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South Korean DJ 'shocked and scared' after groping at Japan event (www.japantimes.co.jp)
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DJ Soda, who has more than 5 million Instagram followers, took to social media platforms to slam the unidentified individuals involved.

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[+] -54 points 3 years ago (39 children)

Woah woah hold on there buddy. You wouldn't blame Australia when some Australians are sexual assaulters would you?

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  • [+] 71 points 3 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (10 children)
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  • [–] 10 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    Victim blaming is common. This is a systemic problem

    This, I agree with.

    Lack of effort to stop sexual assault in Japan is well documented.

    For this, I'd like to see the documentation you cite.

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  • [–] -1 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    This is specifically for train groping, for one, and literally has a whole section on what they are doing about it. I specifically wanted to know what was being cited here:

    Lack of effort to stop sexual assault in Japan is well documented.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    a perfect example

    I specifically was asking for documentation about "Lack of effort to stop sexual assault in Japan is well documented". The article provided mentions the efforts they are making.

    I suppose you could do a basic web search. Meh.

    You make the claim, you provide the evidence.

    The actual reason I ask is that, if this specific sort of thing exists, it would be good to specifically target and fight it.

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  • [–] -4 points 3 years ago

    Yes, it's like that in much of the world. Australian laws until recently silenced SA survivors for example as I linked down below. It's good that you're learning about it and engaging with it. Rape culture must be stopped world over.

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  • [+] -17 points 3 years ago* (3 children)

    Lack of effort to stop sexual assault in Japan is well documented. Victim blaming is common. This is a systemic problem

    this is literally true to everywhere on earth

    and if you didn’t know, then now you do.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago

    Yes and some places (like Japan) are even worse.

    They have women only passenger trains on the subway because they need to not because they want to. Those don’t exist in most western countries that I know of.

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  • [–] [S] 44 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    I mean, I read this and went, “Goddammit, Osaka,” when I read where this takes place, and I live in Osaka.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Ahhh, that sucks to hear. It seemed like such a nice place while there, but I guess that's benefits of tourism. All of the cool parts, not around long enough for the bad :(

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I mean, the vast majority of people here are not committing sexual assault. There is certainly work to be done with the justice system regarding reporting and prosecuting crimes, but it's not like Japan or Osaka or Tokyo just condone SA.

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  • [–] 28 points 3 years ago (19 children)

    Australia doesn't have a well known problem with groping women on public transit as far as I'm aware.

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  • [+] -26 points 3 years ago (18 children)

    I specifically mentioned Australia due to its rampant rape culture. Just because you're not aware of it doesn't mean it's not happening.

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  • [–] 24 points 3 years ago (15 children)

    Just because I'm not aware of it also doesn't make the original post from False any less unexpected, I acknowledge my own ignorance but the point still stands. If it becomes known enough world-wide that Australia does indeed have a rampant SA problem that it become associated with the country as part of it's "culture", then it won't be any weirder to so a "Sigh, Australia..." when an article comes up talking about it.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago

    I think the point he was making is it’s never good to assume the whole country is like this when it’s individuals doing it, and I have to say I agree. That’s the kind of reasoning that led to people attacking Russian-American businesses and homes when the Ukraine invasion started

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  • [+] -26 points 3 years ago (13 children)

    It is known world-wide. Western media has been covering it for years. I don't live in Australia and I know about it.

    Minimizing the rape culture of Australia only hurts its victims.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 years ago (7 children)

    Literally no one is doing that. There was no excuses or apologies made for sexual assault taking place in other places. There was no "minimizing" the fact that it happens elsewhere. You are perceiving a slight from nothing, or at best a short post of exasperation that it happened again.

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  • [+] -11 points 3 years ago* (6 children)

    When I say minimizing, I don't mean you personally making excuses or apologies for SA. Of course you wouldn't do that.

    I'm referring to the societal minimization where despite years of news and research, people still don't acknowledge it as a widespread problem.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago* (5 children)

    because people don't know about it?
    it's not like we didn't acknowledge it out of malice.

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  • [–] -3 points 3 years ago* (4 children)

    Exactly comrade. It's not active malice, but the the lack of acknowledgement that constitute much of rape culture.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    It seems you didn't quite understand me. My bad, i should have formulated it in a better way. Let me reformulate it again:

    How can i acknowledge something i don't have any idea it exists?

    We weren't able to acknowledge Australia's rape culture, because we didn't know it was a Problem.

    You can't expect me to have acknowledged it previously, when this is the first time I've ever heard about it

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  • [–] -3 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    As I mentioned somewhere up the thread, I'm not talking about you personally. I'm talking about the lack of societal acknowledgement and awareness regarding the issue. When 63% of women working in the Australian parliament report being sexually harassed as I linked above, and there are years of newspaper articles from all over the world regarding it yet there's no societal awareness of the problem something has to change.

    I'm not talking about you personally of course. I'm sure that you are against rape culture that is prevalent in Australia, Japan, and much of the world over.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (3 children)

    This is exactly why everyone thinks you hexbears Lenin apologists are obnoxious. You made a specious argument which seems intended to pull a third nation into a completely unrelated story for no reason and then aggressively argue about it when people call you out. Take the L and try to contribute something other than rage for a bit.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    There are several countries where I've heard of this being a problem, but I've never heard this about Australia. Care to share some resources about what you're referring to?

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