A full day of lectures on Japan thanks to the GB Sasakawa Foundation. They covered culture, health, economics. Cross-play (as opposed to Cosplay) generally refers to men of all ages dressing up as (in particular) cute teenage girls. There is more social and cultural complexity to it than cross-dressing, it seems, such as competition with women. In the opinion of the speaker, at least. Plus a whole raft of ‘gyaru’ vocabulary I didn’t note.
I have yet to visit / live in Japan, and realise that a lot of what we hear in the West is sensationalised or related to tiny minorities (or simply fashion, without the sinister elements we attach to it). But I can’t help finding the apparent teen-girl obsessions rather alarming. The economics was interesting though!
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