女性＝セックス？
Problem of sexual objectification of females
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※このエッセイは日本語と英語を何度も整えて、大変でした…(*ノω・*)
この記事は女性への性的対象化の問題は、なぜ私たちの社会からどうやってもなくならないのか探ります。
This article will explore the reasons why the problem of sexual objectification of women in our society will never be solved.
関心がある方もそうでない方も楽しく読めると思いますので、時間があったら是非！
I hope you can enjoy the reading regardless of whether you have concern about this problem or not!
「性的対象化なんて僕はそんなことをしたことないんだ。だって僕の好きなアイドルグループに40人くらいいてもみんなは等しくかわいいと思うよ」などと男性の読者様は思うかもしれませんが、それには相違があります。
If you are a male, perhaps you might think “I have never thought of any women as mere sexual object, you know. Just look from the girl idol group I like, I can still see them as equally lovely even though there are around forty of them!” and such, but here I mean something different.
ただ気づいてほしいは女性は男性より、見た目でのレッテルが多いのではないかと。
That is, have you ever noticed how women are far more likely than men to be classified just by appearance?
男ならば『俳優』、『歌手』、『イケメン』などがあっても、女性の範囲は遥かに広くて、『アイドル』から、『JK』 、『女子大生』、『女子アナ』、『CA』、『短髪』、『長髪』、『コスプレ女子』、『ピアニスト女子』、『女性駅員』、『婦警』、云々と呼び方が多くあるようです。
While men might get labeled as an “actor”, a “singer,” or a “handsome guy,” as for women, such categorical way of calling can range from whether they are a “high school girl” or a “university student girl” to “female news anchor,” “flight attendant,” “long-haired girl,” “short-haired girl,” “cosplayer girl,” “pianist girl,” “female station attendant,” “female police officer,” and so on, which there are too many to count.
「え？それはいいじゃない？僕はどの立場の女性でも魅力を感じられるんだ」と男性の意見がまたあると思いますが、そのレッテルの貼り方でもまだ女性には違って、男性みたいに『俳優』、『歌手』のだれか人としてより、『JK』としか呼ばない場合は普通です。名前がないそれは。
There might be further opinions from men that “well? Isn’t it good that I can see the beauty in all women?” Nevertheless, the way of how women are being labeled is still different from the case of men, that is while we call men as mister such and such who is an “actor” or “singer” as a person, it is common for women to be only referred to something like a “high school girl.” And it is as if they do not have any real names.
少し目を瞑ってその呼び方を聞くだけなら、焼き肉屋で、単品のお肉の名前かと感じますが。
It is to the point that if we close our eyes for a moment and just listen to such ways of how women are being called, it may sound no different from the how we call parts of meat in the menu of a yakiniku restaurant.
この社会の風景ははっきりと意識しない女性の方もいるかもしれませんが、曖昧に自分は『商品』だと感じると思います。
This phenomenon is not something that can be easily expressed in words and thus women might not be much vocal in general, but I believe that they probably still feel that they are somehow being looked upon as “products” in the society.
しかし、「女性の権利を取り戻そう！」などは今回の記事の話ではないです。
Nevertheless, this article does not intend to say that we should “fight for women’s rights!” or the like.
もし私のほかの『エッセイ』を読んだら、私はとても悲観的だとわかります。
Because if you read other “essays” of mine, you probably know how much of a pessimist I am.
この風景を見て、多分フェミニズムの考え方がある方に対して、女性は男性からの『家長政治』を解放する方法、何よりも一番しやすいのが『スカート』のことを解決すると思うのではないかと。
Facing with such situation, perhaps feminists or whoever that at least have concern about women’s wellbeing might be pondering that above all else, the easiest way that women can be freed from patriarchy is to solve the problem of “skirts.”
スカートのせいでJKの趣味が誕生して、もし女性は男性と平等にズボンを履いていつも男性が足を覗いてドキドキする存在でなければ、男女平等の始まりだと。
Well, isn’t because of skirts that people started to fetichize high school girls? And that if women are able to wear trousers the same way men do and so nobody keeps paying attention to their legs anymore, it should be the beginning of equality between both sexes, right?
