An author writes, “Just went to my friend’s house, where she’s got three kids who were running around and playing the whole time. My friend was constantly sweeping, from when we showed up to when we left after dinner. This full-time mom must have swept the floor four times. Every day, she has to wash everyone’s clothes, once by hand, and once by machine, for fear that it’s not clean enough. She takes the kids to school and picks them up, and makes 6 people’s worth of food, and completes all their school work that requires parental participation. She’s not educated herself, and often doesn’t understand the homework and has to get the help of someone who does.
Another fellow guest told me that her hands were cracked open. I took her hand and looked closely and yeah, her skin was cracked to hell and back, and this was in the middle of summer in a city!
When I got home, I ordered half a year’s worth of hand cream online for her, and that made her almost cry. I think, for Mother’s Day, the best gift is probably for someone to take over the kids and housework for a day, so she can take a day off for herself.”
Comments ask, “Why wash clothes by hand? She’s kinda heaping suffering onto herself.”
“God, this is suffocating. Who the hell wants kids?”
“This isn’t even the end. When all three of her kids start having kids, she’ll be on the hook for them too.”
A tiktok video of a little girl refusing to eat dinner, with the mother asking, “What do I do when she won’t eat, even when I’m spoon-feeding her?”
Comments say, “Why is this kid so annoying? I honestly hate her from the bottom of my heart.”
“This is just her parents spoiling her too much. Stop giving her snacks and make her skip two meals, and see if she’ll eat then or not.”
“Why does your daughter look like an abstract painting?”
Askreddit question, “If western medicine is so advanced, why would some people say that western medicine only treats the symptoms and not the cause?”
The top reply is, “Just had a 9 month old baby in my hospital with third degree burns over 20% of his body. After he regained consciousness, I talked with the family about the treatment plan, including how to deal with his scars. His family was absolutely shocked. Why would western medicine leave scars? They claimed that their traditional medicine doctor had seen photos and promised to treat the boy with zero scarring. Wouldn’t listen to a word I said. Today, they just left the hospital to fly home. I’m so worried about this little baby’s outcome.”
Comments say, “There are too many people scamming under the guise of traditional medicine.”
“My kid got a burn on his leg and arm too. It was pretty severe. Western doctors treated him until the swelling went down, for about a week. Then we went to a Chinese medicine doctor for a week, got some medicine, took it home, and used it for a month maybe? Then put some Kelo Cote scar gel on, and took him for his check up at the state hospital. The doctors were totally shocked that he had recovered so quickly without any scar tissue. The burnt area was just a little white.”
“There’s a Chinese doctor in my hometown who claims he can resurrect dead people with some secret formulas.”
“Yesterday, I got home from work and immediately hurried to make dinner, and found the breakfast burritos I’d made that day in the trashcan. Do you know that after mommy had your brother and you, I haven’t had a single good night’s sleep? My biological clock wakes me up every morning, sometimes at 4-5 am. And I just lay awake at night, for fear that I’d miss breakfast time. Every day I make something new. I make rice balls, and you want noodles. I make noodles, and you want rice. I get so mad that I beat you, but this is hurting me more than it hurts you. Your dad keeps saying that I beat you too much, like I want to kill you. I cried. I’ve done so much for this family. My white hairs and my health problems are all telling me I’ve exhausted myself. Sometimes, I just want to stop caring. Maybe you’ll only know once you’re a parent yourself that what you threw away was your mother’s heart.”
Comments say, “Honestly, I remember being a kid. I bought my breakfast all through primary and middle school. There’s all kinds of bread and lo mein and burritos and rice noodles and soup and porridge for just a buck. Just give your kid 10 bucks and let them figure out for themselves what you want to eat. I’m 169cm and got nearly full marks for my PE lessons in middle school.”
“If your kid doesn’t like it, stop making it. Give them a couple bucks and have them buy breakfast, so they can get what they want. If they get a bad stomach, take them to the hospital.”
”Even if you don’t care how much effort someone else went to make your food, at least don’t waste perfectly good food. If you don’t like it, say so, tell your mom to stop making it. Don’t throw food away in the trash. That hurts my heart. My daughter’s a picky eater too, and I never force anything to her. But I won’t throw away the food she rejects either. I’ll put it in the box and feed the birds or pack it up for homeless people. Food is precious. Why would you throw it in the trash?”
Sina Trending Topics official weibo is covering the hashtag #how much are you spending for 520? 520 is a pun for “I love you” in Chinese, and something of a modern day Chinese Valentine’s Day. This is a holiday about love and romance and flowers and chocolates and cards. Both men and women give each other gifts on this day to express love or friendship. How much are you spending this year for 520? Attached is a poll of amounts from, “Hand making gifts, expenses zero.” to “between 520 RMB to 1000 RMB.”
Comments say, “I’m single, so I’m ordering extra dinner for myself. Probably an extra expense of about 13 RMB.”
“A movie ticket, a cup of coffee, for myself.”
“Love is about heart, not theatrics. All this Valentine’s Day crap is just about showing off.”
