Geisha Girl - Japanese True Beauty - why is this tradition still popular in the modern age?

[yuiyoshida]

[mysteryowl]

1. This looks great. Thanks

I have marked it to watch later.

[paulkienitz]

2. (gag)

Japan is the country which ranks dead last in the world for people of either sex experiencing satisfying love lives, and old gender role stereotypes are a big part of the reason why.

[yuiyoshida]

7. sounds like you

have been watching way too many anime.

[betsuni]

8. No, some of us actually know about Japan.

Imagine a ballet dancer or classical musician whose job also includes going to elite private restaurants to perform and then play drinking games with old rich men. That's the geisha's job, entertain the old rich oligarchs. It would be great if geisha were preservers of classical dance and music and kimono without having to entertain old geezers with drinking games.

[yuiyoshida]

9. you KNOW the belief was that at one time, Geisha were

Sex slaves, but that was never ever the case. They are respected as Artisans no matter what ANY AMERICAN has to say.

[paulkienitz]

10. We should have a tradition where drag queens are respected as artisans.

...On second thought, maybe let's not.

[yuiyoshida]

11. Why not... it would certainly work

Here in San Francisco...what are you afraid of?

[WePurrsevere]

3. Thank you. That was truly fascinating...

As for why it's still popular, there's a certain glamour and mystic to it that would appeal to some, perhaps even more to a young girl from a small town.

[Aristus]

4. I find Asian beauty perfectly entrancing without all the wigs and makeup and submissiveness.

n/t

[brush]

5. Thanks for posting. I enjoyed watching it and learning.

I notice at the end how she was viewed as a celebrity as she walked through the streets. One young child looked up her and a woman stopped to followed her admiringly with her eyes.

[Lokilooney]

6. The title and it's question is kind of silly

Face painting has been around in human culture before recorded times, theater (which this sort of is) has been around for thousands of years and we still practice it, it's all cultural. Never the less it is entertaining to a westerner that twirls spaghetti in a fork.