02/13/24 - See? Nobody likes old women.
A blogger compiles various comments about bride prices:
“It’s fine. There’s no problem if nobody gets married.”
“Do you have to have a son? If your son has a good diploma and makes a normal wage, then how would he ever meet someone who doesn’t want bride price?”
“Borrow money for your bride price, then pay it back with joint income, isn’t that just advancing your wife’s wages? You’re getting a cheap deal on a woman to take care of your whole family. What kind of job doesn’t pay at least this much? And you have to have a kid too, and there are some families who insist on having a son.”
“It’s not a problem of bride price. If people demanding high bride prices are still getting married, that means there’s no enough supply for the amount of demand. The core of the issue is that there isn’t enough women in rural areas.”
“This is what you get for sexism.”
“You talking like men used to be able to marry whoever they want. Survival of the fittest is the rule of nature.”
“I support men marrying men. You don’t have to worry about bride price, and it solves the gender imbalance, so it’s two birds with one stone.”
The blogger writes, “Give up your fantasies. These gold diggers will never empathise with poor people. In their eyes, poor men don’t deserve to get married or have children.”
His comment section says, “They claim to be adamantly single, but every time the topic of bride prices come up, just look at how much discussion there is and you can tell they all want to be good little housewives.”
“Look at how mad they are in these screenshots lol. Every time someone mentions bride price being too high, they jump out and scream a bunch of bullshit about how bride price isn’t high at all, don’t complain if you can’t afford it, think about whether it’s your own fault~”
“Just so you know, if you talk about how something isn’t worth the price it’s being sold for, it’s usually the merchant that gets the most mad.”
A tiktok video of a baby who clearly prefers their youngest sister:
Comments say, “See? Nobody likes old women.”
“Kids are really sensitive to age, they’re scared of older kids.”
“In the course of growing up, a man’s bodily reactions are the most honest.”
“What do you guys think about really ugly people having kids? We all know that ugly genes are particularly stubborn. They’re 90% likely to be passed down. If the kid ends up super ugly too, wouldn’t they be upset about it?
I guess I’ve been feeling a lot of body anxiety lately, because I really am super fugly. I’m not even average-looking. I’m ugly even with makeup. Does anyone have any idea how hurtful this is to be a girl? Growing up, my mom’s constantly told me I’m ugly. My mom said that if I was pretty, then everyone in the world would count as pretty. I’ve never been praised by anyone for my looks, and no boy’s ever had a crush on me. There’s nothing worth praising on me from head to toe. Every time I see a pretty girl, I always fantasise about how great it would be if I could get just a little prettier. I feel like I’ve collected all the ugly genes in the world. I can’t get any sense of confidence, I’m afraid to look in people’s eyes. I’m worried about grossing other people out.
I look so awful that I’m never going to get married or have children. I don’t want to have an ugly baby. I don’t think the baby would want to be born ugly too.”
Comments say, “Not just ugly people. Short people, people with bad figures, stupid people, genetic diseases, poor people, none of them should have kids. You’re not just screwing over your kid, you’re screwing over yourself.”
“Focus on making money so you can get plastic surgery. Your kid can get plastic surgery once they grow up too. Look how many kappas there are on the internet [the Japanese folklore creature, a common internet slang for ugly men]. It’s nothing to stress over.”
“At the very least, people with unstable emotions (like me) shouldn’t have kids.”
“Why do I say all prosecutors and judges are ruthless?
I’ve met a suspect before at a Beijing jail. He tells me that he’s been in jail for three years, and saw a lot of people who were obviously innocent and still ruled guilty.
He said that once you’re arrested, once the prosecution process has started, it’s almost impossible to get free again. If you can’t be sentenced on this charge, they’ll switch a charge. If you can’t be sentenced for five years, they’ll try for three years. They’ll pull whatever strings they have to to make you confess, and stick you with a lighter charge, and an innocent man becomes guilty.
According to him, if the police think someone is guilty to start with, even if they discover evidence that means he’s obviously innocent, if the prosecutor has signed an arrest warrant, then the police will go ahead and arrest him and move him to the prosecutor anyways, because it’s hard to drop the case as the police. And the person in charge of prosecuting you is the person signed your arrest warrant, so there’s no way they wouldn’t bring it to court, or else they’d just be embarrassing themselves. When the judge sees the case and sees that the defendant is innocent, they also know that if they acquit him, they’ll be offending both the police and the prosecutor, and they have to write a report about it to their boss, and go through the political commissar before they can get an innocent ruling. Nobody wants to go through all that trouble. So if they’re innocent, you just give them the lightest sentence you can, maybe even just probation.