A factory owner has gone viral for refusing to hire people with tattoos. She’s posted a video in defense of her actions, saying, “My video’s got over 10 million views. I’m totally blown away. Before, I said that no matter where you’re tattooed, we’re not taking you. Young man, your tattoo has ended your future prospects. I don’t think anything I said was wrong. But now there are people calling me with threats, being all like what the hell’s wrong with tattoos? For young people that I don’t like, whose behaviour don’t fit my standards, I’ll tell them off as much as I like.”
Comments say, “Yeah, people are welcome to get tattoos, and she’s welcome to not hire them.”
“If you don’t like it, open your own factory and only hire tattooed people.”
“I’ve got tattoos, and my small business also doesn’t hire people with tattoos.”
“I’ve dated five men, and found a pattern. Men with stable jobs all look ugly. Or at least below average. But unemployed men always look good and fashionable. I analysed it in more details and figured out that men with stable jobs are all Bachelor’s Degree or Master’s. Men without stable jobs are veterans or community college grads. So I’m trying to figure out, is there a link between degree of education and physical appearance?”
Comments say, “I think it might be because people who are handsome and also have a stable job aren’t in the dating market anymore.”
“Yeah, good candidates don’t date around for long.”
“That’s quite a lot of analysis for such a small sample size.”
“I’ve seen someone say before that they can concentrate on both their career and childrearing. Listen to my advice, most average women really can’t handle both. The reason Liang Anqi (Macau billionaire) can have five kids and never sit the month is because she already lives a higher standard of living than you do sitting your month. She’s got a dedicated chef for her food, with top grade ingredients and perfectly balanced nutrition. She’s got bodyguards when she goes out. When she gives birth, she gets the best service at her own private hospital. She doesn’t have to raise any of her five kids, they all have their own nannies. Forget personal trainers. She can probably buy gyms the way you buy bottles of water. She’s got the very best doctors in the industry.
She just has to decide on the overall direction of childcare. She doesn’t have to do everything herself. What, you think her son graduated from MIT and her daughter went to Qinghua (top 2 university) on talent alone? They had the best teachers and the best connections from the moment they were born. Normal people have to blow their entire life savings on a house in a good school district.
When Liang Anqi’s son’s nanny won the lottery for a nine-figure reward, she bought Liang Anqi’s son an iPhone and then kept on working as his nanny. That’s how good the job is, that you’ve got a high standard of living and can have fun with your job, to the point where you want to keep working on a nine-figure lottery win.
Normal people can’t begin to compare.
I had two kids, vaginal delivery both times. I took the utmost care while sitting the month. Every time, I sat the month for over half a year. All I did at home was recover. I hired a nanny, I don’t take care of the baby myself, I don’t breastfeed.
But I could still feel that my standard of living went down after having a child. I had less time. And my body got so much weaker, like I’d exhausted all my energy.
Because of childbirth, my career and schooling has been on pause for a long time. Can’t help it, I just feel weak. Pregnancy was hell, and postpartum is even more hell. I just want to sleep all day.
So you need to be super cautious about having children. Most women really can’t handle everything. Having a child will destroy your career.
When Liang Anqi has children, she can get more money from the family trustfund based on her family population. She can get returns on her investment right away. Normal women can’t get anything out of their kids except more suffering.
But you know, discarding our rose coloured glasses for rich people here for a second, Liang Anqi really is a fierce woman. If I were as rich as her, I couldn’t go through a c-section five times. I’d die.”
Comments say, “I couldn’t agree more with every single sentence. My advice for my own children is to not even think about having kids unless they can afford a reliable full-time nanny, because otherwise, you’ll find yourself stuck doing the job of a full time nanny.”
“Even Princess Kate is visibly older after having three kids, not to mention normal people.”
An askreddit question, “Why don’t you donate blood?”
The top voted reply is, “If donating blood is really good for your body, I couldn’t possibly get a turn.”
Comments say, “I’m 18 years old, female, donated blood once. My friend said when I came out, my whole face was blue.”
“Because people are selfish.”
“Every time I donate blood, I feel weak and sickly for half a month.”
“I donated blood once, and that year, I got a lot of fevers, my immune system got destroyed, and I caught chickenpox.”
A tiktok video showing a couple at the hospital, where the mother is getting an IV. She wants the dad to take the kid for a while, and the dad complains that he didn’t rest well last night and feels tired today, and began playing on his phone. The mother was left to get an IV in one hand and hold her baby in the other.
Comments say, “I bet the only reason he came along is because he didn’t want to stay home with the kid.”
“Meanwhile, people be like, “If you don’t get married, who’s gonna take care of you?””
“You know why she’s not flipping out at him? Because if she says even a word, that man’s gonna start blowing up, and he’s gonna scare the kid. The kid’s going to cry, and she’s going to feel bad. So she’d rather suck it up and hold the kid with one hand than scare him with daddy’s temper.”
Under the hashtag #a lot of people want dragon babies, people are asking, “I feel like a lot of people are trying to get pregnant this year. We’re getting a lot of people asking about availability at our month-sitting centre. They say it’s because next year is Year of the Dragon, and they want a dragon baby, so everyone’s trying to get pregnant. Is there anything special about dragon babies?”
Comments say, “It wouldn’t matter if your kid’s an actual literal dragon, if you don’t educate him well.”
“Feel like this is some sort of brainwashing propaganda.”
“So what if they’re a dragon baby, they’ll still be worked like cattle once they’re out in society.”
I feel like Asians just hate anything with blood