there’s an interesting play on a homophone across english and japanese that might be relevant today given how it’s a popular twitter hashtag and twitter is melting down
during the #metoo movement, there were issues going on in japan, which also has a ton of sexist social problems, and among those issues famously were that some japanese companies literally forced their female employees to wear high heels (and glasses sometimes, too) because it made them sexier. yes, really
so 靴＝くつ=shoe became a rallying cry for japanese feminists
in japanese, to japanese folks, つ sounds like “too”, so ***kutsu*** became ***kutoo*** in order to mirror the ***metoo*** movement
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there’s an interesting play on a homophone across english and japanese that might be relevant today given how it’s a popular twitter hashtag and twitter is melting down
during the #metoo movement, there were issues going on in japan, which also has a ton of sexist social problems, and among those issues famously were that some japanese companies literally forced their female employees to wear high heels (and glasses sometimes, too) because it made them sexier. yes, really
so 靴＝くつ=shoe became a rallying cry for japanese feminists
in japanese, to japanese folks, つ sounds like “too”, so ***kutsu*** became ***kutoo*** in order to mirror the ***metoo*** movement
[#kutoo](https://twitter.com/search?q=%23kutoo)
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