……結構外れると思います。
I think that such idea is rather off the mark.
そういう思考がある方により、いろんな学校で女子の制服はスラックスにするのは社会的な向上だと考えるかもしれませんが、忘れないでほしいことがあります。
As for people who cherish such thought, they might find how numbers of schools nowadays started using slacks as a uniform for girl students to be advancement of the society, but I would like you to keep this in mind.
ちょっと強い発言で言いたいのですが、男性はどれくらいムラムラって気づきませんか？
Sorry for my expression, but don’t you really know how horny men are?
要は女性の服装は何もチラチラ見えなくても、男性の目で見たら、女の身体から関連のあるものごとまでを見たら性欲になれます。例えば女性はちゃんとパンツスーツを着てJKの姿ではなくても、キャリアウーマンとか、女性の上司とかの趣味の男性もいます。
The problem is that even though women wear clothes that do not expose any sensitive parts of their bodies, as for men, they are still good at finding everything relating to women to be arousal. For example, if the woman is wearing proper and good-looking suit instead of short skirt uniform of a high school student, there would still be men who find working woman or female boss as objects to fetishize.
その目で見たら、女性はどれくらい身体を隠してもまだ妄想できます。
With such an eye, no matter how women cover themselves, men would still be able to imagine in any way that satisfies them.
もし読者様は最近Wokeの運動を聞いたら、その中の女性を『醜くする』促しがあります。それは女性は根本的に美しくなりたいのは自らより、男性の欲望のせいだと見られます。
And if you have ever heard about the Woke movement, the push for the “uglier” female representation is also part of it. That is because the urge to become prettier among women is being viewed as driven by men’s desire rather than it being what women naturally wish to.
例えばミスジャパンみたいです。綺麗な姿でハイヒールを履くのが好きな女性がいても、大体男性の欲望を満たせて、参加する女性は自分の意思より、家長政治なのでキャリアの進路が男性より少ないせいで、参加するのは強制されるようだと。
Such as with Miss Japan beauty pageant. Even though there might be women who wish to be beautiful, wearing elegant dress along with high heels and shine radiantly on the stage, there are also opinions that this is not their own volition, but rather because of patriarchy that their career advancement is limited, and thus the situation forces them to participate in the event.
それは廃止すべきかどうか私はわかりませんが、（男ならばお金があったら何でもページェントに参加すると思いますが）実はフェミニズムかWokeの運動はゲーム業界まで着きます。
While I would not presume to judge whether the beauty pageant should be abolished or not (as for men, I doubt that they would participate in all kind of pageants if there is monetary incentive), in fact what we call feminism or the Woke movement encroaches further into the gaming industry too.
ゲーム業界の女性の性的な描写への運動、男性に対して女性のキャラクターを醜くすることがかなり海外の話ですが、日本でも昔からスカートの女性キャラクターと言ったら下着を覗けるのは定番ですが、影響を受けたので最近スカートの下に短パンになるのが多いです。
Although the movement against the sexual portrayal of female in gaming industry, in which female characters are made to be more unappealing to men, is still somewhat only a trend in the western countries, as for Japanese games that up until now usually let players take a peek inside female characters’ skirts also, because of such movement, there are many recent games that have characters wearing shorts under skirts instead.
また、それは何かが助かるか、と私は思います。
Still, I wonder if this would help anything.
すべての目立つ性的対象化のことがなくても、まだ一番問題は『男性の目』ではないですか。
Even if all sorts of sexual objectification is over, isn’t what is the most problematic is still “the way men took at women”?
男性の方は気づかないかもしれませんが、外でたまに女性はマスクを付けるし、俯いて歩くのはたまに違和感になる、じっと見る男性の視線、または接触を避けるためです。
In case that you are a male, you might not have noticed how some women wear masks and try not to meet people’s eyes in public just because they try to avoid eye contact from men, or to have any interaction with them.
「僕はただ君がきれいと思って見たよう、自慢できることだろう。ふふふふ」と思う男性の場合なら、女性の視点をわからない方の証明書を嬉しくあげたいです。
By that, if as a male you think that “I just look at you because you are pretty. You should feel proud, right? Hahahaha,” I am pleased to give you the certificate that you are the person that do not understand women at all.
