Excuse me, that is not mansplaining. But thanks for anglosplaining to me how English-language rules of proper victim-respecting word choice are in fact universal values that should be enforced on the Japanese as well.
Are they really being enforced?
Yes, morality is subjective (no matter what some people may think) but moral relativity can only ever be self serving.
Fine, you don’t think this is rape I get it. But arguing that the Japanese system of law doesn’t think is rape is pointless since the response has been about how this should be considered rape because we all understand it already isn’t considered rape in Japan.
My native language isn’t English either; I’m not American. I do think this is a sex crime and specifically rape. The law may not agree with me, but laws are not made to give us a framework for thinking about the world, laws aren’t natural or infallible. The Japanese may never consider this rape in the colloquial sense either. But I can make the case can’t I?
You may remain unconvinced, you can even offer your own counterargument, but you don’t get to say you’re right because that’s the way things are.
If the facts we know here are true, then this woman was basically blackmailed into having sex. On camera.
Is this rape? Well it’s a crime, we can at least agree on that. (from this point on lets not argue Japanese law unless we want to look stupid)
Is it a sex crime? The point of the blackmail was financial gain through forcing a person to have sex against her will. This was to be recorded and sold for financial gain. The very act of recording also served to perpetuate the blackmail scheme.
The goal was to make money, they coerced a woman to have sex so they could make money.
This is starting to sound a bit more like human trafficking, which is even worse. Now maybe we couldn’t argue rape on a technicality: Could we say that the people that had sex with this woman are rapists? That’s the tricky bit. I suppose it’s possible that they were not told she was doing this against her will, if she was blackmailed she wouldn’t either.
But does that absolve them of any guilt?
Are we now short a crime because we can’t find blame?
Was it OK for somebody to penetrate her because he didn’t know she didn’t want to be there?
Somebody should find out how much the other participants knew.
Would that change your mind?
