[floatl][/floatl]When a private picture of NTV presenter Miku Natsume appeared in weekly magazine Flash, it caused quite a stir because she was holding a box of Sagami condoms. The implication that she was having sex, and even enjoying it, has proved fatal for her career and it has now been announced she will be leaving the broadcaster in December (Japanese). When she was advised she could no longer stay on her main show, a TV insider says that she tearfully begged for a second chance. She was told, however, that her image had suffered irrevocably with housewives who are regarded as a key part of the audience. One of her other shows was discontinued and it became clear she was getting the shove. Natsume was a rising star on the network and a "Save Natsume Group" even formed within the company as the storm broke. They initially tried to claim that the photo came from an AIDS campaign which was in the planning stage but this explanation was believed by no-one. Her supporters quickly realized they were fighting a losing battle and Natsume herself probably realized the game was up when the group dissolved. It's believed that she and her partner are now planning to get married and some believe that, given time, she could yet return to TV with a housewife image herself.

Miku is a bad person because ____ ?

a. She has sex.
b. She has safe sex.
c. She may enjoy having sex.
d. all of the above

Mike Oxlong wrote:Miku is a bad person because ____ ?

a. She has sex.
b. She has safe sex.
c. She may enjoy having sex.
d. all of the above

I believe it was her unwillingness to go bareback and her insistence on using a condom, a sexual manifestation of the repression men feel in this society, that lost her her job.

But still fucking unfortunate

Mike Oxlong wrote:Miku is a bad person because ____ ?

e. She showed her life has more excitement in it than 99% of her married but sexless fan base.

I don't get why more Asian women don't just deny it being them... they all look the same anyway, they should use it.

"When the men understand that women are not bad people because they are enjoying themselves. Women are just like men, but they've been operating under a broken paradigm. A paradigm that says "If you do what you want, you are bad"... "if you do what you feel like doing, you are bad."... and of course women can't live like that, so they lie to themselves. They equivocate. They say "It didn't count". They say "Well, we only made out". They say whatever to keep their "number" low, and therefore keep the demand for them high amongst those men who will say "I wouldn't want to hook up with her! She's a slut! I don't want to marry her! I just want to go to bed with her!"... and this is not to anyone's benefit."

"It's that the rules that women are trying to use are not designed for women. They are designed for men, when women were just property."

-- The worthy playboy

Neo-Rio wrote:"When the men understand that women are not bad people because they are enjoying themselves. Women are just like men, but they've been operating under a broken paradigm. A paradigm that says "If you do what you want, you are bad"... "if you do what you feel like doing, you are bad."... and of course women can't live like that, so they lie to themselves. They equivocate. They say "It didn't count". They say "Well, we only made out". They say whatever to keep their "number" low, and therefore keep the demand for them high amongst those men who will say "I wouldn't want to hook up with her! She's a slut! I don't want to marry her! I just want to go to bed with her!"... and this is not to anyone's benefit."

-- The worthy playboy

Kanchou wrote:I don't get why more Asian women don't just deny it being them... they all look the same anyway, they should use it.

Heh. Un-PC, but true. I think that's why the Japanese have become such connoisseurs of microscopic variations in things like eyebrow shape

-catone

-by the way, my old Esquire book titled "Guide to Men's Style" or some crap says that eyebrow sculpting among men is the demesne of homosexuals only).

Neo-Rio wrote:
"It's that the rules that women are trying to use are not designed for women. They are designed for men, when women were just property."

-- The worthy playboy

To which I'd reply, what's with the "were," Kemo Sabe? That women are chattel is a basic part of sharia law.

-catone
-and the Brits, who seem these days to be nothing but gormless, supine dhimmis, officially sanction the use of sharia law there. Cool Brittania!

And meanwhile, somewhere in France, my sister roam freely driving a car with little marks painted on the door for every new toy boy she exhaust...
(a-la fighter pilot kills)
(before you ask, yes, she fly -real- planes too)
(don't know if there is still some place on the door, long time no see)

The parodies have begun...

