“While the 'ban' may sound farcical, this kind of sexism is dangerous, leading to inferior treatment of women or even unemployment,” Wolfe321 writes.
The hashtag “glasses are forbidden began trending Wednesday in the wake of a Nippon TV program revealing that employers from airlines to department stores are regulating women’s eyewear.
Whether it’s for so-called safety reasons or ridiculous ones like the fact that glasses obscure makeup or “don’t go” with traditional Japanese dress—or even that women working in stores “appear cold” behind them—women are fed up and speaking out. And, while the “ban” may sound farcical, this kind of sexism is dangerous, leading to inferior treatment of women or even unemployment.
“If the rules prohibit only women to wear glasses, this is a discrimination against women,” Kanae Doi, the Japan director at Human Rights Watch, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation today. The glasses protest is only the latest recent uprising against sexist norms in Japan. The country has a long history of dictating women’s dress in the workplace. In June, an actor named Yumi Ishikara created the hashtag #KuToo in response to another sexist workplace dress code: forcing women to wear heels at work.means “pain,” thereby creating a pun that also plays on the #MeToo movement.
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