『M 愛すべき人がいて』The story of encounter & separation hidden in the birth of a songstress

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Originally Posted by Andrenekoi

^Shameful and ignorant projecting your perception of a culture on her in order to belittle her, someone who is actually a part of that culture and way more aware of its complexities, so you can complain she doesn't fit an idealized version of how you believe she should be or how she should act as a japanese person.
She herself chose her lifestyle as a actual Japonese woman and how to approach her own issues with her own culture the way she does and most likely is well aware of its consequences.
This also doesn't happen only in Japan as every culture has its own share of hypocrital expectations over and will suffer some level of moral judgement once they go against it.

The spin, the spin. Like Chibi and I have already pointed out, our perception of Ayu isn't what we're talking about. It doesn't matter what we think in terms of what most Japanese think. If this hasn't struck you upside the head hard enough yet, you need to go watch the extremely confusing reactions Japanese have for Western ideas of cultural appropriation, equality, and self-expression.

So, feel free to have your take on this, no matter how wrong it is rhetorically, but given your own argument that Ayu knows these complexities far better, why in the hell would she think this is a good idea? The same woman who dropped a photographer for his semi-nude portraits of her staff. The same woman who hid the deterioration of her hearing to avoid gossip. Now involved in a book that's pure scandal.

I don't know. You and I rarely agree on anything apart from Cher and Streisand, but this reads like a reach from you among those disagreements.

Someone else pointed out that Ayu is going to do what she wants. That's fair. What few others seem to understand (unless it benefits their actions) is that those actions have consequences, and in Japan, doing something like this reflects poorly on the people involved. Ayu has gone from Heisei Queen to Party Queen to Gossip Queen. And I don't think it's fair that so many people know her as much for her behavior as they do for her music. It's pretty disappointing that Kuu can bring up expiring amniotic fluid and spend 20 years wearing lingerie on stage, and people think she's an icon, but Ayu can't get her personal live together enough to stop feeding the tabloid trolls every year.

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Reading some of those comments really triggers headache to me.
Just don‘t interpret things into events you haven‘t been there in person...