Eric Siu explores cultural double standards in Chinese society, where unmarried women face stigma as "leftover women" while men's value isn't tied to marital status. The conversation examines how age expectations differ by gender and why divorce might be preferable to staying in unhappy marriages.
In Chinese culture, if you're over 30 and you're not married, you're called a single, which means you're leftover women.
It's over 30. I thought it was over like 26. It's they're raising the age.
Well, I mean, maybe over 26, but by the time you're 30, you're like basically like you know versus like if you're a guy, you're over 30 that you're like you're called to some form of like hidden gold or hidden gem. Oh, nice. Yeah.
Yeah, there's definitely some double standards when it comes to men and women in the sexual marketplace. Unfortunately. Yeah, they're never going to go away though. We should just sort of accept them now. What you were getting at has some truth to it. Like, I don't want to go back to the days where I had no choice and it was just like the 2 women in my village and the divorce wasn't possible no matter how bad the relationship got. And that's just what you had to do to make do with your lives. Like, that doesn't sound very fun or nice or satisfying to me.
