Hairy Chest = Sexual Harassment?

OK. This recent "Hairy Chest/Naked Man/Sexually Harrassing/Disgusting Festival Man" or however you want to twist it has gone too fuckn' far. This controversy is a classic example of how the Japanese media takes one little miniscule, unimportant molecule of an issue and blows it up into a worldwide debate.

First, read the original MAINICHI News story here.

As most of you with a straight head would agree, this is just completely fucked and it shows how fucking spineless JR Rail is and how desperate the media is for stories. If anything, the poster is quite funny, the expression on the guy's face gives me quite a chuckle. But I find it about as offensive as a garden hose.

OK, I can point out a million things that would be considered more "offensive" and "sexually harassing" than this poster. How about the fact that you can legally buy pretty racy spank books of 10 year bikini chicks in any idol shop in the country. How about the fact that I get a mountain of unwanted porn related fliers in my fucking mailbox every year. How about the fact that you can walk in any convenience store and see extremely big breasted idols on normal weekly magazine covers, clearly on display. How's about the noise from Pachinko parlors? How about the large number of police officers raping women recently?

I find the smell of the pollution in Shinsaibashi, Namba, Umeda and pretty much every other area of Osaka very very offensive. I find it offensive that half the female population has to spend every 5 minutes looking in the mirror checking their make-up on the train or in public, also stinking up the air with their shitty perfume. I find it very offensive how much a public servant makes in a year.

I have a mustache and beard. AND CHEST HAIR. Am I offensive???.......er . . ... Wait. Don't answer that question.

Anyway, I can't see how a POSTER qualifies as sexual harassment anyway. Uhh, if I'm not mistaken "harass" is an action verb and if I look up SEXUAL HARASSMENT in the dictionary it says 1. comments about sex, physical contact, etc. usually that happens at work, that a person finds annoying and offensive 2. the repeated making of sexual advances or obscene remarks to a person, especially in a workplace. As far as I know, the guy in the poster did not sexually harass anyone. The guy reportedly apologized on TV about his offensive chest.

Maybe the reason they banned it is because the guy in the front looks like he's taking one up the poop chute, hence the strange facial expression...