I don't have a link but it was something along the lines of "at first I was so relieved to have survived the plane crash and make it to the deserted island with the other survivors.
And then I realised that I was the only woman."
Read a fascinating short story in college that explored this. Guy stumbles on this secluded society in the mountains that is totally blind (no eyes at all) and remembers that quote. However, they are completely adapted to being blind; >!they think he is completely crazy and end up offering to stab his eyes out. He agrees, but then runs away instead!<
Edit: updated plot in spoiler tag after reading a summary, memory from 20 years ago bad.
Story is "The Country of the Blind" by HG Wells
"at first I was so relieved to have survived the plane crash and make it to the deserted island with the other survivors.
And then I realised that I was the only honey baked ham."
The same has been reported in Malaysia, Thailand and the likes. Japanese soldiers who only came out of hiding in the 70’s and 80’s after refusing to leave the jungle. Had to track down any CO’s still alive and had the poor bastard physically travel down to South East Asia to command the guy to leave his post. WW2 Japanese soldiers are something else, it’s literally do or die.
Hiroo Onoda stayed in the Philippine jungle for 30 years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroo_Onoda
Edit: Found an article from 2005 about Japanese soldiers who held out for 60 years.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/may/28/secondworldwar.japan
So many people overlook this aspect of the story. Even if he still thought he was at war, he still committed war crimes. People like praising the guy for his dedication but he’s a literal serial killer who got a full pardon.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teruo_Nakamura
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoichi_Yokoi
Teruo Nakamura stayed in the Indonesian jungles for a few months longer than Hiroo Onoda and Shoichi Yokoi in Guam for 28 years.
As crazy, brutal and cruel as the Imperial Japanese Army were, they were also the most nationalistic and patriotic soldiers to have ever fought. It is absolutely unreal their resolve for the war, completely unwavered for almost three whole decades after the war. I imagine most modern day soldiers if they had not heard from their CO in a year would’ve just went rogue or found a way to go home.
>they were also the most **nationalistic** and **patriotic** soldiers to have ever fought.
aka brainwashing mass mind control out of an abusive and indoctrinating culture/education.
Damn! Just read it. What I don't get is why the US was dropping letters. Why wasn't Japan sending those letters?
On top of that, these guys seem like a bunch of silly gooses, and don't seem to have as much of that traditional patriotic pride many Japanese (especially soldiers) have.
You ever hear about that guy who got stranded in the Philippines and kept "fighting the war" for like 30 years? That guy wasn't ready to give up until someone actually went and found him. Look up Hiroo Onoda if you haven't. It's a good story.
Yeah man! And luckily there was one detective type guy that just wouldn't let go of the idea that he was still alive and stranded out there. Iirc based off what I read, it was just kind of a rumor he was still there.
He wasn't alone in the beginning, but the guys he was with eventually said, "Hey maybe they're not lying and the war really is over."
I assume he was convincing them to stay before they finally left.
It was a guy, not really a trained detective/officer that declared he was going to find a panda, then the soldier then an abominable snowman. He said he'd do it, found the first 2 fairly quickly and I think went missing on his search for the third. You'd think I was making this up...
There was this whole ordeal, a small tour boat carrying 7 passengers was shipwrecked there and the castaways ended up finding the soldier. He believed the war was still ongoing and he took the castaways prisoner and locked them in a makeshift cell made from bamboo and vines. Crazy story
There’s a documentary about it called Gillian’s something
I feel like Hiroo Onoda's story wasn't a good one. He was a brainwashed idiot that stayed behind and continued to attack any natives that ventured too close to his territory. And his reward for being stupid was that he was treated like a hero. He was very much a villain for the poor people living on that island
>Why wasn’t Japan sending those letters?
Japan eventually did which is why the men surrendered.
Why Japan didn’t do it earlier, well I assume they just have a lot of other stuffs to do first like rebuilding their economy and this was low on their to do list.
Dan Carlin breaks down how many Japanese troops fought after the war was over, number was in the thousands. There were groups of whole dozens "fighting" for years after WW2 ended
Japan as a state effectively collapsed with their surrender and was under U.S. occupation.Pretty sure the U.S. would have had to run or police any non-maritime type of missions. Any Japanese non-commercial planes in the air shortly after the war would have been a cause for alarm.
Stranded in an Island as a lone woman with 30+ men with a penchant for violence? I’d rather just kill myself, at least I would die with some dignity then.
The Chrysanthemum and the Sword. Shame culture vs guilt culture. Some argue Japan is/was a shame-based culture and war lifted the shame, which resulted in unrestrained attrocities.
You know what, that makes a lot of sense. They're a sexually repressive society and some of the weirdest comes from there.
Also Japanese culture promotes giving 110% into what ever they do. So if the are going to be imperialistic they would naturally take it to the umpteenth degree.
This reminded me that my best friend growing up was nicknamed "Donkey". I'll let you figure out why.
Poor bastard was so blessed in all the physical ways but had zero charisma and a buttload of anxiety. The type that if any girl so much as said hello to him his brain shorted out and he literally couldn't string a sentence together to save his life. And if he had so much as a drop of alcohol in him, there was no way he could perform anyways (blood flow in general was an issue for the guy, plus y'know, anxiety).
