Talk:Eto Yoshimura/@comment-66.133.74.116-20180828051623/@comment-10733658-20180831001124

''Aura - independent, confident, strong and altogether successful woman: gets handicapped and for some reason author thought that most important thing to note in end is to say how she never got married in the end. Wtf!? WHY IN THE WORLD WAS THIS EXTREMELY UNIMPORTANT INFO EVEN MENTIONED??? When I read this, thing that popped in my head were 4chaners who's first question about some fictional woman was her virginity status since that apparently defined everything about her.''

The reason that information is brought up concerning Kiyoko Aura is because it's a reflection of a real-world issue within Japanese society. Japanese women having a serious career and working throughout their lives is still a relatively new thing in comparison to the Western world. Kiyoko's age places her as one of those early women that ignored societal expectations, something that is acknowledge in-series with her being a trailblazer for women working as Investigators.

The issue is that Japan has been slow in adapting to this cultural shift, with very specific expectations of how these things should go. Young women are generally filed into one of two paths when they start a job -- Office Ladies and actual employees. The Office Lady path is the more socially-acceptable one, with a young women working until she secures a husband and then becoming a housewife. To pursue an actual career, a Japanese woman is still expected to essentially sacrifice any personal relationships.

This is reflected in them noting that Kiyoko Aura remains unmarried and single her entire life. Because that is still the norm when a woman chooses to pursue her own career in Japan. She is expected to remain single, and not have a family to "distract" from her job. The women of Kiyoko Aura's generation, in particular, had to intentionally choose to forego family and love to have a career. Kasuka Mado is a very notable exception, because women having a career and a family is still unusual in Japan.

So it isn't a matter of "virginal purity lol", it's an accurate reflection of an on-going struggle for Japanese businesswomen.