Feminists' worst nightmare - It's a boyin the Japanese royal family!!

Judging from the gender of the baby that was just born between Princess Kiko and her husband, the emperor’s younger son, the winners in this Japanese royal succession saga were the Japanese royal family and the conservatives who wanted to preserve two-thousand years old tradition of male-only succession of crowns. And the losers? Feminists, both inside and outside Japan, and leftist media. It is like their worst nightmare come true. They would have wished that the baby wasn’t born at all.

Too bad Japan’s leftist media’s opportunistic campaign to change the law to allow female succession to crown, which had been hailed and promoted for the last few years, employing scores of familiar leftist tactics, including filling op-ed with one-sided view (theirs, of course) and intentionally skewed sampling of data and surveys of public opinions, did not materialize. They were hoping that a law change would be a catalyst to seismic societal change in Japan to give more power to women and to see a “50-50” society. Feminists around the world collaborated with their counterparts in Japan and pushed hard for another female head of state in Asia, bringing aside for a moment their age-old argument that goes something like, a royal family is the most vivid manifestation of crushing patriarchy and male domination of female – as long as a female get to be the head. The Guardian may have already prepared an article that was intended to close the argument on whether women should be allowed succession of crown in the event the baby’s gender was female, but that draft had to be thrown out, at least for a while. But they haven’t given up yet. They are feminists, they are not going to give up. They’ve already reminded people that the debate on the issue is “not over” and that people’s view on the issue “remains split”. Feminists’ counterattack will begin?


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