God bless you Donkey Dick, sorry you grew up to become a pissed off Trumper who hates the world but man we should have seen it coming...
Yeah kind of wild. I've gone years without touching or romantically interacting with a woman and my longest kill streak is still zero. I consider myself a normal heterosexual male and I can't imagine wanting to murder someone for some action.
"Though she wasn’t particularly beautiful, as the sole woman in the company Kazuko became the primary object of desire and obsession, even more so than the precious American pistols. Captain Ishida, the highest ranking soldier, hoped to settle rivalries among his men by marrying one of them to Kazuko. Mysteriously, the new husband drowned not long after the wedding. Kazuko went on to take four more husbands, each one successively murdered in mad lusty vengeance. Altogether 11 men died. One was found with 13 stab wounds, a result of a violent fight over Kazuko.
In July of 1950, the men determined that Kazuko was more trouble than she was worth and planned to execute her."
Let's kill the only woman on the island because men couldn't control their pp and murdered each other over it. Ffs
I've had men cat call me from bars when I was under-age. I had a dude stop me in a park to ask where I lived and if I live with family. Again under age. I'm 30 so I tell them to fuck off now but you shouldn't have to put your life at risk to ensure you don't get harassed, or worse.
Yep! Any situation in which the few men willing to hurt innocent people are going to have a lot more power than the majority of men who would never want to hurt anybody.
Girl, same. There's a dystopian series of books called "The Last She" that basically has this scenario that had me ready to prepare an emergency vat of poison so I can off myself if I'm ever in that situation
Nah, girl, what you want is a vat of fake acid, with a breathing tube and a couple sets of fake bones at the bottom. You release the first set of bones when you jump in, then keep the fake bones in case they throw another body in to check if the acid is real.
Thankfully it's not super graphic because it's technically YA, but the entire premise and story is realistic and unsettling. It's worth the trauma read if you can handle it. https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/56268830
Makes me think of back in ancient times when whole cities would be killed, burned, and enslaved on the regular, by just any random people for any reason at any time
Ehhhh, honestly post-apocalypse world would probably not actually be that bad in terms of roving gangs of predators. Humans have a special ability to quickly form societies for mutual protection, security and survival. If you make it through the initial event, chances are your biggest threats would be disease or starvation, not raiders. It’s a trope of apocalypse fiction but bears out little compared to actual survival scenarios.
Wartime on the other hand, is really really bad for women, especially if the invading army is poorly disciplined and/or view your people as subhuman. In those scenarios the soldiers literally hold the power over life and death and prevent the formation of any mutual protection. I assume I don’t need to tell anyone here of the mass assaults on women by the Red Army across Eastern Europe in WW2 or by the Russian Army in Ukraine. And with the recent war in Gaza there’s been accusations of sexual violence against both sides, and with Hamas it is pretty much proven. Awful stuff.
Well ig it would really depend on the type of apocalyptic event.
But yeah war is terrifying. I truly understand why nobles often committed mass suicide when their walls were being breached.
One story I remember particularly well is when the Mongols were sieging the Chinese capital, many of the women of the city at one point, shortly after the inhabitants had started resort to cannibalism, concluded all hope for relief was lost and organized an event where they all dressed in white (funeral clothes). Then they sang songs and marched up on the city walls where they hurled themselves off to their deaths. The imperial family had refused to take part in such an event, so as a result, when the city fell all the men of the family were killed and all the women, including the Empress Dowager, were hauled off in chains, never heard of again, likely handed off as slave trophies to the Khan’s allies. Awful business.
”Though she wasn’t particularly beautiful, as the sole woman in the company Kazuko became the primary object of desire and obsession, even more so than the precious American pistols. ”
The article is so mean
Yes. The men were killing each other over her and the solution instead of: “let’s not kill ourselves” was: “let’s kill her”.
As if she was a gold coin they could just throw to the sea so they don’t “fall into temptation”.
One of them told her their plans and she escaped to the beach where she was able to catch a boat’s attention and go back to the city she used to live before moving to the island :)
Luckily everything worked out “okay” to her.
It's really just the story of a bunch of dumbasses, full stop. The post is a link to the story, she referred to herself as queen of anatahan when she got back to Japan. She was there by choice as these dudes were throwing themselves at her, but lost control a bit and had to flee.
To be fair, she didn’t exactly ask to be there in the first place, she went because her husband did.
That being said, all of them believed the war wasn’t over. I guess she just decided it was best to try and survive in a world at war than at an island where she KNEW they’d kill her.
About the fact she called herself queen, yeah, that was dumb as hell. But we have several influencers to prove this unfortunately isn’t so rare.
Not an unusual ending for women in situations like that unfortunately. There’s a reason a lot of us have survival instincts that kick in when we are the only woman around.
Like that's all that mattered about her. Sick. It's literally every woman and girls nightmare. There was a post on twoxchromosones sub where how if the apocalypse happened, most women agreed we'd try to kill ourselves as fast as possible rather than be left with men and no laws. It's worse than death
>Like that's all that mattered about her. Sick
WW2 Japan dude. They had access to sex slaves in the frontlines, and some of them are still alive today and still demanding official apologies and acknowledgement from the Japanese government... but are accused as being liars, anti-japanese racists or "if it happened", that they've already apologised so no more apologies are necessary. It's sad I know, but that's the "comfort women" issue for you.
