My Name´s WOMAN _my name´s ayu!

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Originally Posted by Hanazaki

I don't mind Ayumi being sexy and all, but I didn't like the sexual tones in this PV. Whips? Exotic dancers? It's too...'suggestive' for me to handle -_- I mean, there's more to women empowerment than just being...um, 'sexually' powerful, so as a female I don't really like such suggestiveness of this PV -_-

They didn't want to show women empowerment with the way the girls dressed but the opposite imo. They wanted to show how women are seem by men like sexual objects only. But ayu shows that the women aren't there to please any of the guys, that women are far more than a body being displayed for appreciattion. tHe lyrics of the song are pretty clear on that. The girls instead of submitting themselves to the guys slap them and kick their butts of instead. I don't think the message would look funny if ayu dressed like the usual "cutesy" ayu like image

Anopther interpretation would be: she had to look rough in order for the PV to carry the message of the lyrics. The fact that everything looks sexual was done to indeed give a weird feeling to the people watching it because ayu wants to show that women aren't the glamorous doll's that only think about jewels and pretty dresses and which men can manipulate the way they want. The sadistic looks show that the women can make men suffer and that they have control of their own lives, not having to get submitted by what men want. Meaning they're not masochists, the passive image the society (including even the women themselves) have of the female sex. If ayu were to show the usual "Look I'm very cute and shy girl and this is the girl's power" It would go against what she would like to have passed through the lyrics of the song.

(**) We don't cry easily
We are not always coquettish
We are not dolls
Who are only dressed-up