“My wife lays around all day in the month-sitting centre. When we took a tour, they said they had all kinds of classes here, and we talked about how we were going to take classes while we were at the centre, but now, she just lays around every day. Feels like we’re missing out on the whole package. Are you guys the same while sitting the month? XD”
Comments say, “My god, how terrifying. A man who wants his wife to be thinking about lessons even while she’s sitting the month, just because he feels like he’s not getting his money’s worth.”
“What are you supposed to do while sitting the month except lay flat? Do a barrel roll?”
“If you don’t like it, you can go give birth instead.”
“A lot of ordinary girls have been brainwashed by these supposed “independent women”. Their favourite slogan is that women are doomed to a life of slaving away as soon as they’re married. Their children don’t take their surnames, they can’t go back to their own family for the holidays. Actual smart girls stay single their whole lives and live freely as themselves.
And then, a whole bunch of normal girls end up believing that bullshit, and don’t look for a partner at their best age.
And once they don’t have an age advantage anymore, and start suffering the hardships of society, they discover that whether or not they’re married, they have to slave away their whole lives so long as they don’t have money. Sure, they don’t have to worry about whether their children have their surname, because they don’t have children to begin with. And they don’t have to fight about whether or not to go back to their family for the holidays, because they’ve already broken up with their parents by this point. Even if she went back, she wouldn’t be able to put up with her parents urging her to get married, so they can’t go home anyways XD.
I’ve discovered that there are a whole bunch of really sinister girls, who know that this kind of slogan is only going to screw over ordinary girls who can never make any money, but they’ll still keep saying it. At first, I didn’t get it, and then I found out later that it was just their way of making sure there’s less competition for high-quality men.
Some girls are surrounded by high-quality men when they’re young, but they encounter these people who talk them into not dating, and they missed out on all those great opportunities. By the time they realise they want to date again, all those high-quality men have gotten married a long time ago before they turned 30.
So, if you can really be a career elite and make lots of money, it doesn’t matter if you get married or not. But if you can’t, then you’re better off dating as early as possible.”
Comments say, “For the ordinary person, marrying and having kids is the most stable path in life. Don’t think about being an independent career woman, most people live paycheck to paycheck. Giving up on your family for the sake of your job is just being sheep for capitalists.”
“The baseline for Chinese men is just way too low. Women are better off without a man in their life. I haven’t met more than three men in my whole life who are normal, independent, not arrogant or creepy, respect other people and are kind. I work in media, and I’ve met all kinds of CEOs, politicians, and influencers. Some might look all upstanding, but then they’ll suddenly reveal what a scumbag they are. I’ve learned a lot of lessons this way. It’s crazy what a great mask people can wear. I’ve met people who are happily married who’ve sexually harassed me. His kids were super cute too, sigh.”
“But if you have to slave away whether or not you’re married so long as you don’t have money, then why would you get married? Sorry, I just don’t understand the logic here.”
“I remember reading it on the news a couple of years ago, IKEA cabinets crushing a little boy to death and paying out 320 million in damages. My son’s almost died to one of these cabinets too. He was around one years old. My in-laws had just come over from Korea to Canada to help me take care of two kids.
My MIL was busy in the kitchen. My FIL was playing with my daughter, facing away from my son. And my son pulled open the first layer of drawers and started climbing up.
I’d just gotten off of work at that point, and wanted to check up on the kid’s food. My MIL said there was still half a bowl of wontons left, and he hadn’t eaten much, so I start going after him, trying to feed him wontons. My MIL said not to chase him around and feed him, it builds bad habits. But for some reason, that day, I insisted on it. As soon as I got in the room, I saw the cabinet tilting over and about to fall. I threw the bowl of wontons down and caught the cabinet just in time. If I was even a second late, I don’t know what would have happened. He probably would’ve died.
So I never say things like how, “A child’s birthday is their mother’s day of suffering.” I just tell him this story. And every time, my son said from the bottom of his heart, “Thank you, mom, for saving my life, or I would’ve died after just coming to this world for a year.””
Comments say, “It’s so tiring to raise children. The worst part is, my husband often feels like kids can just be kept free range and raise themselves. If I could start over again, I would never get married.”