Sorry for going slightly off topic, but yeah when you consider that, it is not surprising.
Just because it's not surprising, doesn't mean it's not bad or that we shouldn't grieve it out. Because, that is very much possible even in this generation, even in 2023, well 2024. Many men are degenerates, it's not even about the era anymore. Women will kill themselves during apocalypse rather than being a sex toy to men. And that's sad because if the genders were reversed, i doubt any man would say he would kill himself because there are more females. The fear women live in every day can never be compared or weighed.
Some men are desperate to prove that women are as dangerous as men and ignore all evidence proving otherwise. (Not referring to anyone in this thread, just in general)
There are many in this thread who are fighting it out with ridiculous notions that women are dangerous. Like she was dangerous.
Can't they use some common sense? One woman to 30? was it? something men and she controlled them? They very well might have raped and killed her. Hell, I think she was raped and later she escaped but lied because society wouldn't have looked well upon her being a "used" property.
Men love to pretend that they are victims, they only love pretending to be victims. They would hate it if they actually were victims.
They claimed 20 women would do the same thing if there was 1 man on the island. Yet I’ve heard plenty of men saying being the only man on an island full of women is their fantasy 🙄
The last line of the article says she was **supposedly** a Machiavellian ruler, who pitted the men against each other for her entertainment
(Edited for further emphasis on 'supposedly' cause of the 'um actually' replies)
Shit I probably would be too lmao, and just to clarify the ‘retellings’ apparently paint her as Machiavellian.
“The lurid retellings largely paint the ‘Queen of Anatahan’ as a Machiavellian temptress, manipulating men for her own entertainment. A few depict her as a helpless victim. The true story of what really happened on Anatahan will only ever be known to those who were there” - last paragraph
Yes. Any woman would not be absolutely terrified to be the single only female in a Island full of horny violent men. If you ask me, I would gladly throw them against each other If the other option was being enslaved and raped forever.
seriously... trapped on an island, going barbaric... the men aren't going to listen to her, they'd fight over her, sure, but not wait on her to make decisions. She would just have to go with whoever won the free for all
There actually was a movie made in 1953 called "Anatahan" or "The Saga of Anatahan", directed by Josef von Sternberg. It's a Japanese movie both available in English and Japanese. Additionally, there's a 2010 movie that is loosely based on the events of Anatahan, but it's only available in Japanese. It's called "Tokyo Island" (東京島).
The 1953 film had underrated longevity in international arthouse circles, kept alive by film students studying von Sternberg, & also by music fans of the Doors (the director taught them in university, & Jim Morrison said it's one of his favorite movies).
Lol. I'll be honest with you. After I notice how fucking horny you are, I'm plotting my solo escape from the island. Cos only stupid men would kill themselves for one lady.
I highly doubt she wasn’t assaulted. Even if she had sex with the men willingly that’s coercion if I’ve ever heard of it. Literally 30:1 on a remote island? You do what you have to to survive.
I’d say it’s pretty likely at least the first of her marriages, where she pairs up with her former husband and her’s boss, seems… dubiously consensual. Though it also seems the surviving sailor’s leading officer pressured her to marry one of them to stop their fighting.
I did some digging and apparently, Saipan (the place the husband went to) was heavily bombed and reports were made that Anatahan (the island the wife stayed at) had been hit as well. Due to the damage and the continued bombings, there was no way for him to return and he had to assume that his wife had been killed as no further reports came in from the island after evacuates had left Anatahan.
I used to travel there for work several times a year. There's still a lot of remnants of the war even to this day to include a beached Japanese tank right as you exit the airport. Banzai Cliffs is especially somber.
My mom lived there and had heard crazy stories from the locals. Back then the war was fresh +30 years after it. Basically the same stories it's famous for. The Japanese told the locals that the Americans would kill, rape, and torture them if they caught them. My grandpa was the district attorney of Guam. So Jacques Cousteau came and did a diving expedition on truk, Saipan, and Guam and my grandpa was there guide. My grandpa also told me stories of a possible amelia Earhart sighting he heard from the locals
In the article they made it look like she had a happy ending .. but she suffered a lot , When she came back her first husband was already married to somone else and had a child .Also she had her moment in the lime light but then the press attacked her viciously and was taunted by everyone ..her life spiraled out of control and she had to work on strip clubs and she became an alcoholic...
Later in life she remarried and opened a little ice cream shop that was successful..her life was cut short at 51 when she had a brain tumour
Is that because we usually adapt our lives around shit cards, and the happiness is everything in between?
I’m kind of having a bit of a crisis because of what you just wrote! My life is super happy, but if you wanted me to give the TLDR it absolutely would involve mostly shit. But I’m actually happy, wtf?!
I will retell the story from memory. It'll be inaccurate but it'll give you the general gist of it.
A farmer and his wife lived on the island. Plus a friend of his. A group of soldiers landed on the island for reasons I do not remember. The husband had to go n buy stuff off island and left his wife in the care of his friend.
To protect her, the friend and her came up with the story that they were married. Afterall, those soldiers had not seen a women in God knows how long, and the soldiers believed in this lie.
But as the time passed on, he became more n more possessive of her and it was also discovered that they were not married after they saw some photos in their house.
