• GrymEdm@lemmy.world
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    It’s not just Japanese Maid Cafes that are a little crazy that way. Now I’m guessing Hooters doesn’t do much business in China either.

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      3 months ago

      I see these sometimes in anime and they always seem creepy as hell. I just don’t get it. Then again, I’m gay and dom/sub never has appealed to me, even in role play.

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        I do the whole dom/sub thing pretty intensely, but not with waitstaff. That’s just creepy. This is their work.

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          Fair, I’m more pointing out that I lack a side of me that that would understand that appeal, both in terms of sexual orientation and dom/sub. But yeah, I’m not sure how consensual this can be.

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            Yeah I think it’s hooters but for incels instead of douchebags. And as a massive lesbo I can theoretically get the appeal but also the appeal is “I want to hire a sex worker, but don’t want to think of myself as having hired a sex worker in this context”.

            And honestly from what I do know about japan’s sex work scene I don’t believe that you can have a reasonable certainty that any sex worker you hired there is consenting. Especially if the worker isn’t originally from Japan. The yakuza absolutely kidnaps poor girls from Southeast Asia, Indonesia, and the Philippines. But that’s where we get into the discussion other people in the thread got into.

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              To further clarify, Maid Cafes in Japan do not provide sexual services. If that wasn’t what was being referred to in this thread please ignore this message.

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                Well yeah, and neither does hooters, but I’d say hooters waitstaff are known and assumed to be catering to sexual tastes in a way that brings their work closer to a stripper than to your waitress at Waffle House. You go to hooters because of the attractive waitstaff, you go to Waffle House for the food.

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      I think there has to be at least little more to this than that. There’s some complicated implications taking this to logical extremes, what of the adult industry for example? But really, it’s hardly a stretch to say the whole theme around which these cafes operate is degrading. Typically cafe work doesn’t require a worker to behave or be encouraged to be objectified in this way and in a normal cafe context, most of the whole maid cafe schtick would be considered pretty inappropriate.

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    China Moves Toward Ban on Japanese-Style ‘Maid Cafés’

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    That’s dramatic… aren’t they just giving women servers rights to not be humiliated as much there… (don’t scream SeeSeePee control all over again)

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    I don’t know the context don’t care to know the context, I just know that they’re rejecting Japanese culture and that’s good.

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      3 months ago

      So, in your opinion, is it good for countries to reject any and all foreign culture, or just specifically Japanese culture?

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        Nah just Japanese. Their culture has been deeply sick ever since America dropped the nukes on them.

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            I mean they’ve always kind of a fashy shithole, but they definitely didn’t start going hardcore on the pervertry until America culturally colonized them.

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              Hmm, shithole is definitely not a word I’d use to describe Japan. Have you ever been there by chance?

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          its more like since amerikkka occupied them for like 50 years and had a puppet one party dictatorship with extremely right wing ideals rule them but i guess that did start with the unnecessary and horrific murder of hundreds of thousands of civilians committed by the amerikkkans when they dropped the bombs.