A timeline of the Huang Zijiao (TV presenter) sexual harassment scandal.
6/19 5:15: First victim accuses him on the internet of forcing kisses on her when she was 17 years old and taking nude photos of her.
6/19 8:09: Second victim levies similar accusations, that she was also forcibly kissed while on his car and taken out to have photo taken of her. That Huang Zijiao even prepared Amerian-style bikinis for her to change into.
6/19 12:18: Huang Zijiao admits to his mistakes and apologises.
6/19 12:27: Huang Zijiao reveals all kinds of scandals involving 13 other celebrities, including that Barbie Hsu and Dee Hsu and Mavis Fan and Aya Liu doing drugs. Woo Gwa and Shotgun Tuo have gone to jail. Jacky Woo has fucked up romantic relationships. Sam Tseng smokes and drinks backstage. A married female singer is cheating on her husband with her producer. A very popular set of brother are both cheating on their wives. Someone with the surname Tao is always asking after Chris Wang. Someone with the surname Jia is actively pursuing someone. Ariel Sha denies she is dating.
6/19 13:04: Videos are deleted.
6/19 13:06: Huang Zijiao cannot be contacted before he’s due to appear for an event.
6/19 13:32: His 450,000 member fan community is shut down.
6/19 13:33: Huang Zijiao is rushed to the hospital after emotional instability after drinking, with wounds concentrated on his left wrist and left chest. Currently, his life is not in danger.
6/19 15:07: Summer Meng, his wife, releases a statement, “We are a family. No matter what happens, we’ll face it together, and try to make up for past mistakes.”
Comments say, “I don’t care about him. I’m interested in all the scandals he’s exposing.”
“I feel like he’s telling the truth.”
“He’s just trying to make even bigger news elsewhere and switch people’s focus, so there’s less coverage of his sexual harassment case.”
“I’m at the end of my ropes. No one can help me. My parents just gave me the final notice yesterday, that either I marry this year, or they’ll go die. They said they’ve lost all their face because I’m 35 and still unmarried. That they can’t face any of their relatives or friends. If my mental state was strong enough to marry just for the sake of being married, I really would like to help everyone out. But I can’t do it. I’ve been alone since I was born. I don’t like any of the men I’ve been on a first date with. I feel like something’s wrong with me. How can other people like someone after being with them for long enough, but I can’t?”
Comments say, “Then don’t get married. Let’s see if they’ll actually die or not.”
“It’s not like they’re celebrities. What do they care what people think of them?”
“You’re 35. You’re more than old enough to just move out and go off on your own.”
Headline News in Fujian: “A Fujian woman has finally gotten a married after birthing two daughters and a son. She had all three of her children before marriage, and only after producing a son, did both sets of parents agree to the marriage. She’s being carried into her husband’s home according to the local tradition of “welcoming the golden grandchild home.” Although the husband is red in the face with exertion and covered in sweat, you can tell how happy he is. Internet comments are all saying, “Both families are happily congratulating the new couple!””
Comments say, “I’ll clarify. I’m from Fujian, and people really are like this.”
“If you don’t have any real news, you could just not post anything today.”
“Yeah, she’s only getting a wedding because of the son. What are you even pretending for, Fujian. Oh wait, no. It’s only because of a son that she was granted the honour of a wedding. After all, both thunder and raindrops are gifts from God. We can’t call this sexism.”
Aya Liu has released a public statement that she has never used any illegal drugs in any form, she strictly abides by the law, and she will use the law to protect herself against other people’s slander.
Comments say, “Learn from Jam Hsiao and give us evidence, not statements.”
“Shouldn’t be hard testing your hair to prove yourself innocent, right?”
“Lol, guess whether we believe you or not.”
“I’ve seen photos of you doing drugs just now on weibo, while you’re being held by a male model.”
“I bought this for my friend to eat while she’s working the nightshift, and she got really mad at me. I didn’t know, and when I handed it to her, she was immediately pissy about it. I’m kinda upset. I don’t know if I’m oversensitive or not.”
She attaches a screenshot of their texts too.
Friend: “You could’ve bought anything. Why mangos?”
OP: “I didn’t know. I got you grapes and watermelon too. I just got a random assortment of fruits.”
Friend: “Watermelon is red and bright. You can’t eat it at night.”
OP: “Oh, okay.”
Friend: “Mango (the first syllable of the transliteration uses the same character for “shining” 芒), Mango, it’s obviously you can’t eat that at night too. Remember next time. I can’t eat any of this at night.”
OP: “Okay, I’ll remember :(“
Comments say, “I work nightshifts in a hospital too, and we really actually do our best to avoid mangos and want want milk (旺 also means bright).”