もし性的対象化の問題を倒そうとすれば、この性欲の目の問題は最後の段階です。
If you are wish to end sexual objectification for good, these lustful eyes are going to be the last problem that needs to be solved.
しかしながら、もう先に言う通りに、私たちは具体的に何ができるか？という質問があります。
But as I have said before that there is still a question of whether if there really is anything we can do to solve it.
例えJKのみんなはスラックスを履いて、女性は男と同じ立場でキャリアに進めて、ミスジャパンはもうやめてゲームの女性のキャラクターのすべては平均の見た目になっても、まだ道に歩くときに男性にじっと見られたら、どうしますか？
For example, even if all high school girls wear slacks and women have the same opportunity in career advancement with men, also Miss Japan beauty pageant no longer continues and that all female characters in the video games have average looks, but still when you walk along the streets the men are ogling at you as always, what are you going to do?
その平等の運動は、男性の視線を強制までしますか？
Should this equality movement forcefully restrict where men should look at too?
フェミニズムに賛成する男性、上記の性的対象化を批判する方がいて、舐めるように女性を見ないかもしれませんが、性欲がほかの男性より劣っているわけでないと思います。
There are of course men who are feminists that criticize sexual objectification as I mentioned who may not so explicitly ogle at women, but I doubt that they have any less sexual desire that other men.
もしその優しい男性は、女性の読者様をかわいいと思いながら、裏で彼らは男性らしく読者様のことを想像で性的対象にして自分にあまりよくないことをしたら、その行動は認められるのだろうか。
So, what if while such men do seem to be loving and kindhearted and you might find them to be cute, privately they still objectify you sexually in their imagination and do something not fit to be mentioned here with themselves, would such behavior be acceptable?
（生憎、これは大体の男性の習慣だと思います）
(Unfortunately, I think this is the habit of most men.)
目だけではなく、性的対象化を撤去して社会を浄化するために彼らの思考までコントロールすべきですか。
Thus, not only their eyes, in order to get rid of sexual objectification and cleanse our society we should control their thoughts too?
この問題は永遠に終わらないように見えないではないですか。
Doesn’t it seem like that there is no end to this problem?
逆にもしこれが家父長制みたいな社会の違った進路てまはなく、男性の自然な性質でどうしても変わらないのならば？
Instead of this being rooted in patriarchy or is something that has gone wrong in our society, what if it is what men naturally are and won’t be changed for whatever we do?
これで解決ではないですが、男は女性を優しい目で見る日が来ないかもしれないので、女性が男の考え方に慣れた方が現実的だと思います。
I will not say that this is a solution, but since we might not be able to convince men to care for women’s feelings any more than this, I think it would be more practical for women to familiarize themselves with men’s way of thinking.
性的に見られるのは嫌だし、男社会にいるのは無力だと感じて、女性専用の社会を作るのがわが国の解決方法だと思います。
With how we feel disgusted to be looked upon sexually, and also for the powerlessness of our existence within the male-dominated society, it seems that our country have created the female-only societies to solve the problems.
その女性社会で女性は女性同士しか付き合わなくて、芸術やほかのかわいいことなど女性らしい暮らしをして、この安全な環境で女性の力を取り戻せるようだと感じます。
Within such female-only societies, women would keep contact with only other women, participating in arts and crafts or other activities deemed lovely and fit for women, so that in this safe environment we may feel that we are stronger once again.
ですが、自分が力があると感じるのは自分が強くなったからか、ただ男がいないので、見比べるのはほかの女性同士だからか。
However, the question is that if such feeling of power is obtained by how we really get stronger, or is it just because there are no men around so we only do compare ourselves with other women?
結局女性のみの社会ということは、もっと大きな社会でただ男は女性のために角を切って、多分家屋の池のような、彼らは静かにカラフルな女性たちを鑑賞できるところではないかと。
Then, isn’t what is called female-only society small a place in the corner of a much bigger society where men fenced off, probably being like a fishpond in the house, as the place where men can use to relax and observe the colors of their beauty?
