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8/10/11

Alecto

Excerpt: What Japan's Youth Are Really Like (04.2006) [ForeignDispatches.typepad]

In a four country poll involving America, China, Japan and Korea, Japanese high school students came dead last in the emphasis they placed on academic achievement, while "being the most popular person in school" came first in their list of priorities; their chief expressed interests lay in consuming popular culture (TV dramas, manga), chatting on their mobile phones and fashion/shopping, in that order. [...]

The Hakuhodo Institute of Life and Living says boys no longer dream of becoming salarymen like their fathers, and that there is no "guaranteed path to contentment". [...]

8/9/11

Aino

"THE ONLY ONE"

DAPHNE GUINNESS

50 Graffiti

Freida Pinto

Best Hip Hop Videos
College Inc.

7/14/11

Adrastos

"NOT INCLINED TO RUN AWAY"

Water Taxi Of The Future

South Korea To Withdraw Printed Textbooks By 2015
"This idea could mean that students will not be reading old and obsolete materials. It could mean that student networks will create new ways of working together and completing projects...and that these projects might be more than homework. The projects could help solve real-world problems. Korean children could be working to improve their society and culture. It is great to see countries take good ideas and run with them."

MIT Unveils Paper Solar Cells
Spray Can Foam & Gels Cool Down Japan
Energy Efficient Motion Sensor Streetlights

9/4/10

Avdotya

FORM OF EUDOCIA

On Women and Street Harassment
COMMENTS
It really can be scary. I've had guys stop their cars at night and get out-like they think they're getting a date out of it or something. I've had a few guys try to follow me home. I don't think that guys get how frightening it is for some random guy to barge in and demand your attention, threatening verbal and possibly physical abuse if you don't give it.

Reply: The guys who do this know exactly how frightening it is. That's the whole point, to intimidate and assert their "rightful dominance." The guys who don't do this, but don't get why we're upset may never understand. They're not in our shoes. They just may never get it. But even if they don't get it, they need to "check their privilege."

The last time I got catcalled on the street, I went home with him and did him all night. It was the best sex I ever had!

Of course, that's totally not true. But I guess in the warped world some of these guys inhabit, it could happen.

Him: "How bout a threesome, y'all?"
Me: "Sure - you want her strap-on or mine in your mouth?"

The look on his face was fucking. priceless.