06/15/23 - The gentlest and yet deadliest slave revolt is not marrying, not giving birth, not taking out loans.
“Whether you’re in China or overseas, I’m sure you’ve heard about how sexist Japan is. Let’s talk about the position of women in Japan and whether there’s actually a lot of discrimination. Japan is ranked 116th in the world for gender equality. I’ll just write out a few examples I saw.
In Japan, families tend to be one of two extremes. Either they have no children at all, or they have half a dozen kids. And the kids will usually be super close together in age. It’s very common to see mommies hauling a baby on their back and a baby in their arms and a string of kids and an armful of bags, with the daddy walking in front like it’s none of his business.
When I first came to Japan, I asked an old man why Japanese cars are so small. He said that one aspect was because Japanese roads tend to be narrower. And another aspect is to make it more comfortable for women to drive their kids to and from school. Japanese kitchens are often designed to have really low countertops to suit women’s average heights, as though housework and cooking and driving the kids are naturally women’s duty.
Top universities will deliberately lower female test scores in order to ensure more male students. Some medical university had to publicly give out apologies when they were caught lowering the test scores of female students by up to 20% in order to get more male students.
Men are always preferred for promotions and raises in the workplace. Whether it’s in corporations or politics, it’s very, very rare to see women in leadership positions. There’s even some news stories of unreasonable standards towards women in the workplace, like front desk ladies not being allowed to wear glasses, and have to wear contact lenses and high heels.
According to Japanese law, a woman has to wait 6 months after a divorce before they can get married again. But men can get married again immediately. Apparently, for a civilised country like Japan, marriage may be free, but remarriage isn’t. It’s pretty ironic.
A lot of girl’s life goals are to marry and become a housewife (which is considered a legitimate profession in Japan), so from the very beginning, their thinking is that they’re not as good as men and have to rely on men.
Women’s rights isn’t just a problem for Japan. It’s a problem for the whole world. Feminism isn’t about becoming like men, or that the weak have to become stronger. It’s that even if you are weak, you should still be respected. Even if you are female, you should still be treated equally.
Anyway, what do you think about the position of women in China compared to Japan?”
Comments say, “East Asian countries are all the same—they can’t really make fun of each other.”
“Chinese women are chained with iron. They can’t get on weibo.”
“I hear that the wait period after a divorce is to ensure the paternity of a woman’s child. Honestly, I laugh at this cuck paranoia.”
“Do women with younger brothers really had a hard time on the dating market? I’ve got a female friend, from a fairly comfortable family. Her parents have already prepared a house and car for her brother, she doesn’t need to help out. She’s got her own car, and has a lot of great qualities, but she has a hard time dating men who are at the same tier as her. Their attitudes get cold right after they find out she has a younger brother. But she doesn’t want to date down. How should she resolve this?”
Comments say, “Most men are terrified of women helping out their brothers, but need their sisters to help them out.”
“Yeah, that’s not a great quality on the dating market. Most people are going to assume that your family is sexist and are going to pressure you to help out your brother in other ways. Sure, this might be a bias. But if they have other choices, then obviously, they’re going to choose the single child. It’s just like how, as a company, if you’ve got people applying from Ivy’s, you’re not going to take a community college graduate. Like, for example, if the girl in question didn’t have a younger brother, then the house and car would be hers.”
“So men absolutely know that in a family with mixed gender kids, girls are the ones who are exploited.”
“I totally get now why you should only have children with someone you truly love. Pregnancy hormones are scary. I don’t actually do anything all day. I don’t take care of the baby. I don’t breastfeed. But I still want to cry every day. Every time I see the baby, I get annoyed. I feel like he’s taken everything from me. I want to go out to have fun, but I don’t want everyone else saying I’m irresponsible. 2 weeks after giving birth, I got some plastic surgery shots done, and so many people were criticising me (only my husband supported me). And I’m dieting and skipping meals every day, and the people in my postpartum recovery classes say I can’t do this, that I’m not being responsible to myself. They’re demanding why I’m dieting when I’m only 48kg. They keep saying they don’t understand. I told them before I got pregnant, I was only 44kg. And she just kept repeating she didn’t understand.
She saw needle marks around my neck, shoulders, and face, and asked what happened. And I said I got some shots because I got extra melanin after pregnancy, and my neck got darker. And then she started going on and on about how she didn’t understand again. If you don’t understand, then stop trying to. Just stay ugly. Why fucking bother other people? She kept asking how much it cost too, and I didn’t tell her. It’s not like I spent her money. What fucking business is it of hers? I don’t want to see this person every again. Even if I have to throw away my recovery class card, I don’t want to see her again.
I’m already having so much anxiety about my body and figure, and she’s lecturing me every day, and that just makes me hate my baby more. If I’m around him for even a minute, I start crying. I honestly liked babies before I had one. Why? If it weren’t for my husband, I would honestly want to die.”
She shows texts with her husband, where he says, “Where do you wanna vacation to when you’re done sitting the month?”