This way, most defendants are satisfied and they won’t appeal it.
Why are judges ruthless? Because they have to deal with murderers and robbers and scammers everyday. They’ve seen too much shit, just like doctors.
Some people have questioned whether acquittals have to go through the political commissar, but that’s just a misunderstanding. I’m saying that if someone is acquitted, it’ll involve judge/prosecutor/police relations and it’ll involve paying him compensation, so the judge can’t decide it unilaterally. They need to report to their boss, and their boss will call a meeting and give directions, and the court will carry it out.
Judges go decades in their career without ever seeing an acquittal for a state prosecuted case.
There’s probably less than 0.001% acquittal rate for state-prosecuted cases.”
Comments say, “The judge says they’re guilty. Your friend in jail says they’re innocent. Who should I believe, hm.”
“How can you say shit like this while calling yourself a lawyer?”
“Are you serious with this blog?”
“It means your suspect is just a suspect, just ignore him. If he knows this much, what do we need lawyers and prosecutors and judges for?”
A compilation of reverse keeping-up-with-the-Jones’s:
“It costs 2 RMB to take a shower at my school, and my roommate ran into a bug in the machine and it only charged her 50 cents. Everyone in my dorm room is so jealous they’re about to go mad.”
“I bought a crate of persimmons for 17.56 RMB, and my roommate got the same thing for just 16.21 RMB. At that moment, I could feel my heart break.”
“People who are scared to look at their bank account balance are salarymen. The people who are scared to look at their grades are students. The people afraid to look at both are college students.”
“Got a frosted glass mug for 10.88 RMB, and my roommate bought a similar one (different brand) for just two bucks. I’ve been upset about it for two months now.”
“While getting water at school, I found the machine was broken and it stopped charging money for water, so I rushed to get my roommates to get water and we filled up four giant buckets. I was working a lot harder than I’ve ever worked on an assignment.”
“Got bluetooth headphones for 9.60 RMB, and the whole dorm was begging me for a link. My bunkmate was like, “You can totally pretend these are single use.””
“There was one shower space that you could use without swiping your card, and I took advantage of it for two months with my roommates, and some bitch reported it and they fixed it.”
“Before college: isn’t Temu filled with knock offs?
After college: Temu is the best <3”
“Me: How much is your lunch?
Friend: 12.8. How about you?
Me: (delighted) 11.9~”
“I spent 120 RMB on an 80% new secondhand washing machine from an upperclassman in my freshman year, used it for four years, and then sold it for 150 RMB when I graduated.”
“Showing off in high school: these shoes are 500 RMB.
Showing off in uni: This box of tissues was free.”
”My roommate’s boyfriend bought a package of 24 slices of bread for a buck, and with his coupon, it ended up turning out that the store owed him a buck. Our whole dorm was on our knees, begging him to open a class.”
“The scariness that horror novels bring me can’t ever match up to a female-focused short story collection. Like, all that ever happens in horror novels is just someone’s eyes explode, or a random doll appears on someone’s bed or some shit.
But my female-focused short story has a story about a carefully raised little kid who went back to his hometown with his parents, and in the blink of an eye, an evil old man in the village grabbed him by the neck and shoved him into the outhouse to force him to eat shit. It even went into detail about how there was chilli peppers sprinkled on the shit, to the point that after the kid went back to the big city, he’d freak out every time he had chilli peppers, and his parents had a mental breakdown too.
There was another story about a girl with autism, who would raised with love and care by her grandpa. He treated her like a real princess. And after he passed away, she was married off, had a kid and wasn’t allowed to ever have contact with her kid. And in the end, she just wandered up and down the railroad with bare feet, lost and confused, having lost her mind.”
Comments say, “The last one was too conservative. Intellectually impaired women in my village gets raped all the time, especially by old men.”
“Honestly, if you have a kid who’s incapable of taking care of themselves, then if you know you’re about to die, you might as well take them with you. You never know if their life will become worse than death.”
“I’m from a rural village too, and there was a super poor guy there who would never have been able to afford a wife. And he picked up a retarded woman from god knows where and had three kids with her. I used to see this woman all the time when I was a little kid, and she’s always dirty and mangy and acting crazy and never talked. Last year, I ran into this guy walking around with this woman, and to my surprise, she’s all cleaned up and neat now. It’s like she’s a different person! And then my mom told me that the last retarded woman ran away, and this is a new woman that he’d picked up from somewhere that he’s living with now. Make me feel really bad.”