The ban on glasses isn’t the first dress code policy to incite outrage in Japan in recent months.
Yumi Ishikawa, the actor and freelance writer who first launched the #KuToo petition, toldthat the trend of Japanese workplaces banning glasses is no different from the sexist rules about footwear that are prevalent in the country.
“If wearing glasses is a real problem at work it should be banned for everyone — men and women,” she said. “This problem with glasses is the exact same as high heels. It’s only a rule for female workers.”If the Japanese government’s response to the #KuToo petition is any indicator of the successes of future petitions, however, women concerned about their right to wear glasses to work shouldn’t get their hopes up.
The glasses controversy is similar to another incident that recently sparked outcry in the region: In 2018, South Korean news anchor Lim Hyeon-ju became the first woman presenter on any major network in the country to sport frames on national TV.Yonhap News agency at the time that the glasses made her job easier on her eyes, which had grown dry and fatigued from constantly wearing contact lenses and false eyelashes.
While it might prove difficult to shift longstanding cultural attitudes about beauty and presentation in the short term, by standing together, Japanese women can help to undermine the idea that such attitudes should go unquestioned or unchallenged.
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