OP: “I don’t understand why I had to have a baby. I’m so fucking done. Everyone is gonna yell at me about how I’m not watching the baby. I’m only having fun by myself.”
Husband: “Who cares? If you want to do it, then do it. What does it matter what other people think?”
OP: “But I’ll feel them judging me. Wouldn’t my baby hate me too?”
Husband: “There’s gotta be boundaries to every relationship. And children are all about how you raise them. If you raise him well, he wouldn’t hate anybody.”
Comments say, “I was the same while I was sitting the month. Nothing bad was going on, but I still wanted to cry all the time, and I got super codependent with my husband. It’ll get better after a while.”
“He’s right. What’s it matter what other people think? None of my business. I just care about making sure I’m happy.”
“The darkness of your neck will go away on its own, just like the dark line on your tummy.” OP replies to this one, “I can’t wait that long. Every time I see my neck, I want to cry.”
A tiktok video of a fan running onto the football field to hug Lionel Messi and being chased by security guards. The blogger comments, “Look at this speed, this stamina. He’s so much better than the Chinese football team that needs a feast of sea cucumbers just to make it onto the field. I suggest whoever recruits for them consider this guy. He’s got great potential.”
A father asks his 24-year-old son why he’s not married yet. The son replies, “I’ve got no car and no house, just a self-built house in the countryside and 5K a month. I’m worried I’ll end up starving someone else’s daughter.” The father suggests finding a partner so they can work on a house together. And the son replies, “That sweet and innocent era is long gone.”
Comments say, “You mean, the era of stupid women who are easy to manipulate is gone.”
“The gentlest and yet deadliest slave revolt is not marrying, not giving birth, not taking out loans.”
Recently, in Zhejiang, an out of state woman, Zhou Ziming, got married and is ending her lease on her apartment. Not only did she thoroughly clean each room before she moved out, she left four bags of candy as wedding favours for her landlord. Once this got on the news, it drew much attention from internet comments. The landlord claims that he knows Zhou is from out of state and is working hard in Changshan, and she doesn’t have it easy, so he’s always helped out as much as possible. Zhou, who works as a nurse, says that she’s very grateful to her landlord, because whenever any maintenance problems came up, he immediately contacted people to fix the issue ASAP. The help and friendship she received from her landlord is what helped her continue to stay in Changshan.
Comments say, “Society needs more people like this.”
“Kindness will bring kindness.”
“Does this really need to get onto the trending topics three times? Are we gonna see a trending topic about her husband and the landlord’s family next?”
A blogger posts screenshots of a thread on a forum board, “I was just eating with my bros in the cafeteria, and we were chatting, and I said something about how I think cats are cute and I was thinking about getting one. And one of my friends said that cat poop smells really bad though. And then a girl from the next table over suddenly threw her food at my friend’s head and immediately tried to run off. We chased after her, and she started arguing with us. She was super aggressive. Apparently, she felt like we were being mean to small animals? She even slapped my friend while they were arguing. Is this what a feminazi is like? Help, she’s being completely unreasonable. Can I get any help here?”
Comments: “Bro, start talking about your depression. If you don’t start, she’s gonna get there first.”
Comments: “You can’t let her get back to her dorm. As soon as she gets on the internet, she’s gonna control the tone of this story.”
Comments: “Sue her for causing a public disturbance.”
OP: “I’ve called the police. They’re on their way.”
Comments: “Call the cops, get a copy of the security footage, record her, decide on a settlement amount, inform the Dean of her college and her professors.”
OP: “Holy shit, she screamed at the cops in their face and ran off again. They’ve caught her again. Lol, she even called me names, said I was ugly and I say disgusting shit too. I really am going to get depressed. The cops are so angry lol.”
Comments: “She could’ve gone on to a Master’s Degree. Now she’s gonna have to livestream.” (A pun—livestreaming (直播, zhibo) is pronounced the same as, “directly to a Doctorate” (直博).”
OP: “We’re at the security guard’s office right now. She’s totally fearless. Did I run into some kind of gangster here? I’m scared.”
Comments: “If you don’t attack her, she’s gonnna attack you.”
Comments: “I don’t want to follow this thread anymore. Someone ping me with what OP gets fined with at the end.”
OP: “Now the cops think she’s got some kind of mental problem.”
Comments say, “Oh, you’re done. She’s acting mental now. Next, she’s gonna say she has depression.”
Comments, “Make her eat cat poop in front of you. She thinks it smells great, right?”
OP: “My friend wanted her to apologise on camera and post it to her social media, but she won’t. She’s suggesting she apologise to him in person and pay him back for his shirt. What do you guys think?”
Comments: “You could dunk a cat’s litter box over her head and then apologise and buy a new shirt for her. See if she’s okay with it.”
OP: “It’s done. She’s gonna pay 300 RMB to my friend and apologise to the three of us.”
Comments: “That’s it? At least make her clean the cafeteria’s floor.”
OP: “The cops said not to make a big deal out of it, since we’re both in the math major here.”
Comments: ”Fine. I guess we’ve got an official market price on hitting other people and calling them names.”