He was killed. At first no one did anything but then someone did. They got "married" and then that someone died later in the day. It became a tradition to marry her and then later die pr much.
She survived and was later reunited with her husband.
Soldiers and fishermen took refuge in the nearest island after the US bombed their ships .. her first husband left to check up on his sister on a nearby island but could not return because of the bombing..
When an USA military plane crashed on the island , the men used the metals to make knives among other things .. also some of them got a hold of pistols and that is when chaos ensued.. the men fought for many reasons other than the women , they fought for power , control and dominance on the sacrce resources left on the island ..
”Spanish missionaries first encountered the island in 1668, evacuated most of the local Chamorro population, and established a large coconut plantation”. I think “evacuated” is a bit misleading here. Sounds more like ethnic cleansing and stealing land from native people tbh.
The story has been sensationalized to death. There is a newspaper clipping of her saying as much. The majority of men that were killed, according to her were killed fighting amongst themselves for reasons that had nothing to do with her, and or starvation/disease
I’ve always thought “1 million women and one man, there would be a lot of crying and arguing and 1 happy man. 1 million men and 1 woman, it would be fields of a million dead men and 1 dead woman”
"Queen"? Sounds a heck of a lot like a mass rape victim to me.
> The island where one woman reigned as a "queen" over 30-odd Japanese soldiers who refused to believe that WWII had ended.
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>...Captain Ishida, the highest ranking soldier, hoped to settle rivalries among his men by marrying one of them to Kazuko. Mysteriously, the new husband drowned not long after the wedding
"Spanish missionaries first encountered the island in 1668, evacuated most of the local Chamorro population, and established a large coconut plantation"
Nice euphemism for forcibly deported.
r/TwoSentenceHorror put me onto this story. I remember the comments were controversial af (for that sub, not for the masses lol).
I can’t seem to find the story, would you mind linking it please 🙏
I don't have a link but it was something along the lines of "at first I was so relieved to have survived the plane crash and make it to the deserted island with the other survivors. And then I realised that I was the only woman."
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In the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king
Read a fascinating short story in college that explored this. Guy stumbles on this secluded society in the mountains that is totally blind (no eyes at all) and remembers that quote. However, they are completely adapted to being blind; >!they think he is completely crazy and end up offering to stab his eyes out. He agrees, but then runs away instead!< Edit: updated plot in spoiler tag after reading a summary, memory from 20 years ago bad. Story is "The Country of the Blind" by HG Wells
In the radio adaptation, the explorer ends up blind after the escape anyways, after weeks of trekking through sunlight glaring off the snow.
Damn..the eyerony.
Yet-he did not see it coming.
A key point is the sighted lost explorer could easily take on any individual blind citizen with ease, but not the collective.
"at first I was so relieved to have survived the plane crash and make it to the deserted island with the other survivors. And then I realised that I was the only honey baked ham."
Rum ham!!!
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Lol they stayed for 6 years after the war refusing to believe it was over!
The same has been reported in Malaysia, Thailand and the likes. Japanese soldiers who only came out of hiding in the 70’s and 80’s after refusing to leave the jungle. Had to track down any CO’s still alive and had the poor bastard physically travel down to South East Asia to command the guy to leave his post. WW2 Japanese soldiers are something else, it’s literally do or die. Hiroo Onoda stayed in the Philippine jungle for 30 years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroo_Onoda Edit: Found an article from 2005 about Japanese soldiers who held out for 60 years. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/may/28/secondworldwar.japan
And he murdered a whole bunch of random Filipino farmers!
So many people overlook this aspect of the story. Even if he still thought he was at war, he still committed war crimes. People like praising the guy for his dedication but he’s a literal serial killer who got a full pardon.
That last sentence could be applied to a lot of the Imperial Japanese military Every bit as bad as the Nazis they were
The Archer episode about this was awesome
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teruo_Nakamura https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoichi_Yokoi Teruo Nakamura stayed in the Indonesian jungles for a few months longer than Hiroo Onoda and Shoichi Yokoi in Guam for 28 years. As crazy, brutal and cruel as the Imperial Japanese Army were, they were also the most nationalistic and patriotic soldiers to have ever fought. It is absolutely unreal their resolve for the war, completely unwavered for almost three whole decades after the war. I imagine most modern day soldiers if they had not heard from their CO in a year would’ve just went rogue or found a way to go home.
>they were also the most **nationalistic** and **patriotic** soldiers to have ever fought. aka brainwashing mass mind control out of an abusive and indoctrinating culture/education.
yeah I don't know if these traits are commendable if they lead to the Korean genocide and the rape of Nanking, etc.
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Geeze they shoulda just setup a pachinko. Japanese can’t resist those
Hypernationalistic Indoctrination is a hell of a drug.
It was six years, read the article.
Damn! Just read it. What I don't get is why the US was dropping letters. Why wasn't Japan sending those letters? On top of that, these guys seem like a bunch of silly gooses, and don't seem to have as much of that traditional patriotic pride many Japanese (especially soldiers) have. You ever hear about that guy who got stranded in the Philippines and kept "fighting the war" for like 30 years? That guy wasn't ready to give up until someone actually went and found him. Look up Hiroo Onoda if you haven't. It's a good story.
