February 7, 2012
If you thought geishas were as dead as the dinosaurs, think again. Increasingly, Japanese women are rejecting the conventional path of love and marriage. Some choose to focus on career advancement, and becoming a geisha is now a very real aspiration for some young women. In Shimoda, a hot spring resort on Japan’s Pacific coast, which ...
Tags: Awagiku,
career,
control,
cultural arts,
cultural heritage,
entertainer,
Geisha,
geisha lifestyle,
Japan,
komono,
love,
marriage,
prerogative,
profession,
prostitute,
rebirth of a geisha,
role of a geisha,
sex,
Shimoda,
social status,
subservience,
tourism,
traditional roles,
tsunami,
women's choice
June 1, 2011
A group of three men are being charged with the murder of Katya Koren in Ukraine, after allegedly stoning her to death for apparently violating Islam as a beauty pageant contestant. The men in question believe that Katya was betraying Sharia Law by not dressing modestly and participating in the competition, in which she placed ...
Tags: abuse,
beauty pageant,
control,
death,
domestic violence,
fashionable,
Islam,
law,
Muslim,
religion,
religions,
Sharia Law,
stoning to death,
Ukraine
January 3, 2011
People in this day and age are still under the illusion that every woman who is successful must be being controlled by a man… I’m the boss. ~ Lily Allen