Neglected wife: 1, Neglectful husband: 0
Written By: Due-East on June 15, 2007
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 “Where have you been, dear?” |
| It’s an age-old conflict between married men and their wives. Guys want more independence from their wives, time to hang out with their buddies and do “guy stuff”, and women want more attention from their husbands, a sympathetic ear and maybe some spooning. But, like the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, it rages on with no hope of an end in sight. Except for maybe one couple… |
| A Hainan woman surnamed Huang (黄) has found a creative, if somewhat extreme, way of getting some more attention from her husband. Rather than doing the typical nagging that so many wives do to get their husbands to stop going out and eating and drinking with their buddies so much, she’s decided to shave her head. Now, in America this kind of thing would give a husband more reason not to want to spend time with his wife (“Dude, I tell you. My wife is crazy! She shaved her head”…takes another sip of his beer), but in China it’s pretty clever. Apparently, it’s a pretty big deal for your wife to come with you to business-related social events if you’re a Chinese business man. Maybe it has something to do with the all-important concept of “face”. But nobody wants to take his shaved-headed wife to a social event, though, because it would make him look bad. So she shaved her head and says she won’t let her hair grow back until he changes his ways and spends more time with her. Genius! I’m betting his buddies will be eating and drinking with one less person pretty fast. |
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