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Samurai_Jerk wrote:Russell wrote:wagyl wrote:By not being a lesbian, duh!
Or pretending not being lesbian...
Man, an attractive successful self-hating lesbian sounds awesome. I'd love to help her explore sexuality by starting with a 3P.
matsuki wrote:kurogane wrote:Interesting that her Ganbaru rabbit punch pose didn't turn you off..........![]()
This one better?
kurogane wrote:Oooh. Well picked up. This is a wabbit punch:
But you're right. The gayassed Ganbaru pose is a neko punch, innit? Mon Mal.
At any rate, if that's Very Bangable Matsuki needs more and much better dating advice than I do.
A rabbit punch is a blow to the back of the head or to the base of the skull.[1] It is considered especially dangerous because it can damage the cervical vertebrae and subsequently the spinal cord, which may lead to serious and irreparable spinal cord injury. A rabbit punch can also detach the victim's brain from the brain stem,[citation needed] which can kill instantly.
The punch's name is derived from the use of the technique by hunters to kill rabbits with a quick, sharp strike to the back of the head.
Samurai_Jerk wrote:The question isn't whether or not she's bangable because the answer is almost always yes. The question is would you been seen in public with her sober on a sunny afternoon?
Samurai_Jerk wrote:kurogane wrote:Oooh. Well picked up. This is a wabbit punch:
But you're right. The gayassed Ganbaru pose is a neko punch, innit? Mon Mal.
At any rate, if that's Very Bangable Matsuki needs more and much better dating advice than I do.
I've always wondered when the term rabbit punch came from so I looked it up.A rabbit punch is a blow to the back of the head or to the base of the skull.[1] It is considered especially dangerous because it can damage the cervical vertebrae and subsequently the spinal cord, which may lead to serious and irreparable spinal cord injury. A rabbit punch can also detach the victim's brain from the brain stem,[citation needed] which can kill instantly.
The punch's name is derived from the use of the technique by hunters to kill rabbits with a quick, sharp strike to the back of the head.
Kuro just doesn't realize that his is what his jukujo's looked like before he got to them. She isn't amazing but totally bangable, with the lights on.
The question isn't whether or not she's bangable because the answer is almost always yes. The question is would you been seen in public with her sober on a sunny afternoon?
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Kuro just doesn't realize that his is what his jukujo's looked like before he got to them. She isn't amazing but totally bangable, with the lights on.
kurogane wrote:rabbit punch
Will Japanese Couples Come Out For Marriage Equality?
A push for marriage equality is building in Japan, but same-sex couples aren’t leading the charge. J. Lester Feder reports from Tokyo.
TOKYO, Japan — Shoko Usami decided she wanted to marry her girlfriend after watching her mother die.
It was October 2013, and Usami had rushed to the hospital. She was the only relative who had the power to make the decision the doctors needed: whether to end life support. When her mother died, Usami would be left completely without family — at least on paper. And she was forced to make the decision alone because her partner, Miho Okada, wasn’t by her side. A nurse had shoved Okada aside when they entered the room, saying she was not a “blood relative.”
Eight months later, on June 5, which was Usami’s 46th birthday, the two women walked into the squat, white building that houses the local government of Aomori, a city of under 300,000 people at the northern tip of Japan’s largest island. They marched into the building’s marriage office, accompanied by around 15 friends, some of whom had flown in from Tokyo and Osaka after the couple announced their plan to marry on Twitter and Facebook. They’d heard rumors others had tried to register before, but as far as they knew, they were the first same-sex couple to publicize an attempt to legally register a marriage in Japan.
“I realized that I needed a way to make our partnership official and accepted,” Usami told BuzzFeed News.
Their friends later told them they had difficulty breathing as a tense silence fell over the office when they announced why they were there. The clerk sat dumbfounded — although almost all developed democracies recognize some form of same-sex partnership, it seemed not to have occurred to her that two women would want to get married in Japan.
Their request was denied. After waiting several hours, they were given a letter that said they could not marry because Article 24 of the Constitution states that “marriage shall be based only on the mutual consent of both sexes.” The argument they’d made to the clerk — “We both consent and we both have sexes” — had failed.
From the outside, it’s a mystery why Okada and Usami’s stand was so lonely. Some polls suggest support for marriage equality in Japan tops 50%, and there are no religious blocs or socially conservative lobbies organized to oppose LGBT rights in the country. But one of the most striking features of marriage equality in Japan has been just how few same-sex couples are confronting their government to demand it.
