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知りたい!:「高級」「格安」 下着選びも二極化
<2006・チャンネルYou> 毎日新聞 2006年2月10日 東京夕刊 ブラジャー1枚が1万円を超す「高級下着」の愛用者が、じわじわと増えている。フランスやイタリアからの輸入物が中心。片や「格安実用派」も増えており、ここでも進む二極化。さて、高級下着に秘められた女心とは?【國保環】 ◇男性の目より自分への自信 東京・新宿の伊勢丹本店は輸入下着の売り上げが毎年10%ずつ伸びている。「今や売り上げは売り場全体の3割。さらにパイを広げています」と、仕入れ担当の阿部小百合さん。大阪市のそごう心斎橋本店はもっと顕著で、輸入物の売り上げが4割を超え、売り場配置も輸入物重視に変えた。 売れ筋はショーツで7000~1万円、ブラジャーで1万~3万円。主な購買層は30~40代という。職業などは不明だが、「セレブ」と言われる高所得層だけでこの成長はあり得ず、おしゃれな会社員や主婦らが市場を広げているとみられる。 こうした状況に、国内最大手のワコール(京都市)も、東京・銀座の直営店でしか売らなかった高級ブランド「WACOAL DIA(ワコールディア)」を2月末から百貨店でも販売する。イタリアの人気下着ブランド「ラ・ペルラ」と国内での販売契約も結び、国産、インポート両面での対策を取っている。 「日本では下着は実用衣料という見方が根強いけれど、欧米的に服のようなファッション性を求める女性が増えてきた」。矢野経済研究所で下着の市場調査を担当する秋吉千晴研究員の実感だ。 ただ、同研究所の意識調査で、ブラジャーの購入価格は「5000円未満」が約76%。秋吉さんは「下着も低価格商品が増え、『見えないから2000円のもので十分』という人も増えている。高級と格安の二極化はさらに進む」とみている。 一方、東京都内で輸入下着専門店を営み、「下着業界のカリスマ」と呼ばれる龍多美子さんは、高級市場拡大の背景に「女性たちのアンチエイジング(抗老化)志向がある」とみる。 「寄せる」「透けない」など、素材や機能で“進化”してきた日本の女性下着。そこには、男性など「他者の目」に対する意識がある。それに対し、今の高級志向は「着けている自分に、満足感と自信が持てる。『私は女を捨てない』という自分への叱咤(しった)。そんな精神的要素が大きいのではないでしょうか」と言う。自身もインポート下着ファンでそごうと西武百貨店を傘下に持つミレニアムリテイリングのバイヤー、川口美代子さんも「外から見えないからこそ、よりゴージャスな満足感が得られる」と話している。 毎日新聞 2006年2月10日 東京夕刊 #
by alfayoko2005
| 2006-02-10 18:48
| ジェンダー・セックス
The New York Times
Op-Ed Contributor Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Ex-Gay Cowboys By DAN SAVAGE Published: February 10, 2006 Seattle FIRST, a little of that full disclosure stuff: I have not actually seen "Brokeback Mountain" or "End of the Spear," both of which I'm going to discuss here. But since when did not seeing a film prevent anyone from sharing his or her strong opinions about it? Before the posters for "Brokeback Mountain" were even printed, everyone from the blogger Mickey Kaus to the Concerned Women for America to gay men all over the country had already said a lot about the film. (Their opinions were, respectively, con, con and pro.) So, let's get to it: Remember when straight actors who played gay were the ones taking a professional risk? Those days are over. Shortly after Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal, both straight, received Oscar nominations for playing gay cowboys in "Brokeback Mountain," conservative Christians were upset when they learned that a gay actor, Chad Allen, was playing a straight missionary in "End of the Spear." "End of the Spear" tells what happened after five American missionaries were murdered in 1956 by a tribe in Ecuador. Instead of seeking retribution, the missionaries' families reached out to the tribe, forgave the killers and eventually converted them to Christianity. An evangelical film company, Every Tribe Entertainment, brought the story to the screen. In a glowing review, Marcus Yoars, a film critic for Focus on the Family, noted that the "martyrdom" of the slain missionaries has "inspired thousands if not millions of Christians." But after conservatives took a closer look at the cast list, the protests began. Many felt Chad Allen's presence in the film negated any positive message. The pastors claim they're worried about what will happen when their children rush home from the movies, Google Chad Allen's name, and discover that he's a "gay activist." ("Gay activist" is a term evangelicals apply to any homosexual who isn't a gay doormat.) They needn't be too concerned. Straight boys who have unsupervised access to the Internet aren't Googling the names of middle-aged male actors gay or straight — not when Paris Hilton's sex tapes are still out there. Frankly, I can't help but be perplexed by the criticisms of Mr. Allen from the Christian right. After all, isn't playing straight what evangelicals have been urging gay men to do? That's precisely what Jack and Ennis attempt to do in "Brokeback Mountain" — at least, according to people I know who have actually seen the film. These gay cowboys try, as best they can, to quit one another. They marry women, start families. But their wives are crushed when they realize their husbands don't, and can't, ever really love them. "Brokeback Mountain" makes clear that it would have been better for all concerned if Jack and Ennis had lived in a world where they could simply be together. That world didn't exist when Jack and Ennis were pitching tents together, but it does now — even in the American West. Today, the tiny and stable percentage of men who are gay are free to live openly, and those who want to settle down and start families can do so without having to deceive some poor, unsuspecting woman. Straight audiences are watching and loving "Brokeback Mountain" — that's troubling to evangelical Christians who have invested a decade and millions of dollars promoting the notion that gay men can be converted to heterosexuality, or become "ex-gay." It is, they insist, an ex-gay movement, although I've never met a gay man who was moved to join it. This "movement" demands more from gay men than simply playing straight. Once a man can really pass as ex-gay — once he's got some Dockers, an expired gym membership and a bad haircut — he's supposed to become, in effect, an ex-gay missionary, reaching out to the hostile gay