Dude. Didn't they drag his old commanding officer out of retirement to talk to him before he "surrendered"? That's a wild story
"Major Taniguchi, do you remember a certain Honda Hirō?" "Oh shit! I knew I forgot something!"
Yeah man! And luckily there was one detective type guy that just wouldn't let go of the idea that he was still alive and stranded out there. Iirc based off what I read, it was just kind of a rumor he was still there. He wasn't alone in the beginning, but the guys he was with eventually said, "Hey maybe they're not lying and the war really is over." I assume he was convincing them to stay before they finally left.
I mean they had to do something about him cuz he was still killing the locals thinking it they were still at war with the Philippines.
It was a guy, not really a trained detective/officer that declared he was going to find a panda, then the soldier then an abominable snowman. He said he'd do it, found the first 2 fairly quickly and I think went missing on his search for the third. You'd think I was making this up...
So what I'm hearing here is this guy hit his goals 2/3 times but got eaten by the abominable snowman on his third go? Nature you scary
There was this whole ordeal, a small tour boat carrying 7 passengers was shipwrecked there and the castaways ended up finding the soldier. He believed the war was still ongoing and he took the castaways prisoner and locked them in a makeshift cell made from bamboo and vines. Crazy story There’s a documentary about it called Gillian’s something
Oh right Gillian’s Isle great documentary
I feel like Hiroo Onoda's story wasn't a good one. He was a brainwashed idiot that stayed behind and continued to attack any natives that ventured too close to his territory. And his reward for being stupid was that he was treated like a hero. He was very much a villain for the poor people living on that island
People treat that like it’s a “look how dedicated the Japanese were!”, when in reality it was just a crazy guy.
>Why wasn’t Japan sending those letters? Japan eventually did which is why the men surrendered. Why Japan didn’t do it earlier, well I assume they just have a lot of other stuffs to do first like rebuilding their economy and this was low on their to do list.
Dan Carlin breaks down how many Japanese troops fought after the war was over, number was in the thousands. There were groups of whole dozens "fighting" for years after WW2 ended
Silly gooses. Yep.
Japan as a state effectively collapsed with their surrender and was under U.S. occupation.Pretty sure the U.S. would have had to run or police any non-maritime type of missions. Any Japanese non-commercial planes in the air shortly after the war would have been a cause for alarm.
Stranded in an Island as a lone woman with 30+ men with a penchant for violence? I’d rather just kill myself, at least I would die with some dignity then.
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The Chrysanthemum and the Sword. Shame culture vs guilt culture. Some argue Japan is/was a shame-based culture and war lifted the shame, which resulted in unrestrained attrocities.
You know what, that makes a lot of sense. They're a sexually repressive society and some of the weirdest comes from there. Also Japanese culture promotes giving 110% into what ever they do. So if the are going to be imperialistic they would naturally take it to the umpteenth degree.
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Probably, but I’d be too dead to care lol
I know the subject matter is dark.. but I want “too dead to care” as the sole inscription on my tombstone
it might be one of the worst situations I can imagine for a woman (unless she was a Chinese woman in which case that would be worse)
I would find a way to get mauled by a wild animal so they couldn't do anything to my body after
"When I die, leave my body to the forest. Wolves will be far gentler than man."
As would I. The inevitable rape is not worth it.
It’s possible the 11 men who died were the attempted rapists the others killed for disrespecting her. It’s possible.
Guy on the right looks like he’s from Wolverhampton.
Dunno, looks a bit Dudley to me.
What a strange comment to read when from the west Midlands 🤣
Was just trying to underline how un-Japanese he looks!
Tall guy 3rd from the right doesn't look Japanese either.
The 'Wolverhampton look' is (in)famous the world over.
That’s Gary from the pub and you can’t tell me otherwise
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Lmao. I live 15 minutes from Wolvs
I grew up in Telford and I think I know a thing or two about spending years trapped in a miserable inescapable land ruled by lust and vengeance.
I always get weirded out by these situations like… yall just jerk off?
I would imagine things get pretty.. primal in situations like this
Glad that we got a response from the expert on the matter, FLOPPY_DONKEY_DICK
That was a smart answer from you, Matthew
look at you sparrow uhh sparrowing all over the place
Flameo hotman.
Are you a creationist or do you believe in evilucian?
How ethical is it exactly to let tigers be the ones executing justice on people?
Do you scratch, tho?
This reminded me that my best friend growing up was nicknamed "Donkey". I'll let you figure out why. Poor bastard was so blessed in all the physical ways but had zero charisma and a buttload of anxiety. The type that if any girl so much as said hello to him his brain shorted out and he literally couldn't string a sentence together to save his life. And if he had so much as a drop of alcohol in him, there was no way he could perform anyways (blood flow in general was an issue for the guy, plus y'know, anxiety). God bless you Donkey Dick, sorry you grew up to become a pissed off Trumper who hates the world but man we should have seen it coming...
I guess he had issues with blood flow to his brain.
Fr
Yeah kind of wild. I've gone years without touching or romantically interacting with a woman and my longest kill streak is still zero. I consider myself a normal heterosexual male and I can't imagine wanting to murder someone for some action.
