Women in Male Wears Exceed Men

I know, many people have some resistance against homosexual. Most people will frown upon gay or lesbian couples. However, almost all of Japanese are accepted the culture of male attire; moreover people even are interested and appealed to famous women and group in male attire. However, in each eras, the roles and meaning of male attire is changing. I show 3 examples of them, Yoshiko Kawashima and butlers cafes.

Yoshiko Kawashima was like Oriental Mata Hari. She was a Chinese (Manchu) princess and brought up in Japan. When Manchu went to ruin, she was sent to Japan to be an adopted daughter of Kawashima, prepare to rebuild Manchu and be named Yoshiko Kawashima. She announced she abandoned to be a woman and became a man. She worked for Japanese military as a spy during World War 2. Tragically,　after WW2 she was on trial as a traitor and executed by Chinese government.
The reason why Yoshiko decided to be a man was self-defense. In youth, she was raped by her father-in-law and disappointed social weakness of women. To show off her proud, she behaved a serviceman.

Nowadays, cosplay is one of famous Japanese culture, and recent big male attire cosplay industry is butlers cafe. Staff of these cafes are mostly women in butlers costumes. They serve tea, coffee and food as if customers are princesses or masters. In this case, the meaning of female butlers are the target of this cafe is women. Women naturally have beautiful and graceful appearance, and women themselves have the best understanding about women. Customers don't have to be ashamed to order to "butlers". Moreover, the first butlers cafe was created by just a normal Japanese"OL".

Compared to these two issues, women are getting much power and influence day by day. A half century ago, women have no opportunity to get into society without any authority. However, recently women are creating new types of economic influence and movements. I wish I could see the future one day women would make a lot of new generations which men couldn't think of.