double standard

The Bangladeshi father of a twenty-two year old female TV personality is wanted for cheating to get money for unneeded health support.  He has run away to his home country, and his daughter has written on her blog that she hopes he will come back to Japan, and that she was sorry for "those who were offended by her father's behavior".

I wasn't really interested in this news until my own father told me what he thought about the reaction of the Japanese public.

A couple of years ago, a successful comedian was criticized when it turned out that his mother had been getting public assistance.  I don't remember well about the incident but I think part of the criticism was that the mother had asked for "unneeded public assistance".

There are some similarities between the two cases.  They were both about parents.  But the comedian ended up being criticized while the female TV personality ended up being sympathized (she has practically become a beautiful heroin who had become a model to support her horrible father and her poor family).  Was it because she had been giving money to her father?  Was it such a horrible thing that the comedian hadn't sent enough money to his mother?  Maybe he had.  But since when did children become parents?



Anyway, today is Tanabata -- the only day of the year when the prince and princess separated by the milky way meet each other.  If you make a wish, it's supposed to come true!