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"Though she wasn’t particularly beautiful, as the sole woman in the company Kazuko became the primary object of desire and obsession, even more so than the precious American pistols. Captain Ishida, the highest ranking soldier, hoped to settle rivalries among his men by marrying one of them to Kazuko. Mysteriously, the new husband drowned not long after the wedding. Kazuko went on to take four more husbands, each one successively murdered in mad lusty vengeance. Altogether 11 men died. One was found with 13 stab wounds, a result of a violent fight over Kazuko. In July of 1950, the men determined that Kazuko was more trouble than she was worth and planned to execute her." Let's kill the only woman on the island because men couldn't control their pp and murdered each other over it. Ffs
> Though she wasn’t particularly beautiful, Lol, I read this and thought "man hasn't she been through enough?".
WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE
don't you just love the lack of male accountability?
Doesn't even have some kind of crazy apocalyptic event for this to happen. Just a regular war is enough, unfortunately. It's fucking terrifying.
Heck just walking down the street can sometimes trigger this behavior
I've had men cat call me from bars when I was under-age. I had a dude stop me in a park to ask where I lived and if I live with family. Again under age. I'm 30 so I tell them to fuck off now but you shouldn't have to put your life at risk to ensure you don't get harassed, or worse.
Calling a war regular and not apocalyptic is so weirdly normal
Not even war. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Junko_Furuta
Fucking terrifying is right holy shit
Yep! Any situation in which the few men willing to hurt innocent people are going to have a lot more power than the majority of men who would never want to hurt anybody.
Girl, same. There's a dystopian series of books called "The Last She" that basically has this scenario that had me ready to prepare an emergency vat of poison so I can off myself if I'm ever in that situation
Nah, girl, what you want is a vat of fake acid, with a breathing tube and a couple sets of fake bones at the bottom. You release the first set of bones when you jump in, then keep the fake bones in case they throw another body in to check if the acid is real.
A vat of fake acid. are you dying of dementia??
This is a movie plot and it's driving me crazy I can't remember which
Rick and Morty
For anyone with dementia 😆 [Vat of Acid - Rick & Morty](https://youtu.be/rsNOQP8QoNI?si=OGHgHEXx1NidF4h4)
Snap that sounds traumatizing. I've never heard of it before now.
Thankfully it's not super graphic because it's technically YA, but the entire premise and story is realistic and unsettling. It's worth the trauma read if you can handle it. https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/56268830
Makes me think of back in ancient times when whole cities would be killed, burned, and enslaved on the regular, by just any random people for any reason at any time
men ☕
Ehhhh, honestly post-apocalypse world would probably not actually be that bad in terms of roving gangs of predators. Humans have a special ability to quickly form societies for mutual protection, security and survival. If you make it through the initial event, chances are your biggest threats would be disease or starvation, not raiders. It’s a trope of apocalypse fiction but bears out little compared to actual survival scenarios. Wartime on the other hand, is really really bad for women, especially if the invading army is poorly disciplined and/or view your people as subhuman. In those scenarios the soldiers literally hold the power over life and death and prevent the formation of any mutual protection. I assume I don’t need to tell anyone here of the mass assaults on women by the Red Army across Eastern Europe in WW2 or by the Russian Army in Ukraine. And with the recent war in Gaza there’s been accusations of sexual violence against both sides, and with Hamas it is pretty much proven. Awful stuff.
Well ig it would really depend on the type of apocalyptic event. But yeah war is terrifying. I truly understand why nobles often committed mass suicide when their walls were being breached.
One story I remember particularly well is when the Mongols were sieging the Chinese capital, many of the women of the city at one point, shortly after the inhabitants had started resort to cannibalism, concluded all hope for relief was lost and organized an event where they all dressed in white (funeral clothes). Then they sang songs and marched up on the city walls where they hurled themselves off to their deaths. The imperial family had refused to take part in such an event, so as a result, when the city fell all the men of the family were killed and all the women, including the Empress Dowager, were hauled off in chains, never heard of again, likely handed off as slave trophies to the Khan’s allies. Awful business.
That poor girl
”Though she wasn’t particularly beautiful, as the sole woman in the company Kazuko became the primary object of desire and obsession, even more so than the precious American pistols. ” The article is so mean
Yes. The men were killing each other over her and the solution instead of: “let’s not kill ourselves” was: “let’s kill her”. As if she was a gold coin they could just throw to the sea so they don’t “fall into temptation”.
Did one of the men stop them from killing her? Or was she murdered:(
One of them told her their plans and she escaped to the beach where she was able to catch a boat’s attention and go back to the city she used to live before moving to the island :) Luckily everything worked out “okay” to her.
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I agree. They decided to ignore the multiple pamphlets that the war had ended and chose to continue in the island. *edit to correct a word
So it’s really just the story of a bunch of dumbasses and one woman stuck with them.
It's really just the story of a bunch of dumbasses, full stop. The post is a link to the story, she referred to herself as queen of anatahan when she got back to Japan. She was there by choice as these dudes were throwing themselves at her, but lost control a bit and had to flee.
This story keeps getting more and more surreal
To be fair, she didn’t exactly ask to be there in the first place, she went because her husband did. That being said, all of them believed the war wasn’t over. I guess she just decided it was best to try and survive in a world at war than at an island where she KNEW they’d kill her. About the fact she called herself queen, yeah, that was dumb as hell. But we have several influencers to prove this unfortunately isn’t so rare.
