How The United Nations Tried To BAN Manga For "Discrimination Against Women"

The United Nations has a long history of trying to interfere with fictional works especially when it comes to FICTION from foreign countries.

Yes, Japan is the country in this case with its:

Anime.
Manga.
Hentai.

And all things in between that put a bad taste in the “United Nations! mouths. The so called peacekeepers and justice fighters of the world.

So what did the UN do?

When The UN was savagely rejected by the Japanese

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Back in 2016, there was a new review to be made for Japan’s records on women, and their rights.

It was examined by the UN committee and questions were brought forward, along with issues of women’s rights.

Guess what popped up in the conversation?

Anime, manga and Japanese video games.

QUOTE:

“Japan’s record on women’s rights will be examined by the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) on 16 February. Japan has ratified the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and so is reviewed regularly by the Committee on how it is implementing the Convention.”

Among the possible issues for discussion were:

Banning the sale of video games or cartoons involving sexual violence against women.
employment equality.
illegal dismissal of women due to pregnancy and childbirth.
sexual harassment in the workplace.

Among other things unrelated to video games, cartoons, and the manga attempted ban by the UN.

It’s interesting when looking at the above quote how video games, anime, manga, etc, end up in a conversation where REAL things affect real people, which fictional things cannot and never have.

Almost as if fiction is being equated to reality as is the case with anime and video games somehow. More so when looked through the eyes of the UN or Western countries.

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How Japan responded:

QUOTE:

“We are absolutely in agreement that the protection of the rights of women in Japan is important. On the other hand, we think it should be carefully and seriously evaluated whether the measures taken to ensure those protections are valid ones or not.
If we are asked to consider whether “Protecting Women’s Rights in Japan” requires us to “Ban the Sale of Manga and Video Games Depicting Sexual Violence,” then we must reply that that is an absolute “no.”

Notice how like any person living in reality, they mentioned “We are absolutely in agreement that the protection of the rights of women in Japan is important”.

This is logical and of course, should be promoted and taken seriously. But as they said in response to the UN, it’s an absolute NO since fiction isn’t real and can’t harm real people.

Why is this so hard to understand by those who have a hard-on for censorship?

Japan’s reasoning was sound and logical:

Reason #1

“The so-called sexual violence in manga and video games is a made-up thing and as such does not threaten the rights of actual people; therefore, it is meaningless in protecting the rights of women.”

If only more people understood this statement, there would be less nonsense when it comes to online censorship of anime, manga, and their associated accounts.

Plus there would be less unnecessary controversy, drama, and fake outrage on top of the moral police who scream and shout about the rights and wrongs of anime.

Reason #2

“In Japan, and especially when it comes to manga, these are creative fields that women themselves cultivated and worked hard by their own hand to create careers for themselves.
If we were to “ban the sale of manga that includes sexual violence,” it would do the opposite and instead create a new avenue of sexism toward women.”

This is the problem with subtle sexism. When you focus purely on one gender, and pretend like the same or similar problems don’t apply the other way around, you end up doing things that are counterproductive.

Like creating more sexism when you’re convinced you’re somehow getting rid of it with imaginary problems (the United Nations is known for this).

Japan’s spokesperson took it a STEP further with more detail:

“The figures in manga and video games are creative fictions that do not actually exist, and thus this is not a violation of any real person’s human rights. We should focus on attacking the problems that affect real women’s human rights as quickly as possible.”

This is what I’ve been saying for a while. When it comes to sexism, anime girls, fanservice, and all the other nonsense that anime gets dragged into and criticized for, it doesn’t help anybody.

It only reinforces biases, double standards, and more importantly, real people aren’t being helped in the process.

Censors can get a hard-on for censorship all they like, but if that hard-on is for fictional pieces of work. while real people suffer, then in effect they’re scum bags. They become complicit.

Attacking REAL problems should be the focus of any organization, charity, and so on. Not fictional pieces of work like anime, manga, or even hentai. And especially not video games.

Going a step further to illustrate the point

QUOTE:

“Among the manga for women in our country, there were titles that took up the history of women’s sexual exploitation and slavery. “The Cliff For Those Would Be Parents” by Fumiko Sone was one such work.
Against the backdrop of the real history, it is a work that paints the life of a girl who lived in poverty and was sold into service as a prostitute for Bakusai Harem in Hokkaido’s Muroran, and how she lives through the experience.
For the people who live in these times, it is manga like this that creates an opportunity for people to imagine the pain of women living in that era. However, because this work contains depictions of sexual violence, if we employed on a ban on the sale of “manga that depicted sexual violence,” it would go out of print and eventually people would lose that chance.”