What gets me is reading about how Princess Kiko (the new baby boy's mother) has been lauded as being a good wife, while Princess Masako is regarded as selfish.
Exactly. This steams me almost more than anything, because hello, Masako gave up a brilliant career as a diplomat (on the North American bench no less!) to marry Naruhito and lots of people thought it would be a breath of fresh air to the palace. And look what happened to her.
I'm happy for Kiko, because I'm sure she was also under a huge amount of pressure to produce a male child, but the point was that she shouldn't have been under that pressure in the first place. If that damn 1947 law was repealed, her having a male child wouldn't matter. At all.
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Date: 2006-09-08 02:16 am (UTC)Exactly. This steams me almost more than anything, because hello, Masako gave up a brilliant career as a diplomat (on the North American bench no less!) to marry Naruhito and lots of people thought it would be a breath of fresh air to the palace. And look what happened to her.
I'm happy for Kiko, because I'm sure she was also under a huge amount of pressure to produce a male child, but the point was that she shouldn't have been under that pressure in the first place. If that damn 1947 law was repealed, her having a male child wouldn't matter. At all.