I recently read an article that caused me to pause and really reflect on the subject of gender roles in the workplace.

The article reported on a woman who had made some very controversial comments about men who earn less than her. She was quoted as saying that these men were “garbage” and that she felt superior to them.

This woman is certainly not alone in her beliefs, as I have heard similar sentiments from other women in my life.

This statement made me think about the societal expectations placed upon women and men in the workplace.

Specifically, I began to consider the idea that women are expected to take a more passive role in the workplace, while men should be the primary earners. This notion has been around for quite some time, and it has had a detrimental effect on the way that women are perceived and treated in the workplace.

First and foremost, women are often seen as the “lesser” gender in the workplace.

Women are expected to take a backseat role, while men take the lead. Women are expected to stay in the background and do whatever is necessary to support their male counterparts. This can lead to women feeling like they are not valued, or worse, like they are disposable.

This is especially true when it comes to wages. Women are often paid less than their male counterparts, even when they are doing the same job. This inequality can lead to resentment and a feeling of inferiority.

The woman’s comment about men who earn less than her was particularly concerning because it perpetuates this idea that women are superior to men. It implies that women should not be expected to “settle” for less than what they are worth, and that men should not be given preferential treatment because of their gender.

This attitude is counter-productive and does nothing to promote gender equality in the workplace.

The reality is that men and women should be treated as equals in the workplace. Men and women should be paid the same for the same amount of work. Women should not be expected to take a backseat role, and men should not be seen as the primary earners. This attitude is damaging to both genders and only further perpetuates the gender inequality that exists in the workplace.

It is important to remember that everyone has value, regardless of their gender or income level. No one should be looked down upon because of their income level or gender. Everyone deserves respect and to be treated with dignity. This is especially true in the workplace, where everyone should have the same opportunities to succeed, regardless of their gender.

It is my hope that, in time, society will come to see that women are just as capable and valuable as men in the workplace. Women should not be judged based on their income level, and men should not be expected to take a primary role in the workplace.

Everyone should be respected and given the same opportunities to succeed, regardless of their gender. Only then will we begin to see true gender equality in the workplace.

Growing up, I was always fascinated by my grandfather’s stories of his younger years. He happened to be born in the early 1930s and lived through the Japanese Occupation of Singapore during World War II, which was a tumultuous period in the history of Singapore.

Reminded of the war whenever he hears the Total Defence Day sirens

I remember one day, when I was a young boy, the war warning sirens went off. I was too young to understand the gravity of the situation, but my grandfather had a look of dread on his face. He said that the sound of the sirens reminded him of his life during the Japanese Occupation of Singapore.

My grandfather told me tales of how he and his family were forced to flee their home and take refuge in the jungle as the Japanese forces invaded and occupied Singapore. He remembered the fear of not knowing what would happen next, the struggle to survive in the jungle, and the sorrow of losing so many friends and family members.

He also told me about the harsh conditions of the Japanese Occupation. He remembered the severe food shortages, the lack of proper medical care, and the oppressive rule of the Japanese forces. He said that during this time, he and his family were living in constant fear of the unknown, not knowing when the next attack or massacre would happen.

Shared that the locals were brave and united in those times

My grandfather also spoke of the bravery of the people of Singapore during the occupation. He remembered how the locals would band together and help each other in times of need, and how they would take risks to protect their fellow citizens. He told me of how the people of Singapore would often take part in acts of resistance against the Japanese forces, such as smuggling food and weapons to help the British forces fighting back.

These stories of my grandfather’s life during the Japanese Occupation of Singapore have stayed with me ever since. Even though I was too young to understand the severity of the situation, his stories gave me a glimpse into the courage and strength of the people of Singapore during that difficult period.

Whenever the war warning sirens go off, I can’t help but remember my grandfather’s stories. It serves as a reminder of the resilience of the people of Singapore, and the strength of human spirit in the face of adversity.

Growing up, I was always aware of the inequality of the world.

I had friends who were from affluent backgrounds and friends who were from average households. It didn’t take me long to realize that those with more resources had much better access to opportunities than those who had less.

I was never envious of the wealth, but rather of the opportunities that came with it.

I always felt like I was at a disadvantage, especially when it came to getting a job. I didn’t have any special skills or qualifications, and I wasn’t particularly good at anything either.

