Four Men with Different Incomes
Friday, April 29, 2016
Monday, April 25, 2016
Who’s Afraid of Gender-Neutral Bathrooms?
For those who are gender non-conforming, it is hard to decide which bathroom to use.
When one's appearance or biological sex don't match his/her sexual identity, it often causes a trouble especially in the gender-segregated places such as bathrooms.
Historically, there was time where men and women were segregated in various ways in order to protect women from the crude danger of the male world. However, times have changed and people are seeking for equality now. Perhaps, the public bathroom is the only everyday social institution in which separation by gender is the norm.
Why don't make all the bathrooms gender neutral then?
Apparently, this is a both social custom and laws themselves. A part of the problem is that businesses are legally prohibited from offering only gender-neutral bathrooms.
Another problem is that there are certain amount of people who think gender neutral bathrooms would result in the increase of sexual assaults. In fact, Indiana has recently proposed a law that would make it a crime for a person to enter a single-sex public bathroom that does not match the person's biological gender.
However the correlation between the effect of gender neutral bathroom and sexual assaults is not based on or supported by statistics.
Personally I think gender-neutral bathrooms are also good for women if we could think it as a remedy for an enormous line for the women's bathroom. I do not think it would directly cause the increase of sexual assaults. There are lots of cafes and restaurants that have only gender-neutral bathrooms in Tokyo. However, if closed stalls would shield others from view, there seems to be no difference between gender-segregated and gender-neutral. Revising the existing laws might not be so easy but gender-neutral bathroom should be accepted widely.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/04/18/why-all-public-bathrooms-should-be-gender-neutral.html
http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/whos-afraid-of-same-sex-bathrooms
Gap kids accused of passive racism in new advertisement
What do you think and how do you feel when you see this
advertisement?
This is an advertisement from Gap Kids x ED.
It's a promotion aimed at empowering girls. As you can see we can see girls who
are energetic and taking a pose in a cool way.
However Gap`s aim was to empower girls, this
advertisement is said that it may have a political message as undermining young
black girls.
On this picture we can find a white girl who is resting her arm on
top of the black girl. It is just a pose
for promoting gap, but large number of Americans didn’t seem to take the
picture so. By hearing the public opinion toward this, Gap spokeswoman Debbie
Felix promptly apologized for the situation before promising to remove the
seemingly innocent photo.
Why is Harvard trying to Ban Single Gender Finals Clubs?
Harvard, the worldly famous university, is
about to make an enormous decision.
Harvard’s exclusive single-sex social
clubs, known as “final clubs, have been the center of Harvard's elitism and
symbol of wealth from the 1790's. Unlike the image society has with them, the
club was formerly made by a group of men who were tired of the food helpings
provided by the university. However, there is no trace to what was the founding
reason of the club now as the final clubs have now become the problem of the
school. The final clubs are now the place for women to be sexually assaulted.
It is reported that 47 percent of the women who participated in final club
activities experienced “non-consensual sexual contact.”
It is no wonder that the final clubs, which
mostly are the names of all men clubs, do not allow women to join the club. If there
are women in the final clubs, there will be less chances of the horrible men
assaulting women.
LINK: https://www.boston.com/culture/education/2016/04/17/harvards-male-final-clubs-explainer
Sunday, April 24, 2016
How Democrats Corrupt the English Language
Can you imagine that how many corgis raised by Elizabeth?
There are numerous species of dogs in the world. However, probably the corgis are more meaningful in the England. Because Queen Elizabeth breeds corgis more than 30 during she's term of office. The first corgis -her name is "Susan"- is received as her 18th birthday present. And the dogs, even after Susan, most dogs are descendants of Susan. Besides, the Queen imports the new breed of dog named by a dorgi-mated with a corgi and a dachshund. The Queen Elizabeth is always with her puppies. Elizabeth now only has four dogs – two corgis and two dorgis. Because, she expresses her thinking that she no longer breeding new pets because she does not want to leave her lovely puppies when she dies.
http://home.bt.com/news/uk-news/queen-photographed-with-beloved-dogs-in-annie-leibovitz-birthday-portrait-11364053166631
Would you dine at London's first naked restaurant?
According to the column, the restaurant “The
Bunyadi” (a Hindi term meaning ‘fundamental’, ‘base’ or ‘natural’), which
already has a waiting list of more than 4000, will be open for three months
from June 2016. What special about this restaurant is, the restaurant will be
London’s first naked restaurant.
On
arrival, customers will be escorted to a changing room and light down the
clothing. The customers can also be naked if they wish.
The
restaurant will offer a menu which will all cooked on a wood fire and served on
handmade clay crockery. Also they will use natural bamboo partitions and
candlelight to create the mood. The masterminds, Lyall, believes people should
get to experience a night out without any impurities: no chemicals, no electricity
and even no clothes in order to be free from the “trappings of the industrialized-world”.
The
project sounds so weird and incomprehensible for me, however, some vegans and
naturists might think it rational since they can experience very fundamental night
in a way.
Where do Harvard Business School MBA's work after graduating.
HBS organises the top MBA program in the world. Graduates regarded as “leader of business”. Some graduates start their own business as an entrepreneur, but most of them gonna be elite soldiers of companies. Where do they go?
See it in Industry, more than half of graduates chose Consulting or Financial services industry. Financial Services industry has decreased the share, on the other hand, IT industry success to get.