“Same situation. My cabinet fell over too. Thankfully, it got caught on the tail of the toddler bed, and my kid survived in the triangle of space between the bed and the floor. I was terrified. Nailed the cabinet to the wall after that.”
“It’s not easy for kids to grow up. I remember seeing a thread full of the various reasons kids pass away in the countryside. It was really unimaginable and spine-chilling.”
After dating actress Hao Lei for four years, fellow actor Deng Chao broke up with her without a word when she accepted a movie where she would have to appear nude. In an interview, Hao Lei said, “If your relationship can be ruined over a scene in a fictional movie, then it is love at all? I don’t think it is.”
A blogger comments on the incident, “I mean, I can’t accept this kind of scene either. I don’t think any normal person can. The crux of the whole problem is that he’d told you before that he was against this, it went against his bottom line, why would you still go? Fundamentally, it was because she wasn’t afraid of losing him. Only people who love you would care. If he didn’t love you, why would he give a fuck who saw?”
Comments say, “Deng Chao did nothing wrong. If he can’t accept it, then he should leave.”
“Yeah, no man can accept that sort of thing.”
“Who could accept nude scenes? Nobody would let the whole world see their lover’s body. Don’t talk to me about bullshit like how it’s art.”
According to American news reports, the CDC has explained that they have discovered a new strain of Covid in America and is currently tracking this strain. Based on GISAID’s data, this strain has been named BA.2.86, and currently has four cases around the world, in Denmark, Israel, and Michigan, America. Based on the bata, BA.2.86 is showing over 30 mutations, far more than any other strain before.
The CDC explains that based on the current evidence, it’s hard to tell what kind of health risk this strain will present to the public, but it may be more of a risk than any other strain so far.
Due to the large amounts of mutations in BA.2.86, the WHO has listed it as a “Monitored Mutant Strain”.
Comments say, “The shitbags are dropping new biological weapons again.”
“Please change “discovered” to “developed”. You’re not very careful with your word usage.”
“It wasn’t discovered. It was released.”
“I just had a baby June last year, and I haven’t had a period since. Around the 22nd of July this year, I suddenly had 3-4 days of bleeding like it was a period. I thought it was just a period and didn’t pay a lot of attention. Then I started feeling sick around the 7th of August. I did a pregnancy test, and it was uncertain at the time. Got an ultrasound and they didn’t see anything. The doctor said it might have been too early. I had more spotting on the 10th and 11th, and took another pregnancy test, and it was uncertain again. Did another ultrasound today, and still nothing, even though a week had passed. The doctor said maybe the bleeding on the 22nd wasn’t a period after all. I got an HCG and progesterone test today but the results won’t be out until tomorrow. Anyone who understands what’s going on? I’m so anxious.”
Comments say, “Women are so mean to women.”
“Wow, I’m impressed. I’m 3 months postpartum now, and I don’t want sex at all. I’m exhausted every day. I don’t even have time to sleep.”
“Uh…I just want to ask, do you have to keep breastfeeding even when the baby is a year old?”
A tiktok video of a girl begging a man on her knees to pay her back the 200K he borrowed so her dad can get treatment at the hospital. A witness claims that the two of them are friends, and December last year, the man had borrowed 200K from the woman because a family member was hospitalised. Now, the woman’s dad is in the hospital, and she’s pleading with the man, “Could you please at least sell your car and pay part of it back?”
Comments say, “Why the hell are people who owe money the high and mighty ones? Should he have paid it back voluntarily? She reached out and helped when you were in trouble, and now that she’s in trouble, she has to beg you for help? I am continuously shocked by the society we live in.”
“Just sue him in court. You can nail him for delaying your dad’s treatment.”
“People con money by borrowing it. They never planned on paying it back. Or maybe he just changed his mind afterwards and don’t want to pay it back now.”
OK, this has been bugging me, and I need to ask: what are China's commonly accepted covid-19 origin stories? Do they think that American agents in the WIV released it on purpose? Or that we were were intentionally doing dangerous research on foreign soil so that someone else would bear the brunt of any mistakes?
As I understand it, here in the USA we've mostly settled on it being either from an accidental leak from the WIV, or from an exotic meat market. For a while there was speculation about cave explorers, but I haven't heard that in years. And after China's response was so self-damaging, I haven't heard suggestions that the CCP intentionally released it.