Koizumi Dissappoints

Koizumi, my Beloved Leader, is a turn-coat!
He promised to change the law to allow for a female, namely Aiko-chan, to become the future Empress, but now that Princess Kiko (the wife of Prince Akishino) is pregnant, the bastard back-pedals in case a boy is born into the Imperial family! I will neve forget this, Lionheart!

As so many feminists in Japan have said, this is truly a step back for the feminist struggle in Japan. I'm not much of a feminist ( the clear-headed Andrea Dworkin being my thing, feminism-wise), but I would never ever support any system that acknowledges a difference between men and women in how they manage a job. In what way would a woman be worse at being a symbol of a country, I ask you?
Looking at the current role of the Emperor, he is passive. He is medial; a mere symbol. Why wouldn't a woman do it just as well? Or more controversially, do we, as feminists, actually want a woman who is so unpolitical a symbol? Having an empress would be the absolute ideal woman. Might that not send the wrong idea to young Japanese women: the higher you get, the more 'token' you are?
Women are used as a token example of how 'equal' Japan is. Koizumi himself used 'lipstick ninja' in the latest election. Koizumi is being dishonest, but in a Japanese way: He bars women (and Aiko-chan) from becoming a symbol of Japan, yet uses women to support his political agenda. There have also been worries that the future empress (Aiko-chan) might be educated abroad and, get this: (shock, horror) fall in LOVE with a foreigner.. Jaysus. Only Japanese women fall in love with foreign, Western men. Japanese men, I gather, only fall in love with Japanese women?
I don't expect many readers for my re-started lame blog.
Miriam