Like most people, I hate this kind of shit. You can't find anyone who thinks she should be canned but these assholes fire her anyway because that's what they consider playing it safe.

Originally spotted by one and only IkemenTommy(tm)... about 2 months ago.

AssKissinger wrote:Like most people, I hate this kind of shit. You can't find anyone who thinks she should be canned but these assholes fire her anyway because that's what they consider playing it safe.

Yeah, it's especially retarded considering how uptight the Japanese AREN'T about sex. It ain't like this is fucking Korea or some shit.

Midwinter wrote:I believe it was her unwillingness to go bareback and her insistence on using a condom, a sexual manifestation of the repression men feel in this society, that lost her her job.

But still fucking unfortunate

Guess she should have just went for the bareback option. All jokes aside, this is all much to do about nothing. Since when is it a crime to have a picture of you on your time off with a package of rubbers?
Could this be perhaps payback from some TV exec., that maybe wanted some nookie, nookie and she wouldn't give it up? Because honestly, can't seem to find anything wrong with what she did.
This country oozes with Sex, you can't escape it, it's all around you, but now it's a problem???
And why is it when some dude walks around naked and drunk and becomes a public nuisance, it's Ok or when a TV personality "biiiatch slaps" his co-worker, the guy gets a few months off, but this chick gets her walking papers? Amazing!

xenomorph42 wrote:And why is it when some dude walks around naked and drunk and becomes a public nuisance, it's Ok or when a TV personality "biiiatch slaps" his co-worker, the guy gets a few months off, but this chick gets her walking papers? Amazing!

Pssst. I'll let you in on a secret. The world is run by old MALE farts.

xenomorph42 wrote: Since when is it a crime to have a picture of you on your time off with a package of rubbers?

If said rubbers were "ribbed for her pleasure" then perhaps she was being a selfish bitch?

On the one hand, it's totally preposterous to fire someone for something as insignificant as that.

On the other hand, if the fate of your job rested in the hands of the fickle general public's opinion of you (and you were a woman), why would you EVER consider having a picture taken of yourself holding a box of condoms?

As bad as I feel for the woman, it's hard to feel TOO bad for someone that stupid. You live by the "sword," you die by the "sword."

Gilligan wrote:On the other hand, if the fate of your job rested in the hands of the fickle general public's opinion of you (and you were a woman), why would you EVER consider having a picture taken of yourself holding a box of condoms?

Don't know, maybe a public service, stuff like 'sex is not dirty' and so on ? Might not catch in the country that created tentacle rape though...

It's the kind of bullshit that would drive people up the wall from extreme left to extreme right. Again, at home this could result in suspension of broadcast license for the TV network.

With the boom of STD in this Island Asylum it should be considered as criminal to do anything against promotion of safe sex practice. You would not believe the age of the (recurring) abortion of some girls. In a sense... I don't give a fuck... The more they screw up themselves, the more they need Ob-Gyn... The more I can have money to buy me a Benz the day I can drive a trip without losing a body panel...

(on a side note, driving a cheap junk is so much more relaxing... after a fender bender you switch from 'there goes this month salary' to 'there goes today's cheezeburger'... a much better fit with my constant attraction toward stationnary objects)

Samurai_Jerk wrote:Pssst. I'll let you in on a secret. The world is run by old MALE farts.

Yea, I get it, but it's still fucked up, no matter how you look at it, you gotta admit it.

Petty, fickle and just plain childish. The Japanese public.

xenomorph42 wrote:Yea, I get it, but it's still fucked up, no matter how you look at it, you gotta admit it.

Oh, it's fucked. The old farts that made that decision must have their heads stuck so far up their asses. I bet there's at most one Japanese housewife who was offended by that.

Natsume Miku now claims that her posing with the pack of condoms was for anti-AIDS campaign segment for some Nittele 24-hour marathon show...

chaste makes waste..