tribes in such inhospitable places as Chelsea and West Hollywood. What should really trouble evangelicals, however, is this: even if every gay man became ex-gay tomorrow, there still wouldn't be an ex-lesbian tomboy out there for every ex-gay cowboy. Instead, millions of straight women would wake up one morning to discover that they had married a Jack or an Ennis. Restaurant hostesses and receptionists at hair salons would be especially vulnerable. Sometimes I wonder if evangelicals really believe that gay men can go straight. If they don't think Chad Allen can play straight convincingly for 108 minutes, do they honestly imagine that gay men who aren't actors can play straight for a lifetime? And if anyone reading this believes that gay men can actually become ex-gay men, I have just one question for you: Would you want your daughter to marry one? Evangelical Christians seem sincere in their desire to help build healthy, lasting marriages. Well, if that's their goal, encouraging gay men to enter into straight marriages is a peculiar strategy. Every straight marriage that includes a gay husband is one Web-browser-history check away from an ugly divorce. If anything, supporters of traditional marriage should want gay men out of the heterosexual marriage market entirely. And the best way to do that is to see that we're safely married off — to each other, not to your daughters. Let gay actors like Chad Allen only play it straight in the movies. Dan Savage is the editor of The Stranger, a Seattle newsweekly. #
by alfayoko2005
| 2006-02-10 14:08
| LGB(TIQ)
January 31, 2006
Covered Mountain The author of Covering: The Hidden Assault on our Civil Rights sees the gay rights movement as a history of weakening demands for assimilation. So where does Brokeback fit in? By Kenji Yoshino Brokeback Mountain continues to bring gay life out of the closet as never before, as suggested by its commercial success (over $42 million at the box office) and critical plaudits (four Golden Globes and eight Oscar nominations). On the other hand, the movie continues to accede to various demands to conform to straight norms. In walking that tightrope, the movie reflects where we are in the unfolding saga of gay rights. The history of gay rights can be retold as a history of increasingly weakening demands for assimilation: the demand to convert, the demand to pass, and the demand to cover. Through the middle decades of the 20th century, gays were routinely pressured to convert to heterosexuality—whether through lobotomies, electroshock therapy, or psychoanalysis. As the gay rights movement gained traction, the demand to convert gradually shifted in emphasis toward the demand to pass. Gays would be left alone as long as they remained in the closet. This shift is exemplified by the military’s 1993 movement from categorically excluding gays to its current “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, under which gays can serve as long as they remain in the closet. Today, we are seeing another shift. Gays are increasingly allowed to be open about their homosexuality as long as they “cover”—sociologist Erving Goffman’s word for how individuals “tone down” known stigmatized traits. In some sectors of American society, it’s all right to be openly gay as long as you don’t “flaunt” your sexuality, by, for instance, holding hands with a same-sex partner, engaging in gay activism, or behaving in gender-atypical ways. Brokeback Mountain, which spans two decades beginning in 1963, depicts cowboys trapped in the first two generations of gay history. The emotionally frozen Ennis can never fully embrace his love for Jack because he has been subjected to a particularly terrifying form of conversion therapy. When he was 9, his father took him to see a man who had been beaten to death for having “ranched up” with another man. The heterosexual imperative reflected in that murder drives both Ennis and Jack to marry women. But Jack believes a different life is possible—he tries to persuade Ennis that they can inhabit a closet built for two. The tragedy of the film is that Jack is too far ahead of his time—it is the less courageous Ennis who survives. From a gay perspective, the film is bearable to watch only from the vantage of the present day. Of course, gay hate crimes continue—Wyoming, where Brokeback is set, is also where 21-year-old Matthew Shepherd was murdered in 1998. But if Jack and Ennis were alive today, they would have had a shot at living a different story, as the warm reception accorded the film suggests. At the same time, the significant opposition to the film shows the distance gays have yet to travel. Conservative critics have denounced the film as “homosexual propaganda,” a “commercial for gay marriage,” or the “rape of the Marlboro man.” A theater in Utah went so far as to pull the film from distribution. Like many openly gay individuals today, the film has responded to this opposition by covering. Even the film’s most ardent advocates have “de-gayed” it to make it more palatable to the mainstream. Focus Features, which released Brokeback, published