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It's both racist and sexist that Ashley thinks kimonos are female attire and that opening a kimono is sexual.

If your mental image of a kimono wearer is a vulnerable Japanese woman, as it may be if you are an American that's still reverberating with echos of WW2 racism, then Ashley's disgust makes some sense.



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