Ladies, start your engines!
01/30/2007 @ 12:00 am
Reuters ran an article according to which Health Minister Hakuo Yanagisawa called women “birth-giving machines”, in a speech intended to boost the record-low birth rate.
“The number of women aged between 15 and 50 is fixed. Because the number of birth-giving machines and devices is fixed, all we can ask for is for them to do their best per head, although it may not be so appropriate to call them machines,”
Oh, you think so?
Birth giving machines fixed in quantity? Ha!
http://www.comcast.net/news/health/index.jsp?cat=HEALTHWELLNESS&fn=/2007/01/15/562730.html&cvqh=itn_transplant
Its time to start harvesting organs from obsolete baby machines and implant them in infertile baby machines and other free riders. Only then will Japan’s depopulation disaster be solved. As always America will help to lead the way
http://images.wikia.com/wikiality/images/GWpreggers.jpg
Seriously though, this just goes to show how out of touch the Japanese government is with the people. To refer to half of your population as “baby making machines” just shows how little the Health Ministry values its own citizens. I hope he apologizes and his wife fails to live up to her duty for a couple of months.
Incidentally I found two pictures of the health minister, one apparently from the speech…
January 30th, 2007 at 2:30 pmhttp://www.lifeisajoke.com/pictures388_html.htm
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.kantei.go.jp/foreign/abedaijin/060926/images/07yanagisawa.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.kantei.go.jp/foreign/abedaijin/060926/07yanagisawa_e.html&h=245&w=164&sz=13&hl=en&start=1&tbnid=x9l4zpjoShFu7M:&tbnh=110&tbnw=74&prev=/images%3Fq%3DHealth%2BMinister%2BHakuo%2BYanagisawa%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26channel%3Ds%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26sa%3DN
tlxtftrf, that GWpreggers.jpg link was uncalled for and hilarious, not to mention disturbing.
Who do we talk to about impeaching you?
January 30th, 2007 at 4:55 pmKudan told me that “baby machine” is “umu kikai” （生む機械）in Japanese.
February 2nd, 2007 at 7:38 pmNot to be too pedantic, but my guess (without referring to any actual source articles in Japanese) is that the original phrase that was used is actually 産む機械 rather than 生む機械。
February 2nd, 2007 at 11:52 pm