Talk:Lisa Clemente Ulrique Exler/@comment-35.138.0.240-20200627030521/@comment-45880342-20200711173032

Hey, everyone, can we maybe leave degrading terms for women out of this Wiki? I'd hope we have higher standards than that...

Ghosty, the term comes from the Japanese tradition of eating a sponge cake covered with whipped cream and strawberries on Christmas evening, which became popular after WW2 due to influence from American GIs as well as the newfound availability in large quantities of things like sugar, butter, and milk, which prior to then had been reserved for elites. Since it's supposed to be eaten on the 25th, a cake left over is considered worthless by the stores and thus commonly given for (nearly) free or simply tossed out.

The slang usage has been around since at least the 90s, since Japanese society does tend to be pretty rough on unmarried women after about that age, and it's only gotten worse since over time it started being applied to divorced and widowed women as well. Unfortunately, it seems that's pretty much explicitly baked into Lisa's character profile, as it's noted that she feels like nobody wants her because of her age (by the time she meets Wend, she's 29).