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Japan Sends Man to G7 Meeting on Women’s Empowerment (time.com)

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The incident highlights ongoing struggles with gender parity in Japan—which ranks lowest among G7 member states on the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Index.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Based Japan.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Means "smart". Here used ironically

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

based comes from lil b https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yq-jPa2-gdE

it basically just means "true to yourself and authentic without regard to what others think about you". it's sort of evolved to be a way to signify approval of some view or another

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