Post: #1

Don't ever complain about how hard it is to be a man here:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/10/busine...d=all&_r=0

Three miles away, in a Beijing park near the Temple of Heaven, a woman named Yu Jia jostled for space under a grove of elms. A widowed 67-year-old pensioner, she was clearing a spot on the ground for a sign she had scrawled for her son. “Seeking Marriage,” read the wrinkled sheet of paper, which Ms. Yu held in place with a few fragments of brick and stone. “Male. Single. Born 1972. Height 172 cm. High school education. Job in Beijing.”

Ms. Yu is another kind of love hunter: a parent seeking a spouse for an adult child in the so-called marriage markets that have popped up in parks across the city. Long rows of graying men and women sat in front of signs listing their children’s qualifications. Hundreds of others trudged by, stopping occasionally to make an inquiry.

Ms. Yu’s crude sign had no flourishes: no photograph, no blood type, no zodiac sign, no line about income or assets. Unlike the millionaire’s wish list, the sign didn’t even specify what sort of wife her son wanted. “We don’t have much choice,” she explained. “At this point, we can’t rule anybody out.”

In the four years she has been seeking a wife for her son, Zhao Yong, there have been only a handful of prospects. Even so, when a woman in a green plastic visor paused to scan her sign that day, Ms. Yu put on a bright smile and told of her son’s fine character and good looks. The woman asked: “Does he own an apartment in Beijing?” Ms. Yu’s smile wilted, and the woman moved on.


Ouch

Hundreds of millions of sexless, unmarriable men

Would rather be a fat poor white American man than an Asian guy

Post: #2

It only sucks because of the pedestalization of marriage also coming from men, apparently. A change of mindset and understanding of truth, and the things that matter and the things that don't is the only thing you need even in the "worst country to be a man".

Post: #3

(03-11-2013 11:12 AM)Kentucky Wrote:  Don't ever complain about how hard it is to be a man here:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/10/busine...d=all&_r=0

Three miles away, in a Beijing park near the Temple of Heaven, a woman named Yu Jia jostled for space under a grove of elms. A widowed 67-year-old pensioner, she was clearing a spot on the ground for a sign she had scrawled for her son. “Seeking Marriage,” read the wrinkled sheet of paper, which Ms. Yu held in place with a few fragments of brick and stone. “Male. Single. Born 1972. Height 172 cm. High school education. Job in Beijing.”

Ms. Yu is another kind of love hunter: a parent seeking a spouse for an adult child in the so-called marriage markets that have popped up in parks across the city. Long rows of graying men and women sat in front of signs listing their children’s qualifications. Hundreds of others trudged by, stopping occasionally to make an inquiry.

Ms. Yu’s crude sign had no flourishes: no photograph, no blood type, no zodiac sign, no line about income or assets. Unlike the millionaire’s wish list, the sign didn’t even specify what sort of wife her son wanted. “We don’t have much choice,” she explained. “At this point, we can’t rule anybody out.”

In the four years she has been seeking a wife for her son, Zhao Yong, there have been only a handful of prospects. Even so, when a woman in a green plastic visor paused to scan her sign that day, Ms. Yu put on a bright smile and told of her son’s fine character and good looks. The woman asked: “Does he own an apartment in Beijing?” Ms. Yu’s smile wilted, and the woman moved on.


Ouch

Hundreds of millions of sexless, unmarriable men

Would rather be a fat poor white American man than an Asian guy

I get your point, but I think you meant to say a Chinese dude. In most of Asia outside of India and China, the sex ratios are a lot more balanced and the women still very traditional and feminism is much weaker than the US of A. Trust me, the average poor filipino, korean, thai, and non beta japanese dude is laying pipe in his country and doesnt have to deal with the fat chicks and bad attitudes that are common here.

Post: #4

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Post: #5

Worst country to be a man? The Anglosphere followed very closely by India. Any other candidates that come close to these?

Post: #6

Wait, you put the Anglosphere BEFORE India?? Shit is bad in the anglosphere, but not INDIA bad.

