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Women-Only Busses? And Men-Only Flights?

Written by MackDoppler

This must be a coincidence (after having written last week about All Nippon Airways designating one of the lavatories on each international flight as being “women only”). I was watching NGK World (which is a Japanese TV net work that also broadcasts in other countries) yesterday and they showed a short “filler” story on long-distance busses in Japan, which for reasons of price and convenience have become very popular with the traveling public.

And wouldn’t you know it? That’s right, the latest marketing gimmick is to offer “women only” busses on some of the main routes. There are of course no “men only” busses to compensate, though … the discrimination runs in one direction only.

Having a Lavatory on Airplanes Just for Women?

Written by MackDoppler

I recently ran across an article on the Straits Times (a Singapore newspaper) website, titled “Women-only lavatory”, which reported that ANA (All Nippon Airways, a large Japanese airline) has announced that it will designate one toilet on each international flight as being “for woman-only”.

Why would they do something like that? They explained their reasoning thusly:

“… a survey of women fliers identified it [a women-only lavatory] as the second most attractive service they wished for after being offered desserts.”

Should You Manage Your Marriage Like a Business?

Written by MackDoppler

I ran across an article on the Business Week website titled “Should You Manage Your Marriage Like a Business?” which was written by Louis Upkins Jr. and dated December 29, 2009.

He points to the usual dire statistics regarding marriage failure, proposes five business strategies of the sort that you would be likely to find in a textbook for a university business class and then fleshes out how each might be adapted to the marital arena.

Infidelity and Lying

Written by MackDoppler

I recently ran across a rather refreshing commentary on The Daily Beast website which was titled “I Just Can’t Hate John Edwards” and which was written by Eric Alterman.

Among other things, what made this one refreshing was that it was delightfully missing the self-righteous tone that self-appointed mating behavior critics have made de rigueur in any discussion of male infidelity the last quite a few years. Finally … a voice of sanity!

Women, Marriage and Breach of Promise

Written by MackDoppler

Every now and then when I get bored, I’ll browse through the Wikipedia website and then click on “Random Article” to see what pops up.
Most of the time, something arcane will load (such as a write-up on “Activity-Centered Ergonomics” or on the history of some random Canadian radio station) and I’ll just click it again.

But every now and again, something interesting will pop up.

One such page I found the other day discussed the (now largely archaic) legal concept of “Breach of Promise”. I had been vaguely aware of the fact that there used to be such a thing, but it was interesting to revisit that concept in more depth.

For Love? Or For Money?

Written by MackDoppler

I ran across an article in the Philadelphia Daily News titled “Spitzer’s call girl makes a point” which was written by Jenice Armstrong, a Daily News Columnist, and dated September 9, 2009.

She started by mentioning some comments made by Ashley Dupré (who had been the high-priced escort whose assignations with Elliot Spitzer had gotten him bounced out of politics — and into ignominy — when these became public).