この話について、アニメ『荒ぶる季節の乙女どもよ。』について、例えを挙げたいのですが。
To illustrate this matter, I would like to use the anime “O Maidens in Your Savage Season” as an example.
このアニメは思春期の恋愛などの感情と向き合う女子高生たちの話です。女性らしいストーリーを通じて、全体的に「ありのままの女性とはこうだ」と視聴者へのメッセージがあって、女性の存在を意識させることのようだと感じます。しかし、少年向けだったら、そんなことをすべきだろうかと。
The story of this anime is about a group of high school girls who have to tackle with their teenage emotions and loves. Through the plot that is told mainly from female points of view, the overall message is somewhat to show “women as being themselves,” which probably with an intention to raise awareness of women’s presence in the society. Yet, when we look at manga or anime that cater towards male readers, I doubt if there is a need for any message at all.
そういう男子向け作品は主人公が世界を救おうとしながらかわいい女子のハーレムを自由に作れて、作者がほしいままにチラチラのシーンを入れられるのに、なぜか女子向けストーリーは現実の世界の反射かと、女性キャラクターは女性同士でかわいいことをするばかりです。
In such manga or anime for male readers, even though the protagonists are freely making harems full of lovely girls as a side quest to saving the world, not to mention that the authors can also add all kinds of sexy scenes to their heart’s content, for some reason in girl stories, it is as if being a reflection of the real world that female characters just stay with other women in group, doing cute things together.
『荒ぶる季節の乙女どもよ。』は女子５人の中に男嫌いのレズが１人いて、考えればセーラームーンや多くの女子向けの作品にもそういうキャラクターがいます。ところが少年向けストーリーと見比べると男５人の中にゲイ１人が定番ではないなんて、女性と女性の恋愛、または『荒ぶる季節の乙女どもよ。』のように男嫌いレズキャラクターの存在があるとどのように女性の力を取れるのかわかりません。
In “O Maidens in Your Savage Season,” out of five of the main characters one is a lesbian, which in Sailor Moon and many other works targeting female readers there are such characters too. But if we are to compare it with stories for male, we would never find any norm that out of five guys there should be one gay character, and I do not know that in what way would the love between females, or in the case of “O Maidens in Your Savage Season,” the presence of a man-hating lesbian character, become any strength to females.
女性が強くなる意味はただ男がいないようにするのは、日本での信仰ではないかと。
Perhaps in Japan, we do believe that by empowering women, it means that we just make sure there are no men around them.
実は『荒ぶる季節の乙女どもよ。』の著者とアニメの脚本家は女の方ですが。
And actually, the author and also the screenwriter of the anime “O Maidens in Your Savage Season” is a female.
力を持った女性で自由にどんな作品を書ける立場になって、男にコントロールされていると言えなくても、自ら女性は女性とのストーリーを書いて、恋愛が足りないと感じたらレズのキャラクターを入れる現象があります。よく見ると社会の風景を曖昧に把握できると、女性として生きづらいといつか思ったら、すべては本当に男性のせいなのでしょうか。
Even with women who want to push for the empowerment of their gender that are in the position to freely write any stories they want, which cannot be said anymore that they are being controlled by men, they would still write females only stories, that when there is not enough love interest they simply add another lesbian character. Upon our seeing such phenomenon time and again and thus being able to roughly understand how our society is, whenever we think that it is hard to live as a woman, should we really blame the so-called patriarchy for everything?
避けることが多い、女性だと何が相応しいか関心が多い性は、生まれてから遥かに自由を持つ性と比べると、身体的ではなく、精神的にも小さくするような性は、競争できる立場ではないだろう。
If we are to compare one sex that has a long list of things to avoid and has to worry about propriety all the time, to the other sex that has much more freedom since birth, I am not sure that they would not be in a position to compete with each other. And that is not only physically, but also mentally that one sex keeps it timid too.
実際に女性への性的対象化は最初家父長制など男性のやることのせいでしたが、定着した後に続けているのは女性たち自身のようです。
In fact, at first sexual objectification of women may have caused by patriarchy, but then when such rule is settled, perhaps the ones who continue to keep it alive are the women themselves.
