{"id":32229,"date":"2016-11-27T08:30:07","date_gmt":"2016-11-27T16:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.niteflirt.com\/news\/?p=32229"},"modified":"2016-11-18T18:22:52","modified_gmt":"2016-11-19T02:22:52","slug":"tokyo-comic-con-bans-men-from-cross-dressing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.niteflirt.com\/news\/tokyo-comic-con-bans-men-from-cross-dressing\/","title":{"rendered":"Tokyo Comic-Con Bans Men From Cross-Dressing\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.niteflirt.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/bieber.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-30217 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.niteflirt.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/bieber.png\" alt=\"bieber\" width=\"307\" height=\"203\" \/><\/a>There&#8217;s one thing you won&#8217;t find at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/tokyocomiccon\/\">Tokyo Comic-Con<\/a> among the hordes of guests and celebrity cosplayers: men cross-dressing as female characters. It seems gender-bending for men is strictly forbidden, according to the official site. There is no rule for women, however, about cosplaying as men.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ban uses the Japanese word \u201cjyosou\u201d (<span style=\"font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';\">\u5973\u88c5<\/span>), a word which is defined as &#8216;wearing female clothing&#8217; and which has the explicit nuance of referring to men wearing women\u2019s clothing,\u201d reports\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/jezebel.com\/\"><i>Jezebel<\/i><\/a>. While Tokyo Comic-Con&#8217;s rule might seem surprising considering Japan&#8217;s long tradition of men dressing as women in kabuki theater, the ban at otaku events is relatively common there. It seems the event&#8217;s organizers are concerned about large numbers of men dressed as women showing up. Perhaps Japan should take a page from its own history and un-tie the bunch in its panties?<\/p>\n<p>Looking for some action yourself? Whether or not you&#8217;re into cross-dressing, we&#8217;re always <a href=\"https:\/\/www.niteflirt.com\">down to play<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Check out more about Tokyo Comic-Con&#8217;s ban on men cosplaying as women here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/tokyo-comic-con-bans-men-from-cosplaying-as-women-chara-1788225504?utm_campaign=socialflow_jezebel_facebook&amp;utm_source=jezebel_facebook&amp;utm_medium=socialflow\" target=\"_blank\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=https:\/\/kotaku.com\/tokyo-comic-con-bans-men-from-cosplaying-as-women-chara-1788225504?utm_campaign%3Dsocialflow_jezebel_facebook%26utm_source%3Djezebel_facebook%26utm_medium%3Dsocialflow&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1478382840656000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFOKa6gIYiHDe7eBNuHoVmUpL9K3Q\">https:\/\/kotaku.com\/tokyo-comic-<wbr \/>con-bans-men-from-cosplaying-<wbr \/>as-women-chara-1788225504<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s one thing you won&#8217;t find at the Tokyo Comic-Con among the hordes of guests and celebrity cosplayers: men cross-dressing as female characters. It seems gender-bending for men is strictly forbidden, according to the official site. There is no rule for women, however, about cosplaying as men. \u201cThe ban uses the Japanese word \u201cjyosou\u201d (\u5973\u88c5), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[11597,11596,8638,11600,8634,11599,9561,11598,641,8636,11595],"class_list":["post-32229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-insights","tag-ban","tag-comic-con","tag-cosplay","tag-cosplayers","tag-cross-dressing","tag-gender-bender","tag-japan","tag-jyosou","tag-men","tag-tokyo","tag-tokyo-comic-con"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Tokyo Comic-Con Bans Men From Cross-Dressing\u00a0 - NiteFlirt News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.niteflirt.com\/news\/tokyo-comic-con-bans-men-from-cross-dressing\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Tokyo Comic-Con Bans Men From Cross-Dressing\u00a0 - NiteFlirt News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"There&#8217;s one thing you won&#8217;t find at the Tokyo Comic-Con among the hordes of guests and celebrity cosplayers: men cross-dressing as female characters. 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