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Hiroshi Sasaki, who is in charge of planning and directing the opening and closing ceremonies of the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games, resigned after discovering that he had made a proposal to make Naomi Watanabe look like a pig. There are voices defending Mr. Sasaki as “overreaction” on the member exchange site (SNS), but women who have been ridiculed for their appearance are ridiculed while talking about “lookism”. Appeal to the cruelty behind it. . (Ryo Harada, Enka Kamiya)
A woman in her 40s in Tokyo found out about Mr. Watanabe’s troublesome production plan on the news and recalled the past when he was bullied and body shape. “Even if the talent itself is fine, the viewer is not always pleasant. People who are active at the forefront of the advertising industry still think this way,” he despaired.
◆ Eating disorder until the late 20s due to slurs received in middle and high school.
For six years in middle and high school, a woman was slandered by her classmates as “Bus four heavenly kings” and “Wanted to die many times.” A comedy show is doing the trick of making appearances, and the woman recalls, “I think my classmates wanted to be popular and they were impersonating them.”
As a college student, the bullying disappeared, but I was worried about the look of the people around me and they urged me to say: “If it’s not beautiful, it will hurt again,” “All artists are skinny,” and “I have to get off. weight “. At the time, she was 171 cm tall and weighed 58 kg, but she lost 46 kg due to extreme dieting and her period stopped.
After that, he repeated overeating and refusing to eat, and the days of “eating and puking” continued into his twenties. Now he’s gotten over it, but says, “I don’t want to see any harassment-promoting gimmicks.”
◆ “Dye your hair” in an interview that is albino by nature
Yuka Kanbara, a 27-year-old psychiatric social worker in Yokohama, is a disease called “albino”, which has almost no melanin pigment by nature and has white hair and blue eyes. When I was a teenager, I didn’t like how it looked different. In a part-time job interview that I received when I was a student, I was told that I could not dye my hair even if it explained my illness. Recently, these experiences have been disseminated on the Internet.
Yasuo Yabuki, a 41-year-old assistant professor at Rikkyo University’s Faculty of Sociology, who is also an albino and familiar with appearance-related issues, notes that “appearance insults that cannot be changed by appearance person themselves are discriminatory. ” Even if it is a statement within a group that is not public, he concludes that “just because it is an inner circle is not a permitted story.”
◆ “Don’t laugh at your appearance” Air, sensitive
The expression that compares a fat person to a pig is “Many people have felt uncomfortable until now. There is nothing new,” said Assistant Professor Yabuki. Regardless of the sender’s intention, the veteran creative director raises a problem with the expression that it is clear that there are people who feel unpleasant.
Hiroko Togawa (53), representative of NPO “My Face My Style” (Sumida-ku, Tokyo), who works to solve “appearance problems” facing various difficulties due to appearance characteristics, said: “Don’t laugh of their appearance. Now, the artists and the atmosphere of the world should improve. Callous people are not catching up. ”
