all sorts of extremely mysoginistic pop culture suggests not that "the Japanese are so civilised", only that they are merely different. It's interesting that s

all sorts of extremely mysoginistic pop culture suggests not that "the Japanese are so civilised", only that they are merely different. It's interesting that sexual violence strikes such a chord with us westerners, but we think nothing of glamorizing gratuitous, sadistic physical violence. We have a popular television series where the hero is a psychopath serial killer with a heart of gold. In some of the Hannibal Lecter movies, Hannibal was arguably portrayed as a hero and he cannibalized people!