2/16/23 - There were fifty wounds to her head alone.
Girl in fifth grade is requesting a new school bag because her current one has a hole in it. The last time she got a new school bag is in first grade, when she first started going to school. Mother is not sure whether she should buy it for her, because she doesn’t want her daughter to “become vain”.
Girl dated a man 3 years ago, and he popped up today in her messages to ask to AA the five dates they went on, again, three years ago, adding up to 1000 RMB (150USDish). Girl ignore him, so he threatens to call her mom to get his money back. Says he is being plenty generous, because he’s not even pursuing his lost time and reputation from having gone on five dates with her. He sent an itemised list of the money he had spent on her, including a necklace he had bought that the girl had never wanted. She offered to mail it back to him at the time. He refused. She asked for the store name so she could do a return. He refused to provide it. The same with the food they had went out to get—the girl had offered each time to pay, and he had refused each time.
CCTV official news celebrates how well China has handled Covid, based on having the lowest Covid death rate.
Lady complains that her mother plans to give 600,000RMB to her brother when he marries, but only 60,000RMB to her when she marries, and questions whether this is due to sexism. She’s getting a lot of comments underneath saying she’s ungrateful because her parents always bought her iPhones and iPads and even allowed her to study overseas in Ukraine (on a scholarship she earned herself), and gave her her own room at home, while her brother had to sleep in the living room.
Women are jealous in the comments to a video of interviews with men in Scandinavia about how they try to take on 50% of childrearing duties and think it’s important to spend time with their kids.
Making fun of how ugly the new Little Mermaid is beneath a post of screenshots from the trailer
Indian lower caste woman gets married to higher caste man—she must keep four vases stacked on top of each other on her head, kept in place with the help of her family, and walk to the man’s house on her knees. If they fall off, he won’t accept her anymore. In the comments, people are saying Chinese women should marry to India.
An extremely popular long-running Chinese talk show was cancelled last year out of nowhere—the reason for it has finally been published. Hunan TV is requiring all their TV hosts to join the communist party as party members and focus their work on “positive and socially constructive work”.
Lady got engaged and received a bride price of a little over six figures, she wants to use it to buy a small house—about 500sqft. Man strongly disagrees, because he already has a house that has a mortgage and now they will have to pay two mortgages. Lady says that legally, the bride price is hers and she can spend it on whatever she wants, and this is to ensure that even if they get divorced, she’ll still have a house to her name. (According to Chinese law, because the down payment on the man’s house was paid before marriage and her name cannot be added to a property while there’s still an active mortgage on it, she won’t get the house if they divorce.) Because of this, they have severe fights to the point that they break up 2 months before the wedding.
Blogger writes about how he heard lately of a wealthy individual who found a girlfriend who was able to keep a ginormous mansion cleaned top to bottom and cook delicious meals. He was deeply satisfied. But yesterday, this blogger found out that this whole time, the wealthy individual had been giving his girlfriend all kinds of money, and his girlfriend had been finding all kinds of services from maids to organisers to cooks. So in reality, she’s just the middle man making the difference in money, and only knows how to smoke, drink, and gamble, while the wealthy individual thinks she’s the perfect housewife.
Primary school student reported his school for making him to go a designated bookstore to get books—189RMB for 5 thin booklets. The Department of Education is currently investigating.
An askreddit asking what Chinese people find very normal that foreigners find absolutely inconceivable? The top answer is cooking—three times a day. That the Canadians the answerer knows basically don’t cook. Or rather, they will cook one meal every couple of days, and this one meal will still involve a lot of pre-processed materials. For example, for chicken, they will just use chicken torn off of the rotisserie chicken grocery stores sell. Most of the time, they eat out or buy pre-cooked meals that just need heated up from the store. Most Canadians have spotless kitchens but super dirty coffee makers—it’s not that they clean often, they just don’t use it. Once, a housewife expressed shock and awe, “You cook a meal for your kids every day?” She laughed and said “I cook a meal for them three times a day.” And since then, this housewife has been telling everyone what a fantastic mother she is. She points out that western grocery stores even sell pre-beaten eggs. There are also videos online teaching you how to cook enough meals for one week in one go. The answerer’s mother expresses strong disgust—isn’t that just eating leftovers for a whole week? She’s seen many times someone just eat a peanut butter sandwich for lunch. Or even just a bread bun. She’s once met a Canadian man who was very proud of cooking for his wife every day—his specialty was spaghetti. To be more specific, his specialty was mixing Ragu with spaghetti noodles.
Blogger posts, “What’s sad isn’t children who lost their parents, but children who are continuously harmed by their parents.”
Blogger posts trailer to documentary, “His description is that it was like the sound of someone chopping apart cuts of ribs. There were 50 knife wounds to her head alone. All her organs had been destroyed. Her stomach was swollen as though she was pregnant. Even the coroner said there were ‘countless injuries’. You can imagine how it looked.
This is domestic violence.
In all the sexual assault cases we have ever handled, so long as there is no direct evidence, they don’t admit they did anything. If there is direct evidence, they always say it was consensual. No exception.”
Nobody think that qualifies as murder.
Comments are giving her advice to not post the documentary as one big video, because it will get taken down by the government. Instead, she should separate out the stories in it into 3-minute long short packages, so that when some of them get deleted, others can survive and spread.
Lady finds out her dorm mate has Hep B, and they had been sharing nail clippers, food, and lipstick. Even though she knows it doesn’t spread by saliva, she’s still terrified. It’s only a couple more months until graduation. She got tested when she has surgery October last year, and she was fine then. Not sure if she has the vaccine. Asks people on the internet if she should be mad.
The debate about whether English should be removed as a required subject continues. One blogger reposts the top answer to the question, “Do you know the top reason English shouldn’t be removed as a required subject?” “It’ll become something like piano—something poor people can never afford to learn. And the result will be that poor people will have no way of obtaining high-paying jobs in finance, exporting, or IT, not to mention the opportunity to study overseas. This will only cause a further reduction in social mobility. Learning English is the first step to connecting with the wider world. Perhaps it is not helpful to some people, but it is nonetheless a hope for countless normal people. The lower your education, the less useful English is, but the further you study, the more essential it becomes. Language is necessary to making a connection.”
Journalist posts reports that men in rural areas are having trouble getting married. 65% of areas surveyed have more than 10% of men over 30 single. 21% of areas surveyed have more than 30% of men over 30 single. More interestingly, though, 50% of areas surveyed have 10% of women over 30 single, and 14% of areas surveyed have over 30% of women over 30 single.
Lady posts video of her 15-year-old son eating fried chicken, video gaming, and yelling swear words at her when she asks him to study. Internet responds that she clearly hasn’t been beating him nearly enough, and asks for ways to legally send him to prison for life, because he’s clearly done anyways.