One thing i dislike is double standards. On NPR today they were discussing about administering HPV vaccines to 11-12 year old girls and boys. Yes boys can get HPV too, and this can lead to various cancers, and HPS is contagious. However, this is what struck me, parents are easily accepting their 11 or 12 year old boys taking this vaccination which helps prevent against the sexually transmitted disease. For daughters, this is harder for parents.
It is easier for parents to accept their teenage boys are going to go out and have sex? The sooner a boy has sex, the sooner he becomes a man?
However when it comes to a teenage girl having sex, this is very undesirable, upsetting? If it's OK for the teenage boy to have sex, who is he going to have sex with?
It's OK for a man to be a player, and to be unmarried way into his 30s, but not for a woman. The double standards continue and woman are still stuck in the stereotype/gender role. A woman is never a player, she becomes a $%*#.
Maybe we need to step back and look at the gender roles/stereotypes we play, and how we can change these stereotypes that keep us locked in a role/behavior!
http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2011/11/07/142030282/why-hpv-vaccination-of-boys-may-be-easier
Second thought of the day:
The news is skewed and the perspectives all biased. However a youtube video speaks the truth? Candid cameras speak the truth? Hidden cameras are likely to be unbiased? Perhaps, to a point.
It is in my opinion, that these too can be skewed/filmed in such a way at times that it can be biased.
http://www.npr.org/2011/11/07/142016109/smile-youre-on-cop-camera
As we become a more digital age, it is good people get their "news" and information from more than ONE source (school/college/and what used to be the news in general - paper/radio/tv). This has helped broaden people's minds. Also its been feeding people a lot of crap (yes i used the word crap), because how many of these digital sources are legitimate? How can we trust scientists when politicians say that they are fabricating global warming data, and research on polar bears... Who do we trust? Who do we believe?
There is one thing i learnt from television ... Trust No One! (X-Files)
It is Marie Curie's birthday today!
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2011/11/07/marie-curie-honoured-with-birthday-google-doodle-115875-23544243/
It is easier for parents to accept their teenage boys are going to go out and have sex? The sooner a boy has sex, the sooner he becomes a man?
However when it comes to a teenage girl having sex, this is very undesirable, upsetting? If it's OK for the teenage boy to have sex, who is he going to have sex with?
It's OK for a man to be a player, and to be unmarried way into his 30s, but not for a woman. The double standards continue and woman are still stuck in the stereotype/gender role. A woman is never a player, she becomes a $%*#.
Maybe we need to step back and look at the gender roles/stereotypes we play, and how we can change these stereotypes that keep us locked in a role/behavior!
http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2011/11/07/142030282/why-hpv-vaccination-of-boys-may-be-easier
Second thought of the day:
The news is skewed and the perspectives all biased. However a youtube video speaks the truth? Candid cameras speak the truth? Hidden cameras are likely to be unbiased? Perhaps, to a point.
It is in my opinion, that these too can be skewed/filmed in such a way at times that it can be biased.
http://www.npr.org/2011/11/07/142016109/smile-youre-on-cop-camera
As we become a more digital age, it is good people get their "news" and information from more than ONE source (school/college/and what used to be the news in general - paper/radio/tv). This has helped broaden people's minds. Also its been feeding people a lot of crap (yes i used the word crap), because how many of these digital sources are legitimate? How can we trust scientists when politicians say that they are fabricating global warming data, and research on polar bears... Who do we trust? Who do we believe?
There is one thing i learnt from television ... Trust No One! (X-Files)
It is Marie Curie's birthday today!
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2011/11/07/marie-curie-honoured-with-birthday-google-doodle-115875-23544243/
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