Women “would have their uteruses removed when they turn over 30,” Naoki Hyakuta, leader of the Conservative Party of Japan, said in a stream on his YouTube channel on Friday.
On the channel, he also said that he would make it law for “women who are single after 25 years old not to be allowed to marry.”
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Later, Hyakuta posted an apology on his X account. “I cannot deny that the expressions were too harsh,” he said. “I apologize for those who were offended.”
Just in case anyone is wondering, this is a fringe right-wing party with one seat in Japanese Parliament’s lower house.
this is a fringe right-wing party with one seat in Japanese Parliament’s lower house.
One seat too many, if this is the attitude of their leader.
This is how it started in most EU countries: one MP who is an idiot, but gains in representation every election by also taking advantage of the contradictions of governing. These idiots did not use to grow, but now they do…and they are networked too now.
Well… Shit that’s concerning.
From one seat in my country to almost having a full right wing government in the last elections. Yeah, it’s not gonna end well for nobody if this shit keeps going up everywhere.
Trump was considered a fringe party to.
good point, but I worry about a loop of the media giving attention, making people more aware that this party exists, ignorant people give them more support, repeat. seems like a similar strategy happened in the us with our media giving trump endless headlines.
Finally an electable party in Japan!
A meaningful number of people globally want “revenge” on COVID. They are impotently raging along with the nearest angry person they can attach to. They don’t understand their feelings but they feel generally cheated. Many real issues layered on to, but that’s the motivating foundation.
They also are failed adults that just want a “daddy” to feel like he will make things better or “beat up” problems on their behalf (or more likely just make them feel like that’s happening, regardless of reality).
As a single (gay) woman over 30 who’s tired of having a uterus I’m moving to japan lmfao
Right, so to fight the declining birthrate, they entertain the idea that women over 25 should not be allowed to marry. And on top of that, women over the ripe, old age of 30 get their uteruses removed.
I am sure this totally would serve as an incentive to breed more and not at all make existing problems worse.
What a baka.
Right? It doesn’t even make sense for their own world view. I kind of suspect a translation mistake, but then again there seems to be no limit to conservative idiocy.
The only way it makes sense is to create an environment where women out of FOMO Mary and give birth early.
Also imagine asking the same thing for men lol these people would lose their mind. But that’s just the usual hypocrisy
They reason (and I want to stress that it’s their ideology, not mine) that men can keep doing crotchspawn when they are old. So the obvious solution is to force girls to marry and get breeded by men off all ages. /s but unfortunately not so much
men can keep doing crotchspawn when they are old.
But if women can’t, why would there be need for sterilization?
I know you’re probably right, just trying to point out the absurdity.
Risk of developmental difficulties increases with mother’s age.
Father’s age too, but I think that’s a lesser impact.
Also, having a threat towards women (but not men!) is just part of the selling point.
I’m not at all saying that these are good arguments, but they might be the motivating factor. Personally, I think it’s mostly about the threat to women.
Oh yes, of course this was pure misogyny. Plain and simple
Fucked on my ottoman?
wow the butchery seems to be going worldwide
Smart move for a country with a birth rate going off the cliffs and a terminal case of xenophobism.
My assumption is this is to increase the birth rate. The birth rate over 30 is probably lower, and putting a deadline forces you into a FOMO situation. You fear the consequences, so you just get married and have children.
Obviously, this is horrible for human rights (if you consider the rights of women to be human rights, which I at least do). I’m just saying it may be better for births than it appears. It’s like video games restricting sale of items can increase sales of them. The human brain is easily manipulated by FOMO, especially with something this severe I’d imagine.
The birth rate over 30 is probably lower, and putting a deadline forces you into a FOMO situation.
I’ve a heard a similar theory explaining why some (U.S.) Republicans want to ban fertility treatments: FOMO to have kids younger because you might not be able to later.
I personally think this will not work out the way they plan it to, bu there is a twisted train of thought behind it.
Yeah, I’m actually hella curious what the context was here. Why would he want any of that?
Maybe a Japanese politician should be aware of his country’s history on the matter before discussing forced sterilization…
If he’s anything like American conservatives he probably appreciates the comparison more than anything
What in the fuck did I just read
Something something weight loss.
Something something menopause.
The Japanese branch of the Taliban.
Free tube tying for everyone above 25? I knew about some villages in poor rural India and african countries that did this to limit teen pregnancy and over population. The complete opposite of what Japan is dealing with
I read uterus removal, not tube tying. Maybe a pedantic difference, but is he explicitly trying to highlight the threat value for the statement?
Odds are, neither the politician, nor the translator know the difference.
Free tube tying is really different from forced removal of a healthy organ, which is just mutilation.
And men will have their balls chopped off
why stop there, remove the head while you’re at it.
flat as a pancake.
女嫌いの捕食者。
What the fuck is even going on here, this doesn’t even align with their own weird agenda? This just seems psychotic for it’s own sake.
Is it really any different than forcing a woman to carry and raise her rapist’s child?
Or let her die on the way
Because a not child bearing mother is worthless anyway it seems
Shock and Awe. He will say some heinous shit in a few days that’s slightly less evil and that will sound reasonable to the rightoids
Basically how Trump speech got normalized in the west.
And then slowly go back to the original plan
Someone got jilted by a 17 year old
