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Maid in the USA - A Visit to Royal/T

FeralKat wrote:

Why would a girl want to lower herself like that?

Because, for girls in Japan and elsewhere in the world (including many developed nations), there's a job that pays less, with longer working hours, and expects you to offer sexual service.

It's all the DERP DERP DAT'S DEGRADING TO WIMMENZ!!1!!1@! people who've made the state of American culture so shitty and puritanical, to the point that we have to import it from Japan.

It's all the DERP DERP DAT'S DEGRADING TO WIMMENZ!!1!!1@! people who've made the state of American culture so shitty and puritanical, to the point that we have to import it from Japan.

Anyways, I'd like it if we got a maid cafe in Boston. Hey, we're metropolitan and have a large Asian American population.

I'm posting from work so I'm a little afraid of clicking on the thumbnails, but I really don't think the point of the maid outfits (in *this* case) is sexual ...anything. From the thumbnails those outfits look ...cute. That's about it. They don't reveal anything.

Or is simply the concept of being a maid degrading? I wasn't aware that it was...

einhorn303 wrote:

It's all the DERP DERP DAT'S DEGRADING TO WIMMENZ!!1!!1@! people who've made the state of American culture so shitty and puritanical, to the point that we have to import it from Japan. Anyways, I'd like it if we got a maid cafe in Boston. Hey, we're metropolitan and have a large Asian American population.

Jesus christ what the hell is this

"Rampant, blatant misogyny isn't OK anymore in this country so in order to feel superior to women for stupid-ass redneck-style reasons I have to import sexist, obviously pandering entertainment from a society that still has a pretty big problem with gender equality"

I find it absolutely hilarious that you think a society progressing toward equality and a lack of tolerance for intolerance or subjugation of a people based on gender or race is "puritanical".

Boston is a pretty progressive city by the way so I don't think your dream of a cafe where Asian girls pretend they can tolerate you while wearing servant clothing would go over too well.

They're every bit as sexualised as if the women were wearing Playboy bunny outfits.

Dressing up as a maid for the sexual gratification of men who get off on the concept of posessing their own personal servile, dependent, sexually available, doormat girl...yes, that is inherantly degrading.

I agree with you that that's what's being expressed in actual maid cafes in Japan, but I don't think that's the case here. Based on the comment of one of the maids, they have no idea what their counterparts in akihabara actually do. They have no idea how to do any of that creepy "goshujin-sama" stuff that appears to be where the most offense is being taken.

It really sounds like they're effectively waitresses in maid attire, meant to capture the impression of another culture [...] I see no intent to degrade women in the store proprietors, the attire, or the clientele.

And frankly, in my opinion, Maid cafes degrade the men who go to them more than the women who work at them.

I don’t think they’ll allow anyone to receive or provide any sexual gratification [...] I think the shy nerds these girls are targeting should be absolutely incensed

Nah. In order to incense the nerds they'd have to try and stop them from downloading maids for free from file sharing sites. The nerds would angrily assert that a maid speaking Japanese is more authentic than a maid speaking English and they would further point out that downloaded maids come with neat karaoke effects.

I don't know if anyone realized, but we are living in an age where things that are would be degrading women is now put on a pedestal and women are owning that image as something powerful.

I think most people have also ignored that fact that this cafe is located in a space where it has an art gallery beside it.

Um... I know it says "troll" in your name and everything,

but could you at least try to focus your trolling on one topic at a time?

Wow. I bet you're considered the greatest wit in all of Siff Ifrika. I mean, seriously, comedy gold. You should go pro.

If you consider even the mildest of tongue-in-cheek asides to be trolling, you're clearly far too delicate to be exposed to the internet.
Furthermore, your implication would appear to be that my posts prior to that were also "trolling". They weren't and I'd be curious to know what on Earth would make you think they were. Could it be that the idea of a person with strongly held ideals that go beyond "whatever I want is my absolute divine right" is so alien to you that you can only conclude it must be some kind of elaborate wind up?
Like I said before, must be a generational thing...

I suspect if I were Japanese I'd be slightly insulted if I thought this was what my culture had been reduced to in the eyes of other nations. It's like a person opening an American theme bar here in Europe, staffing it with girls in cheerleader outfits and then insisting they're not selling sex, they're selling "culture".

Only widespread and popular cultural adoptions (like, say, anime) have the clout to be imported without modification and with appropriate respect taken for the source country.