Tokyo Olympics Chief Suggests Limits for Women at Meetings
Source: New York Times
The president, Yoshiro Mori, stoked a social media backlash after news reports emerged of his comments demeaning women during an executive meeting of the Japanese Olympic Committee that was held online.
On boards with a lot of women, the board meetings take so much time, Mr. Mori, 83, said to laughter, according to a report in the Asahi Shimbun, one of the countrys largest daily newspapers. Women have a strong sense of competition. If one person raises their hand, others probably think, I need to say something too. Thats why everyone speaks.
Mr. Mori, a former prime minister, was responding to a question asking him to comment on the Olympic committees plan to increase the number of women board members to more than 40 percent of the total.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/03/sports/olympics/tokyo-olympics-yoshiro-mori.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur
The inscrutable Orient...
McKim
(2,412 posts)Yes women talk and that helps them think of new ideas, it's a process that has better outcomes than closed minds who say little. As Harris said: "I am speaking!!"
cp
(6,655 posts)Thank you.
trueblue2007
(17,237 posts)Nitram
(22,869 posts)most. Recent revelations that Japans leading medical school had manipulated entrance exam scores to exclude women for more than a decade generated global headlines. Leading high schools require high school entrance exams, but because girls tend to score higher in those examinations, schools require them to have higher scores than boys for enrollment.
In 2017, journalist Shiori Ito became the first Japanese woman to speak publicly about the sexual violence she had experienced, after prosecutors decided to drop her case. Instead of being praised for her courage in speaking out, she faced a public backlash including death threats. Women and men branded her an embarrassment and she was mocked on television by Japanese officials for immoral behavior and accused of sleeping around to advance her career. Anonymous threats made her feel so unsafe that she eventually moved to the UK.
https://www.amnesty.org.au/japans-sexism-problem-runs-deep/
yuiyoshida
(41,860 posts)We prefer the term ASIANS or Asia now.
SharonClark
(10,014 posts)underpants
(182,876 posts)Yikes.
luvs2sing
(2,220 posts)and spend an afternoon with introverted me and my never-has-an-unexpressed-thought Hubster.
Seriously..what a frickin jerk!
Mike 03
(16,616 posts)Something out of a 70s sitcom, perhaps?
Haven't heard that one in decades.
moreland01
(742 posts)Is this The Onion?
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Jedi Guy
(3,247 posts)Miguelito Loveless
(4,473 posts)It is a bit hard sometimes, when so many people wish you dead every day. After a while...
Nitram
(22,869 posts)Paladin
(28,272 posts)LittleGirl
(8,291 posts)Why is that man there?
No need to answer. Just fuming.
FSogol
(45,525 posts)RainCaster
(10,914 posts)I spent years working for a Japanese firm, and conservative doesn't even begin to describe it. I could see it on the commute trains every day, and in the offices too. After hours, at the bars. I miss many things about that job, but not the male dominance.
NHvet
(240 posts)for a few years some 40 yrs ago, seems that the roles for men and women in Japan hasn't evolved at all in the years that have passed.
Miigwech
(3,741 posts)Greybnk48
(10,176 posts)never watched a Trump marathon bloviation, or watched the right wingmen on FOX/OAN/NEWSMAX.
Want to bet one or more of the women on his committee are coming up with ideas that are better than his?
oldsoftie
(12,595 posts)McKim
(2,412 posts)This is why I have never wanted to visit Japan! It is disgusting. A lot of young Japanese women have come to the US to marry better and get away from that society where marriage means lonely servitude.
oldsoftie
(12,595 posts)I'm glad everyone at the meeting laughed too
Hope nobody here ever goes to a comedy club
Save the furor for people who actually mean harm
GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)They came to Florida and after the meeting we took them to eat. And drink, man did they drink.
Anyway there were 3 Tables and seating was strictly by rank. My leader at the time was a female and the translator suggested on the side that she should not sit at the head table even though I was. I of course rejected the request out of hand. Deal fell apart. Dont regret it a bit.
barbtries
(28,811 posts)who was a VP, was at a meeting with a Japanese firm. One of the men was clearly disturbed that she was part of the meeting. I don't recall the details, but he did not want her there, and the only reason was that she was a woman.
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)DinahMoeHum
(21,807 posts). . .courtesy of Dave Zirin, sports editor at The Nation magazine and host of the weekly Edge of Sports podcast.
https://audioboom.com/channel/edge-of-sports
barbtries
(28,811 posts)that women are people. at 83 years old it's a good bet he never will.
Efilroft Sul
(3,581 posts)sakabatou
(42,174 posts)VarryOn
(2,343 posts)Last edited Thu Feb 4, 2021, 12:56 AM - Edit history (2)
The blowhard, smartest-person-in-the-room will always be a man. And they generally love the sound of their own voice, usually play golf, will always top anything you ever did, wont hesitate to correct someone, and totally ignore it's past time for the meeting to be over.
I bet you anything Mr. Mori is the same son-of-a-bitch, except he cheered for the wrong team in WWII.