From a young age, girls all over the world are told they need to grow up and find a suitable man to marry.
In China, especially, the pressure from parents for their daughters to get married is intense.
Skincare brand SK-II created a new documentary-style called “Marriage Market Takeover,” which shows how traditional attitudes towards marriage in China, can put extreme pressure on single women to find a husband.
There’s even a common derogatory term for older unmarried women in country, “Sheng Nu,” which literally translates to “leftover woman.” It refers to women over 25 who aren’t married yet.
One father in the documentary says, “If she can’t find the one, it will be a heart disease for me.”
“She’s just average looking.. not too pretty. That is why she is a leftover woman,” a mother theorizes about her daughter, while the daughter sat there fighting back tears.
People think that in Chinese society, an unmarried woman is incomplete.
In Shanghai, parents will post their sons’ and daughters’ profiles at “Marriage Markets” in hopes of finding them a suitable man.
They will qualify the man by his income, job, and if he owns a home and car- it’s basically like selling your daughter.
One day the parents were shocked to visit a matchmaking “Marriage Market” only to find self-affirming and powerful messages of independence from their daughters.
“I don’t want to get married for the sake of marriage. I won’t be happy that way,” one woman writes.
Another says, “I have a great career and there is another term called ‘power woman.'”
Slowly but surely the parents views seemed to soften and the single women stood empowered.
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[Featured Image Credit: YouTube- SK-II]
Heartfelt Commercial Empowers The Single, ‘Leftover’ Women Of China is an article from: LifeDaily