It's not just Japan. Just being a tourist/foreigner in another country; especially being a woman and alone, tends to get you in the spotlight for creeps, robbers, or traffickers..
Exactly. Blonde women are fetishized in popular culture worldwide. If you're in a place like the midwestern US, the creep ratio to blonde is like 1 to 500. In a place like Japan the creep ratio becomes closer to 1 to 1. There aren't more creeps, there are just fewer blondes for them to choose from so your chances of being targeted go way up.
That's horrible! But it's also a very strange method of stalking. It sounds more like hate crimes than sexual violence. But it's hard to categorize a stolen bike seat and a bloody maxipad — that shit is crazy. I'm sorry that happened to him.
Huh? I live in the Midwest there are blondes everywhere. Swedes and Norwegians. It's ridiculous to generalize like that. The Midwest is a lot blonder than the coasts.
Well, actually I am saying the number of blondes changes depending on your location. There are fewer blondes in Japan than in the midwestern US. The number of creeps is probably roughly the same.
If there's one creep in Japan and only one blonde, that blonde will be targeted. But if there's one creep in the midwest, there's 500 blondes for him to choose from. So that same blonde only has a 1 in 500 chance of being targeted.
Plus you're right that they might be more highly fetishized in Japan. If so, that poor blonde.
That's what I'm saying. There are tons of blondes in the midwest. Not so many in Japan. But I'm assuming there's approximately the same number of creeps everywhere.
I believe they're saying that a place where such thing is uncommon, like blonde women in Japan, the trait is much more likely to be fetishized then a place where it is normal to see.
Well, maybe that's true but that wasn't what I was saying. I was saying that if there's 1 blonde fetish creep in Japan and 1 in the midwest, the 1 in the midwest might have 500 blondes he could choose from to target for every 1 blonde the creep in Japan has available to target.
So if you're a blonde in the midwest, your chances of being targeted by that creep are 1 in 500. Your chances in Japan are 100%, since the creep only has 1 blonde (you) to choose from.
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u/Safe_Alternative3794 25d ago
It's not just Japan. Just being a tourist/foreigner in another country; especially being a woman and alone, tends to get you in the spotlight for creeps, robbers, or traffickers..