My list of the worst:

1. India
2. China
3. (insert country)

Post: #7

(03-11-2013 07:54 PM)azulsombra Wrote:  

(03-11-2013 11:12 AM)Kentucky Wrote:  Don't ever complain about how hard it is to be a man here:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/10/busine...d=all&_r=0

Three miles away, in a Beijing park near the Temple of Heaven, a woman named Yu Jia jostled for space under a grove of elms. A widowed 67-year-old pensioner, she was clearing a spot on the ground for a sign she had scrawled for her son. “Seeking Marriage,” read the wrinkled sheet of paper, which Ms. Yu held in place with a few fragments of brick and stone. “Male. Single. Born 1972. Height 172 cm. High school education. Job in Beijing.”

Ms. Yu is another kind of love hunter: a parent seeking a spouse for an adult child in the so-called marriage markets that have popped up in parks across the city. Long rows of graying men and women sat in front of signs listing their children’s qualifications. Hundreds of others trudged by, stopping occasionally to make an inquiry.

Ms. Yu’s crude sign had no flourishes: no photograph, no blood type, no zodiac sign, no line about income or assets. Unlike the millionaire’s wish list, the sign didn’t even specify what sort of wife her son wanted. “We don’t have much choice,” she explained. “At this point, we can’t rule anybody out.”

In the four years she has been seeking a wife for her son, Zhao Yong, there have been only a handful of prospects. Even so, when a woman in a green plastic visor paused to scan her sign that day, Ms. Yu put on a bright smile and told of her son’s fine character and good looks. The woman asked: “Does he own an apartment in Beijing?” Ms. Yu’s smile wilted, and the woman moved on.


Ouch

Hundreds of millions of sexless, unmarriable men

Would rather be a fat poor white American man than an Asian guy

I get your point, but I think you meant to say a Chinese dude. In most of Asia outside of India and China, the sex ratios are a lot more balanced and the women still very traditional and feminism is much weaker than the US of A. Trust me, the average poor filipino, korean, thai, and non beta japanese dude is laying pipe in his country and doesnt have to deal with the fat chicks and bad attitudes that are common here.

I don't know what it's like now but Vietnam used to be one of those places where there was a much higher female to male ratio. Foreign guys swooping up chicks were not really perceived as "bad" as they apparently treated women there more respectively than a lot of the local players.

Post: #8

Looks like the dude is packing the mom game.

Post: #9

This is the result of their "one child" policy. Families want sons and women abort if ultrasound shows they have a girl. So, they have too many dudes in China.

Post: #10

China would only suck as a man if:

a) you're a Chinese man
b) broke/peasant

If you're a foreigner white, latino/mediteranean or even black doesn't matter, it's a veritable Pussy Paradise IF you live there. Now if you also happen to have some paper and a business while living there, then it's Disney Land/Disney World and Alice in Wonderland of poon combined.

(03-11-2013 08:23 PM)azulsombra Wrote:  Wait, you put the Anglosphere BEFORE India?? Shit is bad in the anglosphere, but not INDIA bad.

My list of the worst:

1. India
2. China
3. (insert country)

Post: #11

i love how you say china would ONLY suck if you were a chinese man. put it in perspective and this is really such a minor factor in the gender dynamics of a country home to some 700m+ chinese men lol.

Post: #12

feminism in china sounds pretty different than here.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/12/opinio....html?_r=0

The Women’s Federation comes to the rescue, with the headline, “Faced With A Marital Crisis, Women Need to Improve Themselves”:

"When you find out that he is having an affair, you may be in a towering rage, but you must know that if you make a fuss, you are denying the man “face” ... No man is capable of spending a lifetime being loyal to an outmoded wife who never changes ... Try changing your hairstyle or your fashion. Women must constantly change for the better.

In short, it’s the woman’s fault for refusing to get married, and once she is married, it’s the woman’s fault if her husband has an affair. Of course."

Post: #13

another good article.

funny how the govt actually calls them 'leftovers' if they're 27 and unmarried. red flag, red pill.

from the article.

"China's All-China Women’s Federation, a group founded in 1949 by the Communist Party to protect women's rights, has this great advice on its website:
Pretty girls don’t need a lot of education to marry into a rich and powerful family, but girls with an average or ugly appearance will find it difficult. These kinds of girls hope to further their education in order to increase their competitiveness. The tragedy is, they don’t realize that as women age, they are worth less and less, so by the time they get their M.A. or Ph.D., they are already old, like yellowed pearls."


Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/chinas-le...z2GoNDxm12
http://www.businessinsider.com/chinas-le...ood-2013-1