My family wasn’t well-off, and my mother had to work two jobs to make ends meet. In school, I was an average student at best and I wasn’t sure what my future held.

As I looked at my best friend, I couldn’t believe how lucky he was. His mother had just managed to get him a job at a renowned local bank, despite the fact that he could barely spell basic English. I knew that there were many more qualified candidates who were just as qualified and had a better command of the language than him, but who were overlooked because of their lack of connections.

The world is not fair.

I had known my friend since we were in poly, and I’d seen firsthand how hard he worked for his grades but always ended with nothing but disappointment.

In every group friends there is always a dumb one.

Meanwhile, my friend’s mother was able to pull some strings and get him the job he wanted, despite his limited English skills. While I was happy for him, I couldn’t help but feel a little envious and resentful.

It seemed unfair that someone with an impressive CV and a great academic record was overlooked in favour of someone who couldn’t even spell basic English. But what made it worse was the fact that the person who was chosen was someone who was connected to the right people.

It made me realize how unfair the world can be. It doesn’t matter how hard you work or how qualified you are if you don’t have the “right” connections.

I couldn’t help but think about how many other people were in a similar situation. How many people with impressive resumes and great qualifications were overlooked in favour of those with the right connections? How many people lost out on the chance to pursue their dreams because of their lack of connections?

It made me sad to think about, but it also made me angry. It made me angry that the world is so unfair. It made me angry that the ones who succeed are often the ones with the right connections, not the ones who are most qualified.

It’s easy to get discouraged when you see something like this happening. It can make you feel like you’re not good enough and that no matter how hard you work, you’ll never make it.

But I want to encourage everyone out there to keep going, because eventually, hard work and dedication will pay off.

My friend, was always a very ambitious person. He always had grand ideas about how to make money and get rich quickly.

As such, he decided to open three shops at once. He opened a shoe store, a coffee shop, and a bakery.

I supported him and even helped him to be free labour when he needed

I was really impressed with his ambition and I thought that he had a good chance at succeeding. I supported him in every way I could, from helping him with the paperwork to offering advice on how to manage the three stores and also offering him labour when he needed manpower.

Unfortunately, he was not able to manage the three stores properly. He was so focused on getting them opened that he neglected the important task of actually managing them.

After he opened all three stores, he began to hang out with other friends who were detrimental to him to the point that he did not have any time to focus on the important tasks such as marketing the stores, hiring staff, and managing the finances.

The stores were not properly stocked and he was not able to attract enough customers. The coffee shop and bakery were not able to make enough money to pay the rent and they both eventually closed down.

The shoe store was the last to go, but it too eventually closed as he did not have enough money to pay the bills.

I was really disappointed in him. I had genuinely thought that he had a good chance at succeeding, but his lack of proper management had led to the failure of all three stores. I tried to talk to him about it, but he was too embarrassed to talk about it.

Felt sad that he failed in his business

My friend was really devastated by the failure of the stores. He was someone with such a high ego and does not take advice well and now that all his stores had failed, he felt so embarrassed that he refused to talk to anyone.

He eventually MIA-ed from our lives.

I was really sad to see my friend go. He had so much potential and I had really believed that he could have succeeded if he had managed the stores properly.

It was a really hard lesson for my friend to learn, but it was a valuable one.

I hope that he has learned from his mistake and that he will be more cautious in the future when it comes to taking on such ambitious projects.

It had been six months since my girlfriend and I had moved in together and we were finally starting to get settled.

We had a great apartment and were starting to make it our own, but there was one problem that kept coming up: credit cards.

She applied for a credit card a few months ago, but her application was rejected due to her lack of credit history. She had never owned a credit card before and was ineligible to apply.

This was a major problem for us because we needed a way to pay for everyday expenses and larger purchases.

That’s when she had an idea.

What if I applied for a credit card in my name? I had a good credit score and I was confident I would be approved.

So, I applied for a card and it was approved. Now, I had a credit card in my name that I could use to pay for things, but I had to make sure she was able to use it as well. I decided to make her an authorized user on my card, which meant she would be able to use it as if it were her own.

I gave her the credit card and told her to use it. She was hesitant at first, but I assured her that since the card was in my name, I would be responsible for any charges she made. I also made sure to set up an automated payment for the card so that it was always paid on time.

This is where the situation happened

She starts swiping the card to buy stuff that has little to no use, it was like she is using it for the sake of using it. Buying absolute garbage.

