Quote Originally Posted by Yuki Akuma View Post
Japan is actually a really conservative country when it comes to gender politics. Especially back in 2001.
Japan is an incredibly conservative country in most ways - people just tend to look at a handful of weird things and assume the country must be wall to wall bizarre, when that really isn't the case. Plus, it's not like the presence of a really weird fringe is in any way an indicator that the dominant culture isn't conservative; if anything those places tend to have the weirdest fringe counter cultures.