Now, for the first time, a path to partnership rights may be opening — not because of a growing clamour from gays and lesbians, but because of the Olympics, which are coming to Tokyo in 2020. The organizers believed the showdown over LGBT rights that led up to the 2014 games in Russia guaranteed Japan’s record on the issue would be put under the microscope as their games approached, and they wanted to show the world they stood with countries like the United States and Germany on the issue.
Some local governments have set up largely symbolic registries for same-sex couples, even though partnership protections aren’t on the table in parliament — the Diet — for now. But the question is being forced by some of Japan’s most powerful institutions: global corporations, which are giving spousal benefits to gay employees for the first time.
But very few couples have come forward to claim these new benefits, and even fewer are publicly demanding their rights like Usami and Okada. Just a handful of other couples have followed their lead since, and even the two-year-old group Equal Marriage Alliance Japan (EMA-Japan) seems deeply uncomfortable with personalizing the issue. Though Usami and Okada kept up their protest by again attempting to register in 2015 and are considering doing it again this year, Okada said, “We’ve never been asked by anybody to come and talk about our experience for such a campaign, including EMA-Japan. I’m not sure if they’re even looking for this.”
They’re not, said EMA-Japan’s director, Kazu Terada.
“I don’t want somebody to sacrifice their life” by publicizing their relationship, Terada said. And he shies away from speaking about why marriage equality is important to him, too.
“I want my personal life quiet, peaceful, not so exposed to everyone,” he said. “I don’t get why sacrifice is necessary to realize the cause.”
The question for Japan’s marriage equality movement is whether it can win while the demand remains largely invisible, or will it have to become a vocal political movement ready for a national fight.
“I don’t want somebody to sacrifice their life” by publicizing their relationship, Terada said. And he shies away from speaking about why marriage equality is important to him, too.
Coligny wrote:“I don’t want somebody to sacrifice their life” by publicizing their relationship, Terada said. And he shies away from speaking about why marriage equality is important to him, too.
Ehmmm... French weddings have to be announced and published at the city hall wedding panel/corkboard/whatever few weeks before their registrations can occur...
There is no such things as a seeekret wedding...
That stuff don't even make sense...
They’re not, said EMA-Japan’s director, Kazu Terada.
“I don’t want somebody to sacrifice their life” by publicizing their relationship, Terada said. And he shies away from speaking about why marriage equality is important to him, too.
“I want my personal life quiet, peaceful, not so exposed to everyone,” he said. “I don’t get why sacrifice is necessary to realize the cause.”
Coligny wrote:“I don’t want somebody to sacrifice their life” by publicizing their relationship, Terada said. And he shies away from speaking about why marriage equality is important to him, too.
Ehmmm... French weddings have to be announced and published at the city hall wedding panel/corkboard/whatever few weeks before their registrations can occur...
There is no such things as a seeekret wedding...
That stuff don't even make sense...
kurogane wrote:They’re not, said EMA-Japan’s director, Kazu Terada.
“I don’t want somebody to sacrifice their life” by publicizing their relationship, Terada said. And he shies away from speaking about why marriage equality is important to him, too.
“I want my personal life quiet, peaceful, not so exposed to everyone,” he said. “I don’t get why sacrifice is necessary to realize the cause.”
I fully support what the 2 women tried as a nice legal test, but this guy has real dignity. That sort of maturity and dignity would be more than welcome from all the panty pissers we've got shouting from the musical theatre stages back here.
Samurai_Jerk wrote:I do appreciate the way your average person here doesn't seem to want to whore for the media in the same way people in the US do. I think I mentioned here before about how surprised I was at first that people generally wanted their faces hidden when commenting about an incident on the news whereas in the America they can't wait to jump in front of the camera and give their uniformed opinion on just about anything.
whereas in the America they can't wait to jump in front of the camera and give their uniformed opinion on just about anything
kurogane wrote:Samurai_Jerk wrote:whereas in the America they can't wait to jump in front of the camera and give their uniformed opinion on just about anything
And what a wonderful Spoonerism that turned out to be.
Wage Slave wrote:kurogane wrote: And what a wonderful Spoonerism that turned out to be.
Absolutely great.. Not really a spoonerism though. That's things like cunning stunt. A malapropism or perhaps more correctly a gem of an eggcorn.anyway.
kurogane wrote:Yes, a good point. Probably an eggcorn of sorts, or just a malaprop like you said. I have convinced myself there is another category it fits into but it ain't coming up.
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