“Yuka Ogata, 43, who was censured for bringing her baby to the Kumamoto city assembly and sucking on a lozenge during a plenary session, said she also received cosmetics that she did not order. Her family paid for the products, believing that she had ordered them.”
The headline for the original Japanese version of this article begins “If you speak up, you get trolled” (発言したら嫌がらせ), which I think is a good summary of what often happens to many women and other minorities.
https://www.asahi.com/articles/ASM275RMBM27TIPE01L.html?iref=pc_extlink
By the way, I wish the translator of the English article had written “was censured for . . . using a lozenge” rather than “was censured for . . . sucking on a lozenge.” After all, she was trying to suppress a cough, not using a pacifier. The phrase “sucking on” sounds quite prejudicial to me.
– Kirk