Consulting industry and Financial industry offers more salary year by year. It was 125k$ in 2011, now is 140k$. IT industry enhances their popularity double in 5 years, also getting their salary higher. 115k in 2011 and 125k in 2015. anyway, 75% of graduates chose Finance/Consulting/IT industry.
see in functions, consulting and finance is popular. Until 2012, these two have occupied 60%, now is just above 50%. on the other hand, General Management getting more popular.
The percentage of graduates who find a job in international getting lower. 20% in 2011 but 15% in 2015.85% of graduates decide to stay in the US, and half of them chose 3 cities. Boston, NY where wall street has and CA especially Silicon Valley.
the trend has not changed.
It’s a hard time for the Financial industry. Goldman Sachs have decided cut their salary. The financial industry is like “sell your soul and be rich” but perhaps we cannot be rich anymore.
Business school is expensive course, and this may force graduates work harder. I hope they will spend a healthy life.
source:http://www.hbs.edu/recruiting/data/Pages/detailed-charts.aspx?year=2015
source:http://www.hbs.edu/recruiting/data/Pages/detailed-charts.aspx?year=2015
Who are Lena Dunham and Susan Sarandon? Who they support in the Presidential race, and why??
(Lena Dunham: left, Susan Sarandon: right)
Lena Dunham is an
actress, writer, producer and director. She is known for the HBO series Girls. Susan Sarandon is also an
actress, and she is an Academy Award and BAFTA Award winner. She is known for
her social and political activism for liberal causes. They are both from New
York.
Lena Dunham
supports Hilary Clinton because she believes that Hilary Clinton is a feminist
who had fought for “women’s rights”. Dunham says
that she was moved, and that it reminded her that women can all fight to rise
above.
Susan
Sarandon supports Bernie Sanders. She says the reason why she supports him is
that “He’s been visible on all the issues that I
care about for years and years and years". He opposed the war in Iraq, he
stood up for gay men and women, and he also did some activities for climate and
environment issues. Sarandon and Sanders have the same way of viewing problems.
Saturday, April 23, 2016
The Washington Post: What are "Super Zips" and why are so many clustered around Washington DC?
According to the article, Super Zips are the zip codes which have a
high percentage of residents with education and high income. Washington D.C. have
many Super Zips, and the feature is many of these cluster around there.
The mechanism of this phenomenon isn’t complex. First, the rich people
who “want to be in a place that has an atmosphere of intellectual curiosity”
comes to the metropolitan area. On one hand, others who have lived there for a
long time cannot pay the rent and they have to leave for outside because the prices of the
lands got higher due to the increased demand. Therefore this leads to the repeating
process of the wealthy population to swarm in the metropolitan area and the
rest to live around them.
The reporter says this phenomenon causes the economically bipolarization.
I think it’s dangerous for the American economy to lost middle-income class which
plays an important role in Economic growth.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/local/2013/11/09/washington-a-world-apart/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/local/2013/11/09/washington-a-world-apart/
What happened to Intel?
Intel is announcing 12,000 layoffs, because of their failing to join a smartphone market. There are three main reasons for the failure.
First, the previous CEO, Paul Otellini, was not so willing to go into the mobile market.
Second, they turned down Apple's proposal to make chips for the iPhone; iPhone is one of the most prevailing devices, therefore they could have succeeded.
The other reason for their failure is they could not gain traction with their mobile-friendly chip, the Atom.
Another reason they have to cut many jobs comes from their blunder that they focused too much on desktop PC technology; in 2015, PC sales was worst, while the number of smartphone sales is increasing.
However, they have some strategies for the trouble. In a servers-market, they can take the initiative with their high-power computers. In also an area of IoT, they still have some possibilities to success.
Citation: http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/what-happened-intel-its-halcyon-days-are-over-after-failing-join-mobile-revolution-1555866
Man Buns
Man buns — the hairstyle where men pull back their hair
and tie a single bun on their head, often with a full beard, is the hot trend
going on centered around hipsters. Giving an androgynous look by
growing out their hair, man buns are the perfect hairdo for those hipsters who
want to differentiate themselves from others.
Hipsters are a group of people who are not easily forced into stereotypes, those wanting to be the “outsider” of a group, constructing a character of being indifferent. This does not only refer to the hairstyles they wear, but also the music they listen to, the clothes they wear, and even the politicians they support. For example in the presidential election, many hipsters are rooting for Bernie Sanders, a socialist, to become President.
These hipsters being brainwashed of having the idea of “all different is good” and trying to give more hideous trends and ideas, like the man bun, needs to wake up and know that “not all different is good.”
http://americanirony.us/heres-the-thing-about-bernie-sanders-hes-a-hipster-fad/#sthash.7U9jdXuV.dpbs
Thursday, April 21, 2016
Andrew Shaw is suspended for his anti-gay slur
Blackhawks’
player, Andrew Shaw, shouted anti-gay words in the penalty box. As a result,
the NHL suspended him for one game and imposed a heavy fine of $5000.
Furthermore, he will be required to go thorough sensitivity training.
This
news signifies that the United States has the culture of never tolerating anti-gay
slurs. At the same time, it also represents that, in reality, not all Americans
are accepting gay. The situation is somewhat different from Japanese sports society
because Japanese athletes are more severely criticized for illegal gambling, rather than
anti-minority remarks.
In the
United States, insensitive anti-sexual minority statement can threaten athletes’ career
quite easily.
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