[ SECRET POST #3301 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3301 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

"While it certainly fawned over the mystique of geisha, it's no worse than works that fawn over the "honorable" samurai and such."

Uh, what? Books that fawn over the samurai mystique inflate their roles as stoic warriors with an iron clad sense of honor. Memoirs of a Geisha made geisha out to be super-sexualized hookers who are sold into sexual slavery. Can you honestly not see the difference in those two portrayals?


"I reckon it's pretty harmless overall, minus what the aforementioned unintentionally muddying the real geisha's reputation."

It did more than muddy her reputation. When she received death threats in response to Golden's clumsy outing, that was no joke.

[(Anonymous)]

What? For goodness sake, I'm not even a fan of the book and it did NOT make them out to be super-sexualized hookers, beyond the virginity auction thing. The geisha were shown to be entertainers first and foremost who might have official "sponsors" who they might sleep with. I remember there being a lot of alarm when one dude strips the main character. This criticism is seriously inflating what was in the book, it wasn't about prostitution.

And the samurai mystique is almost more offensive, because what they did historically was massacre and murder. They were upper class bullies who were historically far more vicious than they were honorable, who could mow down peasants for absolutely any reason.

When did I call that a joke? I said calling out the real geisha was the only problem I have with the work. I absolutely find it serious. But that doesn't affect my opinion of the actual story itself.