<story><title>Japanese toilet industry agrees to standardize complex bidet controls</title><url>http://www.theverge.com/2017/1/17/14306464/japanese-toilet-control-icons-meaning-standard</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>antihero</author><text>Aww the Jainism tenets looked great until they got to chastity. Why do so many religions and movements associate sex with sin? It is a beautiful, wonderful thing.</text></item><item><author>Alexqw85</author><text>I agree with you. One culture&amp;#x27;s horrifying misuse of a symbol should not censor it for all and forever.&lt;p&gt;My roommate for the first two years of college was raised as a Jain[1], and a swastika with four dots is an important symbol for them. He liked to sketch, anything and everything, but also this swastika.&lt;p&gt;As his art was all over our walls, the expressions people had when they entered our dorm room for the first time were priceless. Sometimes it took some real explaining to convince them that I&amp;#x27;m not a Nazi, and it was my Indian roommate who was drawing them and not me. ;-)&lt;p&gt;Beautiful artwork though.&lt;p&gt;---Alex&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Jainism&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Jainism&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>bjackman</author><text>&amp;gt; The government has recommended removing the Buddhist manji symbol from maps aimed at foreigners, for example, for fear of unintended associations with the Nazi swastika.&lt;p&gt;Does anyone else think this is a shame? When I&amp;#x27;ve been to Asia and seen &amp;quot;swastikas&amp;quot; everywhere I&amp;#x27;ve found it in a way joyful. The hate symbol has no power here, I thought; it&amp;#x27;s a positive thing. Why should one culture change their own iconography just because it was perverted in a different culture? It seems like a mild example of self-inflicted cultural imperialism.&lt;p&gt;Maybe I&amp;#x27;m just being very philosophically naïve.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rictic</author><text>Before good birth control, extramarital sex meant single mothers. And if it&amp;#x27;s hard to be a single mom today, imagine being a single mom in a world where there were a fraction of the job opportunities outside the home for a woman.</text></comment>
<story><title>Japanese toilet industry agrees to standardize complex bidet controls</title><url>http://www.theverge.com/2017/1/17/14306464/japanese-toilet-control-icons-meaning-standard</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>antihero</author><text>Aww the Jainism tenets looked great until they got to chastity. Why do so many religions and movements associate sex with sin? It is a beautiful, wonderful thing.</text></item><item><author>Alexqw85</author><text>I agree with you. One culture&amp;#x27;s horrifying misuse of a symbol should not censor it for all and forever.&lt;p&gt;My roommate for the first two years of college was raised as a Jain[1], and a swastika with four dots is an important symbol for them. He liked to sketch, anything and everything, but also this swastika.&lt;p&gt;As his art was all over our walls, the expressions people had when they entered our dorm room for the first time were priceless. Sometimes it took some real explaining to convince them that I&amp;#x27;m not a Nazi, and it was my Indian roommate who was drawing them and not me. ;-)&lt;p&gt;Beautiful artwork though.&lt;p&gt;---Alex&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Jainism&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Jainism&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>bjackman</author><text>&amp;gt; The government has recommended removing the Buddhist manji symbol from maps aimed at foreigners, for example, for fear of unintended associations with the Nazi swastika.&lt;p&gt;Does anyone else think this is a shame? When I&amp;#x27;ve been to Asia and seen &amp;quot;swastikas&amp;quot; everywhere I&amp;#x27;ve found it in a way joyful. The hate symbol has no power here, I thought; it&amp;#x27;s a positive thing. Why should one culture change their own iconography just because it was perverted in a different culture? It seems like a mild example of self-inflicted cultural imperialism.&lt;p&gt;Maybe I&amp;#x27;m just being very philosophically naïve.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stelonix</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s not exactly with sin, but sexual activity is correlated with the power of creation. So &amp;quot;misusing&amp;quot; a &amp;quot;big bang&amp;quot; is often painted as something &amp;quot;bad&amp;quot;, be it a sin or simply considered an act of layman&amp;#x27;s ignorance.</text></comment>