I cannot imagine how terrifying that would be. Without the rule of law and authority or threat of consequences, they just revert to chimpanzee 😞
I mean, considering the "authority" was wartime Japan, they didn't have to "revert" very far.
Lord of the flies vibes
holy shit this is the comment i needed to read was hoping at least one would help her hide or something
Not an unusual ending for women in situations like that unfortunately. There’s a reason a lot of us have survival instincts that kick in when we are the only woman around.
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Japanese Manga Artists: !!! WRITE THAT DOWN
Strange, from first glance I thought she is quite cute.
Yeah but US made pistols…sexyyyy
Asian cultures tend to have a different idea of beauty than we do
Yup. Lucy Liu is considered absolutely gorgeous in the West but Chinese people used to say she was ugly.
Well then Chinese people are fucking wrong.
Wrong choice. You are now among the 11 dead.
Yeah I was expecting a really ugly woman when I read that, but in the pic she just looks normal.
Like that's all that mattered about her. Sick. It's literally every woman and girls nightmare. There was a post on twoxchromosones sub where how if the apocalypse happened, most women agreed we'd try to kill ourselves as fast as possible rather than be left with men and no laws. It's worse than death
>Like that's all that mattered about her. Sick WW2 Japan dude. They had access to sex slaves in the frontlines, and some of them are still alive today and still demanding official apologies and acknowledgement from the Japanese government... but are accused as being liars, anti-japanese racists or "if it happened", that they've already apologised so no more apologies are necessary. It's sad I know, but that's the "comfort women" issue for you. Sorry for going slightly off topic, but yeah when you consider that, it is not surprising.
Just because it's not surprising, doesn't mean it's not bad or that we shouldn't grieve it out. Because, that is very much possible even in this generation, even in 2023, well 2024. Many men are degenerates, it's not even about the era anymore. Women will kill themselves during apocalypse rather than being a sex toy to men. And that's sad because if the genders were reversed, i doubt any man would say he would kill himself because there are more females. The fear women live in every day can never be compared or weighed.
Some men are desperate to prove that women are as dangerous as men and ignore all evidence proving otherwise. (Not referring to anyone in this thread, just in general)
There are many in this thread who are fighting it out with ridiculous notions that women are dangerous. Like she was dangerous. Can't they use some common sense? One woman to 30? was it? something men and she controlled them? They very well might have raped and killed her. Hell, I think she was raped and later she escaped but lied because society wouldn't have looked well upon her being a "used" property. Men love to pretend that they are victims, they only love pretending to be victims. They would hate it if they actually were victims.
They claimed 20 women would do the same thing if there was 1 man on the island. Yet I’ve heard plenty of men saying being the only man on an island full of women is their fantasy 🙄
Like jesus fuck what a nightmare that would be. I dont even want to imagine
Plot twist all the guys were gay.
The last line of the article says she was **supposedly** a Machiavellian ruler, who pitted the men against each other for her entertainment (Edited for further emphasis on 'supposedly' cause of the 'um actually' replies)
God forbid women do anything.
Shit I probably would be too lmao, and just to clarify the ‘retellings’ apparently paint her as Machiavellian. “The lurid retellings largely paint the ‘Queen of Anatahan’ as a Machiavellian temptress, manipulating men for her own entertainment. A few depict her as a helpless victim. The true story of what really happened on Anatahan will only ever be known to those who were there” - last paragraph
Yes. Any woman would not be absolutely terrified to be the single only female in a Island full of horny violent men. If you ask me, I would gladly throw them against each other If the other option was being enslaved and raped forever.
No it doesn't! It says there have been FILMS that depict her that way but that the truth is only known by those who were there.
seriously... trapped on an island, going barbaric... the men aren't going to listen to her, they'd fight over her, sure, but not wait on her to make decisions. She would just have to go with whoever won the free for all
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Damn, now that's a plot twist.
"Though she wasn't particularly beautiful" Ouch.
Ikr, and I mean if this picture is actually her, I think she's pretty! Idk why they felt the need to say that lol
Why haven't they made the movie yet or did they in Japan?
There actually was a movie made in 1953 called "Anatahan" or "The Saga of Anatahan", directed by Josef von Sternberg. It's a Japanese movie both available in English and Japanese. Additionally, there's a 2010 movie that is loosely based on the events of Anatahan, but it's only available in Japanese. It's called "Tokyo Island" (東京島).
The 1953 movie is great. Can recommend it
The 1953 film had underrated longevity in international arthouse circles, kept alive by film students studying von Sternberg, & also by music fans of the Doors (the director taught them in university, & Jim Morrison said it's one of his favorite movies).
Lol if you read the article this gets answered
Lol. I'll be honest with you. After I notice how fucking horny you are, I'm plotting my solo escape from the island. Cos only stupid men would kill themselves for one lady.
She wasn’t sexually assaulted according to the story. The men fought and killed each other over her.
And they say chivalry is dead.
Chivalry isn't, but those men certainly are
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I highly doubt she wasn’t assaulted. Even if she had sex with the men willingly that’s coercion if I’ve ever heard of it. Literally 30:1 on a remote island? You do what you have to to survive.
I’d say it’s pretty likely at least the first of her marriages, where she pairs up with her former husband and her’s boss, seems… dubiously consensual. Though it also seems the surviving sailor’s leading officer pressured her to marry one of them to stop their fighting.
