"Saaya Irie, the name synonymous with the Japanese underground culture, may never put on a bathing suit again. The 11-year old Japanese girl best known for her scandalous F-cups vaulted into world-wide fame through an article printed in the Japan Times which stated her presence may ease tension between China and Japan."
I swear, you can't make this stuff up.
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Joe, IMHO that link rates an "NSFW" disclaimer.
What the hell? Are we trying to normalize pedophilia? Such kids used to be protected, especially from their own greed.
Ick. I think I want to scrub out my brain now.
I'm pretty happy I read the comments before I clicked on the link.
Now I won't. ;)
Is that an F-cup? You gotta be kidding me! In Houston thats a 'C'.
David, Andrew.... people are strange. Offhand, too, I'd say she's dealing with the whole thing pretty sensibly.
But you know, given a society (China) that has been practicing female infanticide for decades, is this story really so surprising? It also struck me as a fairly harmless window into a situation that could have far less harmless manifestations.
Lewy, the link has her in bathing suits, and normal bathing suits at that. Should be SFW.
Finally, Bullshark, while I'm really tempted to make a comment that includes the words "Houston" and "silicone," I think I'll save it.
The photographs are tasteful and flattering, for any whose aesthetic and moral sense admits such characterizations for photos of young women in swimsuits. (Mine certainly does).
Yet the mere fact of the girl's age renders the images uncanny at best and very likely downright disturbing.
Joe, workplace policies tend to be somewhat arbitrary, the lines fuzzy and best not approached. This is not a jpeg whose presence in the corporate proxy server I'd be pleased with having to have to explain.
They've certainly got a whole different cup-scale over there. I wouldn't be surprised to hear that it's intentional, allowing Mrs. John Q Japan to feel "adequate" amongst all the big-titted gaijin.
Lewy,
I'd love to see what fans of Britney and Christina do to make that safe for work...
Joe, don't mean to jerk your chain (heh, pardon the expression) but my point is not the nature of the photos, which is unexceptional - it has to do with the girl's age. As you mention, the photos themselves are tame compared to the dross one would encounter quite innocently on the front page of Google News, etc - Brittany, Paris Hilton, et al. These are women, however, not 11 year old girls. The naked fact of Saaya Irie being a pre-teen and appearing in a bikini might be enough to get someone in trouble if someone noticed - which, because the photos themselves are somewhat innocuous, is admittedly unlikely.
Having worked for many years at very, very large corporations which employ people to sit around and think about just these kinds of things, and enforce them, informs my abundance of caution in these matters.
Joe Krazman wrote:
"But you know, given a society (China) that has been practicing female infanticide for decades, is this story really so surprising?"
No, historically it's the U.S. which has a history of child-abuse. In the U.S.-law, act 274 it says having sex with children is legal. Act 295 of the US-law claims that incest is legal. That's why all U.S.-parents have been raping their children for over 300 years.
Bob (#11) has to be the most bizarre "Blame America First" examples I've ever seen... top 3, at least.