So Much For "Yaya Meals" - How About Male Executive Toilets

So the story over the weekend was about how model/fashion designer Maggie Wilson-Consunji was rubbed the wrong way in an incident at the exclusive Balesin Island Club where she discovered the "Yaya's Meal".  Just like the general public, I sympathize with Maggie.  But, I don't want to elaborate on the Yaya's meal incident.  One can read that elsewhere on the internet.   Besides, I get reminded of the Torre de Manila monstrosity behind the Rizal monument at Luneta by mere word association.

So if it's discrimination we're talking about, nothing rises to the top than what I stumbled upon.  Yaya's meal is nothing.  In this quick picture, one can see four different doors to personal relief.  The doors are, Male Toilet, Male Executive Toilet, Female Executive Toilet, and Female Toilet.  So here we are, this is a four way discrimination which sets the Yaya's meal issue to the corner.

No, this picture of four CR doors does not belittle people by what I see as, "down-labeling" as in the Yaya meal incident.  But it does have the unnecessary pleasure of "up-labeling" the idiots in management who create such controversies as this.  It simply states in a not so subtle way, "We executives piss in a different manner than the rest of you from the rank and file".

Baahh, maybe I give too much meaning to simple signs.  I could just be overreacting.  Then again, reader, what do you think?

She's Hot! : Christine Tan of CNBC

Christine Tan is the Singapore-based anchor for CNBC's longest-running feature program  "Managing Asia". She also anchors "Worldwide Exchange", CNBC's groundbreaking program coming live every weekday from Asia, Europe and the U.S.  interviewing prominent CEOs and leaders of top companies doing business in Asia.

Tan has more than 16 years experience in journalism, more than half of which was with CNBC. During her career, she has covered the business and financial market impact from major news events like the Asian Economic Crisis, the Dot Com Bubble Crash, 9-11 attacks in the US and SARS Outbreak.

She received the Best News Program award at the 2004 Asian Television Awards on behalf of The Asian Wall Street Journal. The same program also won a finalist award at the 2004 New York Festivals for Coverage of a Breaking News Story.

Christine Tan also received Silver World Medal for Best Anchor at the 2009 New York Festivals Television Programming and Promotion Awards. She also won for Best Current Affairs Presenter award at the 2008 Asian Television Awards.  She was a finalist for Best News Anchor in 2001 and 2002 at the New York Festivals Awards and also a Best Current Affairs Presenter finalist at the 1997 and 2006 Asian Television Awards.

She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology and English and a Masters of Arts with Honors in Sociology from the University of Auckland, New Zealand.

Cougars, Finances, and Career

Older women dating men younger than them seems to be a current trend. “Cougars” is the popular term for such matured older women. Celebrity women who have reached a certain age are finding happiness with younger guys.  Demi Moore is perhaps the leading example of this trend as she married Ashton Kutcher who was 15 years her junior.  Madonna was married to Guy Richie (10 years younger) and when she split with him, she hooked up with Alex Rodriguez (15 years younger.)

Older women find younger men appealing for several reasons.  Cougars tend to be successful career women.  They have high level executive positions in major firms or own their own businesses.  Many men their own age are threatened by their successes.  Younger men, who were raised in a more egalitarian era, are likely to be supportive of the women in their lives.

Older women dating younger men also point to their partner’s youthful outlook on life.  These men aren’t jaded about things like their older counterparts are.

Then there is the sex.  Women peak sexually in their late 30s and into their 40s while men reach their greatest performance levels at age 19 and then decline.  Many women feel that they missed out on something when they were younger and more inexperienced.  The sexual prowess of a younger man is quite attractive to many women in their 30s and 40s.

But, the older women dating younger men trend works both ways.  Many younger men find dating an older woman to be very rewarding.

Part of the attraction is certainly sexual.  A mature woman knows her body.  She knows what pleases her and she is not afraid to take the lead in the bedroom.  Guys find this confidence to be quite the turn on.

Young men who date financially secure older women are also more likely to be able to chart their own path in terms of a career.  There is less pressure to make money now when a woman can foot some of the bills.  Many men dating cougars have found that they can return to graduate school or start a business – risks that wouldn’t be possible if they were dating women their own age.

Men are also likely to appreciate that older women are more emotionally mature and less needy.  There is quite a bit less drama in a older women dating younger men relationship.  After a fight, an older woman is less likely to call her sister or her best friend to rehash the experience.  She’ll likely go to bed and tell her boyfriend they can discuss it in the morning.

One of the challenges in these cougar relationships is over fertility.  An older women usually either already has children or doesn’t want them.  Many of these relationships break up because the man wants the chance to be a father.  If you can weather that storm, the relationships tend to be unusually strong.

Because of societal trends, the older women dating younger men movement is not likely to go away any time soon.

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