ads that feature Ennis and Jack with their on-screen wives rather than with each other. Adulatory commentators have insisted that the film is a love story that transcends its gay particulars with such ferocity that they implicitly concede those particulars are deeply shameful. And of course, much of the film’s appeal is that Jack and Ennis are real cowboys—so straight-acting they evade the gay stereotype. Gays will not achieve full equality until a film does not need to cover in these ways to have mainstream appeal. But perhaps the concessions made by the film only make Brokeback more poignant. They testify to the difficulty of moving beyond the covering demand toward full liberation. We should not expect love that was for so long unspeakable to break its silence without a quaver. Kenji Yoshino is professor of law and deputy dean for intellectual life at Yale Law School. He specializes in antidiscrimination law and constitutional law. His book, Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights, was published by Random House on January 17. #
by alfayoko2005
| 2006-02-10 09:07
| LGB(TIQ)
Last Updated: Thursday, 9 February 2006, 14:16 GMT
Japan baby could end royal reform By Sarah Buckley BBC News Conservatives within Japan's hidebound imperial household must be rejoicing at a miracle pregnancy. News that Princess Kiko, the 39-year-old wife of the emperor's second son, is expecting a child in the autumn may save them from their worst fear - the prospect of women ascending the Chrysanthemum Throne. For months Japan has witnessed a mounting debate over whether the Imperial Household Law - which allows only male heirs - should be amended. With no male heir born into the imperial family since 1965, supporters of change looked to have nearly won the argument. But Princess Kiko's pregnancy has at least stalled the process, and even - if she gives birth to a boy - ended it for some time. SUCCESSION PRESSURES Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, who had pledged to get the succession law changed by the end of Parliament's current session in June, has turned more cautious. "It's desirable that the legislation be enacted when everyone can support it," he said on Wednesday, one day after news of Princess Kiko's pregnancy caught Japan by surprise. His turnaround suggests that he may no longer be willing to take on powerful, conservative forces opposed to female succession. News of the princess' pregnancy - which is still in its earliest stages - was probably leaked by an imperial household member. The fact the source was willing to risk going public so soon may indicate how desperate some royal officials are to scuttle the succession law debate. Christopher Hood, director of Cardiff University's Japanese Studies Centre, said he thought Mr Koizumi was more likely to have been influenced by opposition within his own Cabinet than from the Imperial Household. The Japanese public seems broadly supportive of letting women take the throne, according to opinion polls. But politicians in Mr Koizumi's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) appear more divided, with several Cabinet members making less than positive comments about the proposed change in recent days, including Foreign Minister Taro Aso. Mr Aso is a potential successor to Mr Koizumi, who has said he plans to step down as LDP leader in September. Mr Koizumi may be worried that pressing ahead with the politically controversial change could tie his hands on other reform plans he may have for his last few months of power. "This is linked to the LDP succession crisis, never mind the royal succession crisis," Mr Hood said. Reports say that Princess Kiko is only about six or seven weeks pregnant, and so it should be possible to determine the sex of her baby in about 10 weeks time, by the end of April - before the Parliament's session ends in June. If the baby turns out to be a boy, support for changing the law would quickly dwindle. If a girl, Mr Koizumi might just have time to introduce a bill, but he may not want to risk such a rush. Princess Kiko's pregnancy could therefore have ended the debate before it even reached parliament. Male domination It is easy to assume that opposition to change, in a male-dominated society such as Japan, is rooted in a fear of empowering women. But analysts argued this was not the case. "I always thought that it's nothing to do with gender equality," said Hiroko Takeda, lecturer at Sheffield University's School of East Asian Studies. She said it had more to do with preserving Japan's traditions, with the monarchy's hierarchy at its heart. "The gender issue isn't important in this," agreed Ichiyo Muto, president of the People's Planned Study Group, an organisation which studies alternative political and social systems. He said conservatives recognised the need to shore up the monarchy by sorting out the succession issue. One member of the royal family, Prince Tomohito, has suggested expanding the royal circle to include more potential male heirs, and even reintroducing concubines. But Mr Muto said the conservatives' overriding concern was to proceed cautiously, given the enormity of the change. "They at least want to resist the kind of easy attitude with which Koizumi brought it up," he said. If Princess Kiko does give birth to a boy in the autumn, it provides an easy solution to the succession, at least for another generation. But it does not mean Japan can avoid the debate forever. "If the boy dies in some accident, they still haven't a clear policy on who comes next," Mr Hood said. Pregnancy may force rethink on female heirs for Japan throne #