“She’s a nurse, isn’t she? Hospitals really do care a lot about this stuff.”
“I don’t understand. She can tell you straight up that she can’t eat this at night, why can’t you just tell her straight up you had no idea and that she should watch her tone of voice? I feel like you’re oversensitive precisely because your friend’s been domineering for too long. If something makes me uncomfortable, I just tell people right away. If you speak your mind, you don’t get that upset, because the only people who’ll stick around are people who get along with you.”
“In continuation of my last blog post, why are there so few kids who are grateful these days? From my point of view, I think it’s because of the unlimited investment in kids that’s the norm in parenting these days. Kids are gaining large amounts of profit from their family, without having to put anything in.
Like, for example. Today, your kid tells you, “Mommy, I want potato chips”, and tomorrow, he wants basketball shoes, and the next day, he wants a bicycle, and so on and so forth. As kids grow up, they’re going to make all sorts of demands. Because of the single child trend, that means there are six wallets endlessly investing in the kid, satisfying his every demand. But having every demand of yours met is actually quite a scary thing. When a kid is small, he might only want small things. But as he grows up, one day, he’s going to ask his dad for a 3 million RMB car, because all his friends drive seven-figure cars. Are you going to satisfy that too? Because you’ve never refused him before, if you deny him even once, your relationship is going to break down. He’s going to hold a grudge against you. And he’s going to hop on the internet to complain about how poor people shouldn’t have kids. Any parent that can’t maximally support their children are bad parents. Just think of anyone around you who doesn’t know how to say no, and you’ll understand. Parents are put in a position where they never say no when it comes to their kids. When has a pushover ever gotten gratitude from people in life?
Secondly, all the satisfaction the kid is getting from his family comes at no cost to him. Nowadays, parents are focused on a kid’s grades, requiring that he do a lot of schoolwork. But most people never demand their kid participate in the household, from cleaning to cooking or anything else that’s within his ability. Most kids never do stuff like this, and because they’ve invested so little in their family, it only worsens what I talked about in my first point.
From my point of view, in a parent’s interaction with their kid, there needs to be some things you refuse. You have to let the kid know from childhood that their demands might be refused. There’s no endless satisfaction. Even a bag of potato chips or a piece of chocolate could be refused. That way, kids know not to bring up unreasonable demands to you. And even if they bring up a demand and it’s refused, they won’t immediately jump to hating you, because he’s used to normal human relationships.
When I was going to school, there were a lot of poor people, and just a couple of rich kids. Back then, instant noodles had just come out. They were about a quarter a bag, and my desk mate ate them frequently. I wanted it so bad I’d drool, but I never blamed my parents for not buying me instant noodles. I’ve never heard of my classmates hating their parents either. Not ever. That’s just because of how people were raised back then.
I treat my own kids like this too. For kids who don’t like to make demands of their parents and suppress their own desires, I encourage them to talk about what they want. If they don’t bring it up, how would people know? For kids who bring up too many demands, I’ll regularly refuse them. It’s not that I couldn’t satisfy it, but I need to tell him that in life, no matter what relationship you have with others, whether it’s with your parents, or your boss, or your coworkers, or your spouse, your demand could be refused. If you’re denied, don’t get angry, don’t hate. This is normal in life.”
Comments say, “I’ve got lots of little kids in my class who borrow other people’s stuff. And when people refuse them, they’ll come crying to me. I told them that they can borrow stuff, but other people have the right to say no too.”
“The internet is so mean these days. People are going on and on about how poor people shouldn’t have kids, but what people count as “not poor”? If it’s a matter of being comfortable enough to send your kids to the best schools and sign them up for the most expensive extracurriculars and only use the top brand for everything, then 90% of people in China don’t deserve to have kids. Because most people are normal people. They can only provide their kids with a reasonable amount of comfort. Who doesn’t want their kids to have a better life?”
“I was absolutely spoiled growing up, and I had to work on my own to get out of that mindset. But even so, I’ve gotta say, I’m not gonna be one of those kids who’s totally fillially pious.”
A tiktok video of a doggo beating the shit out of his owner with a pillow. The blogger writes, “This is my first time seeing someone be domestic violence’d by their dog. Call the police—remember that abuse is only never or all the time.” The owner jokes, “I choose to forgive him one last time.”
Comments joke, “That dog is all like, “When can I finally inherit all this shit!?””
“He looked back at his owner at the very end, and his eyes were even red.”
“But he’s biting your pillow! My bedding is my absolute bottom line. You screw up my pillows, I’ll never forgive you.”
I'm still mystified as to why they can't eat mango? Shining? Some sort of association with death?
In any case it's ludicrous that a supposed nurse would take something so silly so seriously.