Talk:Sada Abe

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Contents 1 Biography assessment rating comment 2 Did Abe die in 1969? 3 BLP 4 sex 5 Sexual perversion charge?

[edit] Biography assessment rating comment

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[edit] Did Abe die in 1969?

I found a blog post [1] (I know they are not reliable sources) which claims Sada Abe died at the age of 64. Anybody able to confim or deny that? --DaKine 21:11, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] BLP

The rape allegations are a WP:BLP violation, IMO, and if they are restored again it will be reported to the BLP noticeboard. This is a living person who is not a public figure and I can see no reason to claim here that she was raped at 14. Even if true it doesnt help the biography and could very much be seen as an attack on the subject of the article, SqueakBox 22:12, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

The information is apparently correctly sourced. I've restored it, but extra opinions from WP:BLPN might not be a bad idea. Videmus Omnia ^Talk 22:28, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

I have reported it at the blp noticeboard. We arent here to out rape victims and this is as clear a BLP violation as I haver zseen. restoring dubious BLP material may lead to a block as BLP is an important policy and we should defend the privacy of rape victims, SqueakBox 22:33, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

Are you saying the reported information is not from a reliable source? Videmus Omnia ^Talk 22:39, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

SqueakBox, um ... there must be a polite way to ask this, and forgive me if I haven't found it ... have you read the article in question?

1. It's rather doubtful she's a living person, since she was born in 1905, but let's grant that
2. She certainly is a public figure, if "The story became a national sensation in Japan, developing mythic overtones, and has since been interpreted by artists, philosophers, novelists and filmmakers.[1]" is true. 3 movies about her life: if that's not a public figure, nothing is.
3. Her notability comes from "erotically asphyxiating her lover, Kichizo Ishida and then cutting off his penis and testicles on May 18, 1936, and carrying them around with her in her handbag." And you aren't objecting to this, but you are objecting to a mention of a rape, based on her own words, and backed by a published book? I mean, yes, for most people being raped would be the biggest most controversial issue in their lives ... but I think her main item of notability clearly qualifies as more controversial. By a long shot.
4. Doesn't help the biography? Hmm, whether or not someone famous for a horrendous sex crime was raped as a young girl, would that have any effect on their main notability, would it be important? I'd have to say yes, it would be rather blatantly important.
5. Yes, we have to source it, but that's been done, unless you choose to question the sourcing. --AnonEMouse ^(squeak) 22:40, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

Just to interject here-- The quote from the book is not just from any old interview with Sada Abe (which would seem to me to be sufficient in itself), but from a full transcription of a police interrogation of Sada Abe. If that's not acceptable as evidence... what is? (By the way, the book has some droll, amusing comments from Donald Richie who met Abe at her club in 1969... it's going to provide some interesting material for the article.) Dekkappai 23:05, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

We should certainly assume she is alive as plenty of people are at that age. The real question begs why are we categorising her as a rape victim? and regardless of the reliability of the source is this not an intrusion on her privacy? and thus a BLP vio. The cat was speedied as a BLP nightmare and then, wrongly IMO, reionstated by another user. It is a BLP nightmare and therefore we should not use it for living people, its the cat I really object to and on BLP grounds, SqueakBox 23:11, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

Umm, because she claimed to be a rape victim? Videmus Omnia ^Talk 23:13, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

That is no reason to have it in her article here, and esp as a cat, SqueakBox 23:15, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

(edit conflicts) Because, according to testimony given by Abe herself to the police, she is a rape victim, and because Wikipedia has a Category:Rape victims. If that category is deleted, it should be deleted here. If not, since she was a rape victim, she should be in that category. What's to misunderstand here? Dekkappai 23:15, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

Let's put the category business aside here, I at least am doing my best to assume you're not just doing this to make a point about Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2007_July_23#Category:Rape_victims. We're writing that she was raped because it's an important fact to our article, irreplaceable, even. Is that part accepted? If so, we can leave the category business to the Cfd discussion - if it gets deleted, that settles that, if it doesn't, that also settles that.--AnonEMouse ^(squeak) 23:17, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons does not mean we can't publish anything bad about anyone, it merely means that we need to source it impeccably. This is cited to a book published by a university-affiliated scholarly press, an academic source, the best kind according to Wikipedia:Verifiability. It meets WP:BLP. --AnonEMouse ^(squeak) 23:21, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

This isnt something bad. Something bad is her cutting off her lover's penis and I dont object to including that, being a rape victim is soemthing else. In the UK and elsewhere there are laws to protect the identity of rape victims, this wasnt her fault and hence it shouldnt be included because it is a provacy intrusion, and thae category is the essenjce of this BLP vio, leave the impeccably sourced rape in the text is okay but to put a living person in the rape victims cat is not okay, SqueakBox 23:24, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

That sounds like an issue for WP:CFD, not this particular article. Videmus Omnia ^Talk 23:28, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

Its a BLP issue in this case. There may be legitimate uses of the cat (eg its in some Roman bio which is okay as it doesnt hurt anyone) so I would argue its case by case and thus does involve this article. Im may try to change the cat to ionly include dead people (its being talked about on the cat talk) but amw aiting for the cfd, SqueakBox 23:44, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

OK, one step at a time. We have agreement to put in the text. Hurrah! Let's let the CFD discussion decide on the cat. --AnonEMouse ^(squeak) 23:34, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

Good the 2 squeaks can agree on some things! SqueakBox 23:45, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] sex

sex is a universal habit in animals and humans. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.65.157.18 (talk) 05:52, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Sexual perversion charge?

Jack Seward makes the following claim [2]:

In the end, Sada was charged with murder and corpse mutilation and was brought to trial. She admitted to these charges but when she learned she was charged with sexual perversion, she got pissed. She didnt like that she was charged for being a hentai-seiyokusha (a sex pervert) she was only a ijo-seiyokusha (an oversexed person) so she took advantage of her right to legal counsel.

So, like, the court decided she wasn't a perv just oversexed and she was happy about tht and admitted her guilt to the other charges of murder and corpse mutilation and was given a sentence of only 6 years in prison!

(Note: the above is the blog author's text, not Seward's original.)

I've heard variation of this ever since, but the Japanese version just notes that 「世間から変態、変態と言われるのが辛い」と逮捕直後からもらしている。, without specifying any charges, and a Japanese search for 変体性欲者 or 以上性欲者 didn't come up with anything. There's a login-required link on MUSE about the case [3], can somebody access it? Jpatokal (talk) 10:45, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

I'm pretty sure I remember reading about the perversion charge in the Johnston book. He probably just repeats the version that is most common-- but I'll take a look into it later. Certainly, if anyone has access to the Japanese sources (I believe transcripts of the trial were published), that would be the source to cite. Dekkappai (talk) 16:59, 17 April 2008 (UTC)