Comments: “She totally slapped somebody though. Isn’t that at least 2K?”
Comments to the blogger’s compilation say, “I’ve got a cat. I can confirm their poop does, in fact, smell bad. Especially when they don’t bury it properly.”
“I don’t know what to say. Because of her extremism, we’re gonna get a flood of cat abuse videos again.”
“Boy, these cops are good at muddying the waters.”
“Do other cats think ragdoll cats are ugly? I just got a new Napoleon (not a purebred, I was scammed), but she’s still super cute. I love her.
I already had a big tabby, a 7.5kg obese monster, and a eunuch at that. The first time the two cats met each other, neither was aggressive. They were best buds within minutes. I’ve even see the eunuch lick the Napoleon down there on security camera.
Then I got a ragdoll, around 5kg, kinda manly looking, purebred ragdoll, also a eunuch. The first time they met, the Napoleon hissed at him and wouldn’t let him get near. Every time the ragdoll tries to cuddle her, she swats him away. He’s always waiting around the Napoleon, trying to get her attention, meowing super cutely at her, but it doesn’t matter. She hates him.
Are ragdolls really not as good as tabbies?”
Comments reply, “If you want to know what ragdolls look like to other cats, go look at Gao Xiaosong.”
“Big face, fatty, long-hair, and yet he keeps trying act all cutesy and girlish and sweet. Would you like such a man? I think in the eyes of cats, ragdolls are like Gao Xiaosong trying to act like a magical girl.”
“Whereas calicos are like the Dilraba of the cat world. They’re always the most popular among other cats.”
A blogger is complaining about the summary to a webnovel they found, which reads, “As the child the Noble Consort brought into the palace with her, everyone knows Ji Mingrou isn’t a real Princess. But thankfully, the Noble Consort had much imperial favour. She lived a better life than even the real Princesses. She could even tell the Crown Prince off and not blink an eye. And yet, after thoroughly enjoying herself for over ten years, her archnemesis, the Crown Prince, became Emperor.
Ji Mingrou was sent to live a nun’s life in Yuzhou for offending the new Emperor. Lately, she’s been taken home by Marquis Zhenyuan. The old lady of the house felt bad that her granddaughter was over 20 years old and still to be married, and arranged many first dates for her. The old lady of the house said, “Although good families don’t want you, but you can still marry into a poor family as a concubine.” Her cousins even made fun of her to her face that she had angered the new Emperor, and now no one dares to marry her.
And so, the new Emperor’s most hated enemy returned to the capital. The most haughty Princess Ro’an is now just a poor Marchioness that nobody wants. The noble ladies who has a score to settle with Princess Ro’an cannot wait to kick her while she’s down, to get revenge for her years of bullying.
Who would expect that this destitute Marchioness is just as fiery as ever, with biting words and ruthless deeds. No one would get any advantage over her. Thank God, this hateful destitute Marchioness has finally gotten in trouble in front of the new Emperor again. Everyone mocked that now, she’s really gone and done it.
The new Emperor was furious. He ordered that Ji Mingrou be arrested and imprisoned in the Palace, in Zichen Palace, so that she would learn a lesson.
Everyone in the capital celebrated. This was the best news they’d heard all year.
Nobody knows what she’s been subjected to, but it’s rumoured that every night, strange moans would be heard from Zichen Palace.”
The blogger complains, “A fake princess can bully the actual real Crown Prince? Are you shitting me? And no matter how fake she is, she used to be a Princess, either way. And she’s currently a Marchioness. What the fuck do you mean she’s gonna be someone’s concubine? How is she destitute just because she can’t get married? She’s the proper main branch daughter of Marquis Zhenyuan. They’d much rather keep her an old maiden than marry her off to a poor family as a concubine.”
Comments say, “Being a wealthy single lady is much better than being a wealthy wife, Jesus.”
“No way. They rather send her back to the nunnery than let her be a concubine to a poor family.”
“Back in the day, nobility marrying peasantry was literally against the law. The whole family’s going to get in trouble over it.”
“My husband makes 4500 RMB a month. Our food budget is 800 a month. This morning, I went to the supermarket with my son and bought 19 RMB’s worth of pork, and split it into 6 portions. I put two portions into my son’s noodles today, and the rest can go into a stir fry for dinner. Shrimp was 25 RMB a pound. I split it into four portions. That way, I can make him shrimp cakes and shrimp dumplings. And what’s left can be shrimp stir fry for for dinner. This way, each meal is like less than 5 RMB. The vegetables can be bought online, and you get a ton for a couple of dollars. 800 RMB a month for food is more than enough.”
Comments say, “Oh my god, she’s so good at living. She’s doing her best within her capabilities. There’s always a limit to what you can do. If you make 10K a month, there are people who make 20K. If you make 50K a month, there are people who make 100K. If not like anyone’s going hungry. Making the best of life within your capabilities is winning at life.”
“Sigh. Look at what she’s been reduced to by life.”
“I could eat all of this in a single meal.”