by alfayoko2005
| 2006-02-10 02:12
| ジェンダー・セックス
URL: http://www.aclu.org/lgbt/crimjustice/24111prs20060208.html
Judge Blasts Hawai’i Juvenile Detention Facility for Pervasive Harassment of Gay and Transgender Youth (2/8/2006) FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: media@aclu.org Issues Findings in ACLU Federal Lawsuit on Youths’ Behalf HONOLULU – In the first case in the country to specifically address the treatment of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender youth in juvenile facilities, a federal judge has agreed with the American Civil Liberties Union that conditions at the Hawai’i Youth Correctional Facility (HYCF) are dangerous, that harassment is pervasive, and that the facility is “in a state of chaos.” The ruling came in response to a federal civil rights lawsuit the ACLU filed in September on behalf of three young people who say they’ve been abused and harassed because of their sexual orientation and gender identity while at the facility. The judge is expected to issue specific instructions on what steps HYCF must take to address the problems at the facility within the next two weeks. “While the conditions at HYCF are particularly bad, this should serve as a wake-up call to the juvenile justice system throughout the U.S.,” said Tamara Lange, a staff attorney with the ACLU’s national Lesbian and Gay Rights Project. “Citizens entrust the government to protect our most troubled youth and teach them how to be productive citizens, and this facility has failed miserably at providing even the most basic guarantee of safety for these vulnerable young people.” In his 77-page order, U.S. District Judge J. Michael Seabright blasted HYCF officials for allowing such incidents as the following to take place: *Staff routinely call LGBT youth slurs like “fag,” “butchie,” “fruitcake,” “fucking little bitches,” and “fucking cunts.”The Hawai’i Youth Correctional Facility (HYCF) is one of two facilities is the state where minors who have had trouble with the law are sent primarily for rehabilitation. The court made preliminary findings that paint a picture of a punitive, terrifying atmosphere for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender youth at the facility. Citing an extensive list of shocking incidents, the judge found that officials at the Hawai’i Office of Youth Services and HYCF ignored and sometimes even participated in an atmosphere of anti-gay harassment, humiliation, and fear for youth in the facility, despite repeated pleas by doctors and psychologists who were concerned about the wards’ safety and well-being. “We’re certainly pleased that the judge understood just how hazardous the conditions at HYCF are for the young people in its care,” said Lois Perrin, Legal Director of the ACLU of Hawai’i. “This ruling clears the way for what we hope will be tremendous, desperately-needed changes in Hawai’i’s juvenile justice system.” Representing a 17-year-old male-to-female transgender girl, an 18-year-old lesbian, and an 18-year-old boy perceived to be gay, the ACLU claims that the young people are being singled out for mistreatment by staff because of their sexual orientation and gender identity and that the facility failed to adequately protect them. The ACLU of Hawai’i has long been involved in efforts to improve conditions at HYCF. In 2003, the ACLU issued a 34-page report detailing systemic problems at the facility. A year later, the U.S. Department of Justice also launched an investigation into conditions, policies, and practices at HYCF, and on August 4, 2005, released its findings. Like the ACLU, the Department of Justice found widespread violations of the Constitutional rights of juveniles in the facility. Recognizing that youth often face anti-LGBT harassment and abuse in foster care and out-of-home care, including in juvenile detention and correctional facilities, the Child Welfare League of America will soon publish best practices guidelines for working with LGBT youth in child welfare and juvenile justice systems. The ACLU of Hawai’i is working with the national ACLU Lesbian and Gay Rights Project in handling the case, with assistance from Paul Alston and Mei-Fei Kuo of Alston Hunt Floyd & Ing and Angela Padilla, Matthew Hall, Derik Fettig, Maya Hoffman, and Natalie Naugle of Morrison & Foerster LLP. The judge’s order, other legal documents, and additional information on the case, R.G., et al. v. Koller, et al. can be viewed online at: www.aclu.org/caseprofiles #
by alfayoko2005
| 2006-02-09 13:20
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