- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, H, News
- Date: Feb 5, 2010 16:31 JST
- Tags: Censorship, Dead or Alive, Eroge, Feminism, Mizugi, Oppai, PSP, USA, Voyeurism


The USA’s top game censorship body, the ESRB, has been condemned for publishing a heavily jaundiced rating of PSP micro-bikini simulator Dead or Alive Paradise, accusing the game of being “cheesy,” having “creepy voyeurism” and containing “bizarre, misguided notions of what women really want” by portraying them cavorting in bikinis on the beach.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: International, News
- Date: Jan 5, 2010 22:33 JST
- Tags: Bizarre, Crime, Feminism, France, Law, Marriage, Misandry, Politics, Relationships

France is set to enact a ban on “psychological violence” occurring between couples, with accusations of insults and verbal abuse leading to criminal prosecutions.
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Tired of the relentless attacks on freedom of expression launched by anti-free speech feminists, anti-censorship group Yes to Freedom has been formed to defend the liberties of artists, and they have just created their new mascot Freedom-tan.
Appropriately enough, she is a schoolgirl…
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“Videogames are not art. They are extreme pornography,” rants the UK leader of Equality Now in response to the notion that adult themes should be allowed in games.
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60% of Japanese women questioned in a recent survey report “turning into men,” with 70% reporting “there are men more feminine than I am around me” and 94% “I’d like to become more womanly.”
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A court preparing to try four men for a brutal gang rape has attracted criticism for excluding half the candidates for jury duty for such reasons as the fact that they were thought to have a “harsh attitude to sex crimes,” in the end settling on an all-male panel of 9.
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A recent survey of what professions Japanese parents would like to see their children undertake seems to suggest that the nation’s parents overwhelmingly have it in mind to raise a generation of civil servants…
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Manga, News
- Date: Nov 20, 2009 21:10 JST
- Tags: Censorship, Crime, Feminism, Law, Loli, Lolicon, Philippines, Politics, Religion

The Philippines has based a draconian ban on child pornography which means a potential life sentence for possessing books, comics or artwork considered by authorities to depict a child involved in sexual activity.
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“Carnivorous” women, the female counterpart to “herbivorous men,” are seen by many to be eschewing traditional femininity just as effete men are confounding traditional masculinity, but just what is a carnivorous woman? A survey of Japanese men and women provides some answers as to how they perceive them.
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The increasingly popular practice of surgically reshaping the female genitalia in order to create the “perfect vagina” has come under sharp criticism by medical experts, who claim the practice is akin to female genital mutilation and has little medical necessity.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Manga, News
- Date: Nov 7, 2009 01:18 JST
- Tags: Crime, Feminism, Main, Marketing, Marriage, Moe, Politics, Relationships, Statistics, Suicide

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.
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The World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report 2009 has ranked Japan as being the developed nation with the least amount of gender equality, ranking it below such nations as China in a report which claims to “assess countries on how well they are dividing their resources and opportunities among their male and female populations.”
The rest of the report throws up some odd rankings…
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