Prince Akishino, second in line to the throne, and his wife, just announced they are having another child.
What a coincidence! At age 39 (the wife, that is) and with their youngest daughter being 11 years old already, it only makes sense that they would want another child, right? It can't possibly have anything to do with internal rivalry in the Royal family - of course not.
To top it all off, of course, that pussy PM Koizumi and his lapdog Abe are now backing off the royal succession bill they had planned to rush through the diet that would have allowed females to ascend the throne, just in case it's a boy. Of course if it is a girl, well, I guess they just hop back on the bandwagon.
Funny, though, I don't hear anyone screaming about the possibility of a male heir to the throne studying overseas and getting involved with a blue-eyed foreigner women.
Now that they marry outside the former aristocracy to dilute their horribly in-bred gene pool, any male in-line to the throne could get involved with a foreigner, too. That could have happened all along.
Hmmmm...I guess that former trade minister Hiranuma and people who agree with him don't think that a man would do that.
Only a silly women would get involved with a foreigner, give birth to a half-bred mutant monster child and soil the Royal blood-lines forever.
I suppose if a man were to get involved with a foreigner, guys like Hiranuma would just push to reinstate concubines (of pure blood only), or something, to preserve the Royal line.
What about male concubines for an Empress?
Or, realistically, what if Princess Kiko has a son, but with a serious birth defect or disability? I hate to say it, but giving birth at 39 does have it's risks.
The more I think about it the crazier it gets...
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Or for that matter, a woman with brown eyes and black hair and brown skin. If Hisahito, after he grows up, and a black woman fall in love and get married that'll piss off everyone who has a fetish for Asian women or black men and badmouths Asian men or black women. :)
To knock down barriers, you have to be willing to let some people get crushed underneath it right along with their prejudices.
And good riddance to them!
Not suprisingly, as soon as a male heir popped up all that noise disappeared with it. No one seems to be too worried about what a male heir might do, it's only when the prospect of leaving things to a woman comes up.
In modern Japan, their is some pretty deep rooted misogyny to go along with mother complexes. Add race to the equation and it gets ugly.
Considering the number of men who were raised entirely their mothers because their fathers weren't there, you'd think there would be a little more respect for women in society in general, eh?
On the flip side, though, Japanese men get unfairly and indescriminent carpet bombed with critisim by Japanese women, especially overseas.
Japan today probably isn't all that different from what North America was like not so long ago, though.
It's a tough situation.
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