From: yoichi@carson.u.washington.edu (Yoichi Ii)
Subject: Re: Three-legged Rika-chan
Keywords: conspiracy,feminism,CIA
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 05:15:46 GMT

(Wm. Douglas Withers -- math  FACULTY <wdw@sma.usna.navy.mil>) writes:
> ...
>The first reported sighting of the three-legged Rika-chan came from a female
>middle-school student in (I think) Yamanashi-ken.  She had gone into the
>restroom alone and found there a Rika-chan doll.  This particular doll
>differed from most in two important respects:  (1) it had three legs; and
>(2) it was alive.  The doll addressed the student, saying `I'm Rika-chan,'
>and then sprang up and jumped out of the window.
> ...
>This was followed by more than 30 reported sightings, apparently always by
>female middle-school students.                                   ^^^^^^
> ...

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\begin{conspiracy}[O. Stone]

At first I was rather puzzled by the report of this bizzare phenomenon, but
upon reflection (with my superior deductive reasoning power) I now know that 
this can only be the result of one thing: a conspiracy by a radical feminist 
group from the US.  Let me explain.

First, the "sighting" of animated Rika-chan dolls is obviously a some sort of
delusion.  What these girls are experiencing is probably a botched attempt
or a side effect of mind control or brainwashing by somebody.  I'm not sure
how these were done, perhaps it is through subliminal messages contained in
various shoujo-manga (girls' comics), anime TV shows, or pop musics.

Second, we need no explanation to conclude that the message contains images
related to male or maleness.  Various ideas relating to oppressed women living
in a male dominated society and the inevitable radical struggle to overthrow it
(becoming more "man" than men) are becoming mixed up and contorted in these 
poor little girls' mind to generate these hideous images of masculinized, 
disfigured Rika-chans.

Third, it is clear from that fact that Rika-chan speaks English ("I'm 
Rika-chan"), the plotters are from an English speaking country.  It is
well known that most radical of the feminist groups are located in the
US, perhaps concentrated around Evanston, IL.

Thus we can conclude with relative confidence that: 1) Japanese middle school
girls (age at which kids are most impressionable to their future roles
in society) are being targetted by a fanatical American feminist group with
ultraist ideas of overthrowing the male-dominated Japanese society and
destroying the traditional Japanese family in which a MAN goes to work
and a woman stays home and take care of the kids.  Such a destruction would
lead to certain and complete destruction of Japan's social and economic 
structures -- which brings up a definite possibility of involvement by the
CIA who, after the dismantling of USSR, considers Japan as #1 enemy of the US.
2) They are trying to accomplish this through mind control. 3) The direct 
result of this nefarious attempt is the terrible psychological torment forced 
upon these innocent girls.

We, MEN of Japan, must band together and protect our children, women, and 
family values against these insideous foreign plotters!

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\end{sexism}
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