Hiratsuka Raichō, born on this day in 1886, was an anarchist writer, journalist, political activist, and pioneering Japanese feminist. Her efforts helped legalize Japanese women joining political organizations in 1922.
Upon graduating from university, Hiratsuka founded Japan’s first all-women literary magazine, Seitō (青鞜, literally “Bluestocking”), in 1911.
Hiratsuka began the first issue with the words, “In the beginning, woman was the sun”, a reference to the Shinto goddess Amaterasu, and to the spiritual independence which women had lost. Adopting the pen name “Raichō” (“Thunderbird”), she began to call for a women’s spiritual revolution.
Hiratsuka also founded the New Women’s Association with fellow women’s rights activist Ichikawa Fusae. It was largely through this group’s efforts that the Article 5 of the Police Security Regulations, which barred women from joining political organizations and holding or attending political meetings, was overturned in 1922.
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going to the Wikipedia page and getting unreasonably offended and incensed in retrospect that it didn’t take any award home from The Annual Geoff Keighley Show nor was it even nominated for Best Narrative, let alone GOTY
this is my Citizen Kane snubbed at the Oscar’s moment. you’re telling me Fallout 4 was up there on the GOTY nominations in the Undertale year? even if this is fundamentally a clown show, I still have to ask, was your mind inhibited by some sort of ingested substance?
I might be misremembering stuff but I feel like back then award shows were even more of a big bois club then today. Meaning that if you arent AAA or REALLY popular you dont have a shot at winning.
I could see Undertale winning nominations if it was released today and as successful as back then. Even though I doubt it would win GOTY due to biases.
Undertale isnt in my top 10 but I will never be suprised to find it in someones top 10.
I also like the bit where you go on a spaghetti date with the silly skeleton man. that’s the real art :)
serious tho, I wonder if deltarune will have even a fraction of the legacy. it’s much harder to do that as this years long project, even one with the depth in character, world, and themes DR has. undertale just hits you like a truck, then you go back in and it hits you again; there are few games that have done metatextuality within games, and none that have done it as well as UT