still seems to be up on the Shinakansen platforms of Kyoto station. It depicts a schoolgirl, policewoman and policeman in an illustrated style. It's warning people not to take pictures of schoolgirls with their phones, but the best part is that the policewoman is just standing there looking pissed, whilst the policeman is speeding quickly towards the viewer holding the phone.
Sure, police are gender-friendly, but it's the men who do all the work still, yeah? Apparently so.