She bought so much makeup, a new phone a laptop and a necklace until the card’s limit EXPLODED through the roof.

I then confront her about it, she says “I am not responsible for the charges, that’s what you said right?”

I feel like after knowing her for so long this is the first time I really know her. She tries to act dumb but no one is that dumb.

COME ON!

I demanded for her to payback but she did not want to and I kicked her out of the apartment and end it right there.

I called the bank and reported that the charges were fraudulent and I only managed get some of the money back. Oh well, better than nothing.

When I married my husband, I was aware that I was not just marrying him but also his mother, and I was willing to accept her as part of the deal.

Little did I know that it was going to be the biggest challenge I had ever faced in my life.

My mother-in-law is a classic example of a cheapskate. She doesn’t even splurge on herself, let alone us. She is always looking for ways to save money, no matter how ridiculous or impractical they are.

For example, she recently decided to turn off the air conditioner in the house in order to save electricity. This was despite me giving her extra money to pay for it.

Naturally, we argued about it and she refused to budge.

The problem is that it gets really hot. Without air conditioning, the house becomes unbearably hot and humid, making it impossible to sleep or do anything else. I tried to explain to her that she was making us all miserable, but she still refused to turn it back on.

The heat also affects our health, as we all start to get sick from the heat and humidity. It’s not just us though, as our pets start to suffer too.

The situation has become so bad that it has caused huge arguments between us and my husband’s mother. We have demanded that she move somewhere else, but she refuses to leave.

At this point, I’m at my wit’s end. I don’t know what else to do and I’m feeling helpless. I’m tired of arguing with her and getting nowhere. I just want her to understand how much her cheapness is affecting us all.

I’m sure most of you can relate to this situation. It’s an all-too-common problem that many families face when dealing with a cheapskate mother-in-law. The only way to deal with it is to find a way to make her understand that her cheapness is causing more harm than good.

In our case, we have decided that the best solution is to move her mother somewhere else. This way, she will be able to live in a place where she can be comfortable and afford to turn on the air conditioner.

It’s not an ideal solution, but it’s the best we can come up with to end this situation. I hope that by doing this, we can finally put an end to the arguments and get some peace and quiet.

In the end, it all boils down to understanding and compromise. It’s important to remember that no matter how much we disagree with our mother-in-law’s cheapness, we still have to respect her and find a way to make it work. It might not be easy, but it’s the only way to make this situation better.

My boyfriend (24 M) invites his friends over to MY home(24 F) and makes me feel bad.

The title says it all, it is MY unit that my parents have rented FOR me. He is basically living here rent free and contributes just a little bit.

No I am not okay with this and has communicated this to him multiple times. He has this friend that he invites over and that friend basically just crashes over in my home, when I was gone on holiday and I just came back few days ago.

He started saying “you are so isolated you never have anyone over, I am a sociable person and like having people over”

I was like I’m sorry but this is MY apartment? He started trying to make me feel bad and saying I don’t even invite any of my friends over and said I’m isolated, what is wrong with me wanting my own personal space?

My house is my safe space ISN’T it? Worst part is, he doesn’t even pay rent so I don’t even know where the entitlement is coming from.

Him and his friend do nothing but smoke cigarettes and drink at my house and he has the audacity to say I’m a negative person and this is no big deal.

I tried kicking him out when I came back but he said he doesn’t have a place to go to atm and I should have told him earlier.

I want to call the police but there’s just so much at stake and with the police it’s a long process so idk.

My 26F husband 27M doesn’t like physical touch/hugs anymore

My 26F husband 27M and I have been married for 4 years, together for 8. When we first started dating and before we got married I was always very affectionate with hugs, cuddling and kisses. This was something he always reciprocated and also initiated himself too.

We used to cuddle when we slept (something I’ve always enjoyed and really wanted in a relationship) a few years in he told me he prefers not to cuddle when we sleep, I asked if we could cuddle before we fall asleep instead, he agreed.

Next he says it’s too much, he wants and needs his personal space. It gets to the point where I have a deal that we cuddle in bed for at least 2 minutes twice a week. That dwindled down to once every two weeks, me begging (and trying to joke about it so it doesn’t become a serious argument)

Now that “deal” is completely gone. We rarely cuddle in bed, we’ll get close when we’re watching something on our phones or talking, but he will tell me to back off his side of the bed if he thinks I’m too close.

