DANY'S WORLD
What LGBTQ+ means to us
As the director of Media and Outreach of BASIS GZ LGBTQ+ club, it's my obligation to raise public awareness to push aside the fog of sexual minority community.
They are neither monsters, nor sub-humans, but "the homosexual was now a species", according to the famous French philosopher Michel Foucault.
日本女权运动的兴起和衰落(其一)
The rise and fall of Japanese feminism (part 1)
one of a series of columns of mine posted in the club wechat public account since Jan, 2022
近些年来，中国内部的女权运动愈演愈烈，从无人知晓到人尽皆知。可不同的群体对其的态度完全不一致，有人说它违背了孝文化，有人说女性得了便宜还不收敛，也有人说女性觉醒是好事。多方舆论下，我国女权局势逐渐变得极端，呈两极分化现象，产生了所谓的“性别对立”。当然，历史上不缺乏例子，位于亚洲的日本就曾经爆发过女权运动，可令人唏嘘的是，她们也被淹没在时代的洪流之中。
In most recent years, the feminist movements set a fire in China and become well-known from the unknown to the public. But different groups of interests fail to share the same page while the conservatives criticize that betray the filial obligation ("be a good daughter") and are insatiably avaricious of power. On the other side of progressiveness, women's awakeness is utterly good and meaningful. Under the fierce argument and debate, the situation became extreme and the "gender war" broke out on social media. China is not an outlier in the theme of gender struggle and conflict because Japan, our neighbor who shares a similar culture encountered a massive feminist movement in the 20th century. Sadly speaking, their voices have been overshadowed by the irresistible tide of the time nowadays.
兴起
The Rise
物质决定意识，在聊女权问题之前，我们得先探讨下日本经济是如何发家的。在二战结束时，日本有超过90个城市遭到毁坏，老工业区受损尤其严重。作为美军的战败国，日本在战后沦为棋子，用于在冷战期间封锁俄罗斯的工具。可日本受损严重，美国只好进行三大改革，分别是“土地改革，政治民主化和反垄断”。日本从军国主义正式迈进到资本主义。
Material determines consciousness. Before talking about feminism, it's necessary to investigate how Japanese economics recovered from WWII. When the war ended, over 90+ Japanese cities and many more industrial zones were heavily damaged. Japan turned into the frontline of anti-socialism and a tool for building the lockdown of USSR influence. However, to fulfill Japan's role in the global strategy of the US, it is a must to push economic and political reforms. Under the host of General MacArthur, Japan initialized three preliminary reforms, namely, land reform, democratization, and anti-monopoly.
Hiroshima after the nuke bombing
美军的粮食支援和低税收带来了日本的“战后一代“，换句话说就是战后婴儿潮。这让日本在未来拥有大量廉价劳动力，对于支持经济有着重要作用。五十年代，随着朝鲜战争的爆发，美国资本进驻日本造厂来解决军需问题，从而让日本工业复苏。1961年时日本经济增长率已经超过12%。1964年，战后二十年，日本实现了开展奥运会的经济奇迹。1968年，随着婴儿潮的成年，日本正式超越德国成为世界第二大经济体。
US Army's food assitstance and low-texation policy ignited a postwar "baby boom" in Japan. That laid the foundation of future economic recovery because it provided Japan with numerous cheap labors. Since the outbreak of the Korean War, US capital poured in to invest the manufactory in Japan for military supplies and thus stimulate the economic recovery of Japan. In 1961, the annual GDP growth of Japan was over 12%. In 1964, Japan host the Olympics Game and announced a economic miracle to the world. In 1968, with the adultification of postwar "baby boom", Japan took the place of Federal Germany as the world's second economy.
回到女权主义，当日本经济不成问题时，人们的思想也会随之进步。物质决定意识，女权运动是不会在第三世界国家爆发的，因为女性没有经济自由。而当时的日本，可谓是人人都占了红利，属于经济增长期。而当女性获得经济自由，凭什么将其束缚在传统的观念下？于是乎，女性开始否认男尊女卑，否认旧时代的陋习，宣告着女权运动的崛起。
Speaking of feminism, when people's living is no longer a problem, their mindset would follow up. Feminist movements rarely broke out in third-world nations because women don't have financial freedom. Once they earned liberation in the family economy, why should they continue to tie themselves in the traditional positions? Japan's new generation of women started to deny feudal orders and habits where men always enjoyed an advantageous social status. That sounded the bugle of feminist movements, uprising.