The other day, I was at my friend’s house, and we were watching an adult movie about lesbians. Actually, that is not quite true: we were just watching TV, and suddenly, a commercial came on that featured some very pretty young girls kissing each other in an extremely sexual way. I couldn’t believe my eyes! I think the idea was that they were passing chocolate to each other “mouth-to-mouth,” but of course, it looked like they were kissing. <\/p>\n
As you are probably aware, I know next to nothing about popular Japanese culture, but my friend told me that these girls were from a pop group called AKB-48. <\/p>\n
“Why are they kissing each other?” I asked?
\n“It’s just a commercial,” he replied. <\/p>\n
Actually, I have heard of AKB-48. Some people might think they are quite new, but in fact, the music company have been trying to promote the concept of AKB-48 for a long time. When I used to watch American Idol many years ago, the TV station was trying to push AKB-48 by having them comment on the acts after the show. Their comments were about as idiotic as you would imagine, and I always turned off when they came on. Anyway, I never heard any more about them, so I thought they had disappeared, but now, apparently, they are really big. <\/p>\n
Having said that, I believe that the members of this “group” keep changing, so it is not really the same group at all. From what I have read on the Japan Today<\/em> site, I also understand that many of the “fans” of this group are dirty old men with a fetish for young girls, which is, I guess, why they have made a commercial showing them kissing each other. <\/p>\n As many of you are mothers of young children, I was wondering what you think about this. Do you think these people are appropriate role models for 12- and 13-year old girls? Do you think commercials like this should be shown on public television?<\/p>\n Look forward to hearing your thoughts.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The other day, I was at my friend’…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5624,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.btbpress.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5622"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.btbpress.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.btbpress.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.btbpress.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.btbpress.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.btbpress.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.btbpress.com\/ja\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.btbpress.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.btbpress.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.btbpress.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}