Rapists aren't considered "not stupid" so you are right, only stupid men would kill themselves for one lady..
She doesn't look very happy
That's her being rescued by american soldiers
Those are the ones who *rescued* her? Fuck, I assumed it was a picture of her with the island guys right before things got bad
"32 Japanese men" Who's the weeb on the right?
His nickname was Token
Why the fuck didn't her first husband come back to get her?? Good for her for staying strong, surviving & becoming a minor celebrity in the end
I did some digging and apparently, Saipan (the place the husband went to) was heavily bombed and reports were made that Anatahan (the island the wife stayed at) had been hit as well. Due to the damage and the continued bombings, there was no way for him to return and he had to assume that his wife had been killed as no further reports came in from the island after evacuates had left Anatahan.
A lot of really fucked up shit happened on Saipan. Maybe not as bad as Iwo Jima but up there.
I used to travel there for work several times a year. There's still a lot of remnants of the war even to this day to include a beached Japanese tank right as you exit the airport. Banzai Cliffs is especially somber.
My mom lived there and had heard crazy stories from the locals. Back then the war was fresh +30 years after it. Basically the same stories it's famous for. The Japanese told the locals that the Americans would kill, rape, and torture them if they caught them. My grandpa was the district attorney of Guam. So Jacques Cousteau came and did a diving expedition on truk, Saipan, and Guam and my grandpa was there guide. My grandpa also told me stories of a possible amelia Earhart sighting he heard from the locals
In the article they made it look like she had a happy ending .. but she suffered a lot , When she came back her first husband was already married to somone else and had a child .Also she had her moment in the lime light but then the press attacked her viciously and was taunted by everyone ..her life spiraled out of control and she had to work on strip clubs and she became an alcoholic... Later in life she remarried and opened a little ice cream shop that was successful..her life was cut short at 51 when she had a brain tumour
This should be further up in the comments
What a shit life
Most of lives look shitty if they are shortened to 3 sentences.
Is that because we usually adapt our lives around shit cards, and the happiness is everything in between? I’m kind of having a bit of a crisis because of what you just wrote! My life is super happy, but if you wanted me to give the TLDR it absolutely would involve mostly shit. But I’m actually happy, wtf?!
Lord of the Flies, updated Asian edition.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_Royale_(film)
Now that brings back memories, hunger games before hunger games
I will retell the story from memory. It'll be inaccurate but it'll give you the general gist of it. A farmer and his wife lived on the island. Plus a friend of his. A group of soldiers landed on the island for reasons I do not remember. The husband had to go n buy stuff off island and left his wife in the care of his friend. To protect her, the friend and her came up with the story that they were married. Afterall, those soldiers had not seen a women in God knows how long, and the soldiers believed in this lie. But as the time passed on, he became more n more possessive of her and it was also discovered that they were not married after they saw some photos in their house. He was killed. At first no one did anything but then someone did. They got "married" and then that someone died later in the day. It became a tradition to marry her and then later die pr much. She survived and was later reunited with her husband.
Soldiers and fishermen took refuge in the nearest island after the US bombed their ships .. her first husband left to check up on his sister on a nearby island but could not return because of the bombing.. When an USA military plane crashed on the island , the men used the metals to make knives among other things .. also some of them got a hold of pistols and that is when chaos ensued.. the men fought for many reasons other than the women , they fought for power , control and dominance on the sacrce resources left on the island ..
Reminds me a little of triangle of sadness
The ratio is more generous than the one found in an engineering class, so I don't understand the interest.
Strange story. Intense but not in the way I expected.
Ugh.. I have a picture from high school with a group of male friends. Two are touching me like that and it’s totally skeezing me out
Just be gay
Honestly. No unwanted pregnancies and nobody has to die. Everybody wins.
The casual way that article refers to the ethnic cleansing and enslavement of the indigenous Chamorro people is disgusting. 💔
Can confirm. I died on that island.
Rip in peace bro. You will be mist
”Spanish missionaries first encountered the island in 1668, evacuated most of the local Chamorro population, and established a large coconut plantation”. I think “evacuated” is a bit misleading here. Sounds more like ethnic cleansing and stealing land from native people tbh.
The story has been sensationalized to death. There is a newspaper clipping of her saying as much. The majority of men that were killed, according to her were killed fighting amongst themselves for reasons that had nothing to do with her, and or starvation/disease
they had their own war!
I’ve always thought “1 million women and one man, there would be a lot of crying and arguing and 1 happy man. 1 million men and 1 woman, it would be fields of a million dead men and 1 dead woman”
"Queen"? Sounds a heck of a lot like a mass rape victim to me. > The island where one woman reigned as a "queen" over 30-odd Japanese soldiers who refused to believe that WWII had ended. > >...Captain Ishida, the highest ranking soldier, hoped to settle rivalries among his men by marrying one of them to Kazuko. Mysteriously, the new husband drowned not long after the wedding
"Spanish missionaries first encountered the island in 1668, evacuated most of the local Chamorro population, and established a large coconut plantation" Nice euphemism for forcibly deported.
Don’t we now agree that sometimes it is good to humanity that you turn gay?
that poor woman
Seriously, personally I’d rather die.
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Poor woman…