Again always citing personal space. Tonight I tried to put my arm over his chest for a hug while we were chatting and he blocked me. So I asked if I could give him a hug, he said no in a playful way.

I asked again in a cute playful tone and pouted but he refused again and dropped the playful tone, saying he needed personal space, after he’d been resting his head on my pillow (that’s how close we’re laying) . This made me drop my playful tone and I said, okay then and turned over to sleep.

He of course picked up my tone and asked what was wrong, why I was upset. I told him he knows that it upsets me when he doesn’t want to hug or cuddle anymore. It upsets me even more because I don’t know how to solve this issue when we both have very different mindsets about physical contact/touch.

No other part of our relationship has a disagreement like this that feels like it’s at an impasse. I really really love him, he’s my best friend and I love spending everyday with him and building our life together. But whenever this comes up again I just don’t know what to do.

I feel as if he doesn’t like my touch, but he still want to get intimate with me in bed. He’ll hold my hand on the couch, let me rest my head on him sometimes but when we get to bed this switch changes. I don’t want him to feel uncomfortable so I feel like I should default to his preferences and accept that our love languages are not the same?

I (31M) just got dumped by my 3 month GF(30F), Her reason: She has only known toxic relationships and I am too good of a person. What the F does that mean?

She had only known toxic relationships where she was the victim part, now we have a completely healthy relationship and she said she couldn’t handle it

Myself having little experience in toxic dynamics, what could she possibly be feeling?

I am not thinking on pursuing any longer but would appreciate some insight from people who have had these kind of problems so I can understand a bit better what is going on in her head. Did she get bored? afraid of commitment? or else?

Netizens’ comments

1. Well, it could be a goofy excuse because she just isn’t interested anymore. But it could also be that her self esteem is trash and she doesn’t think she deserves you. Or that some part of her know she will self destruct (cheat, whatever) and she sees you as too good of a person to do that to. Could be a lot of things really. Hard to say.
2. It’s possible that she finds it difficult to react to you in healthy ways. When you’ve been in toxic relationships, every normal fight sparks the fight of flight response too. And you start reacting in really unhealthy and toxic ways yourself. Also, being treated well doesn’t feel safe as it’s unknown.
   She needs therapy, not a relationship
3. She is possibly realizing that she doesn’t know how to be in a healthy relationship. Hopefully she takes that and goes to therapy to heal herself.
4. At the end of the day it doesn’t really matter because ultimately it means that she can’t/isn’t willing to put in the same amount of effort/ love that you are. So honestly it’s good that she ended it because otherwise you’d be putting a lot of time in effort into someone who won’t reciprocate it. Find someone who will.
5. It means you dodged a bullet. Mourn the loss of what you thought could have been and move on. Hope you find someone who appreciates all your goodness.

My (M27) GF (F27) was excited when talking about her friend’s hookup huge D
So,

For how silly and funny this sounds like, let me understand if I’m over reacting or not.

My (M27) GF (F27) was telling me about her friend’s hookup and when she started going down into the details I stated that I was not very interested in hearing the rest of the story

However she went on and apparently mentioned that this guy has a huge heavy weapon down there and that when she will meet him ( if the story between him and the friend goes on ) she can’t help but looking down on him with this face :O because now she know THAT detail.

Now, to me seems a little bit weird that my GF states all excited that that guy has a big D and she already knows that she will look down at him because she knows that but telling that to me was a little bit passing the line

I told her that I found that very very unpleasant to hear and disrespectful and she started crying saying that she was silly, she didn’t mean that, she didn’t mean to denigrate me bla bla bla

Honestly my dimensions are average, nothing to go crazy for. We have been together 9 months, she invested a lot into the relationship, she spent for me crazy money and time and she knows since the first day how my little friend does look like.

If it doesn’t satisfy her.. just leave. Why making those comments

I asked her to leave my place since I wanted some time alone

Am I honestly over reacting?

Netizens’ comments

1. Nah bro that’s a weird move on her part. I think you feel weird because that’s how she wanted you to feel. There are too many fish in the sea to be staying with a fish that is disrespectful/ inconsiderate of your feeling.
2. She made the comments because she wants a bigger D.
3. Yeah, a little bit. I mean he can’t help that he’s packing a bazooka just like you can’t help that you’re packing a crayon