"My time as a fake boyfriend to China's 'leftover women'"

[The Straight Story]

As Chinese women face stigma for remaining unmarried past their late 20s, the boyfriends for rent business is booming.

Celia is in her late 20s, has a career and is unmarried. That sounds completely normal, doesn't it?

But many Chinese do not see it that way. In their eyes, women should be wed by their late 20s.

Those who aren't, like Celia, are branded "sheng nu" or "leftover women".

And it isn't only the older generation that thinks that way.



http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2016/05/time-fake-boyfriend-china-leftover-women-160519121232031.html

[No Vested Interest]

1. I thought there was a shortage of marriageable women in China, due to

the one-child policy in effect for so many years and only recently loosened.
During that time, parents preferred a male child, so girls were frequently aborted or abandoned when born.

[The Straight Story]

2. There is an imbalance:

696,340,752 men
644,994,400 women

and in the US:
153,139,563 men
157,244,385 women

http://www.geohive.com/earth/pop_gender.aspx

But then there is age distribution and locations.

[Jesus Malverde]

3. In Japan - Christmas cake girl

Japan, a women over the age of 25 are often seen as used goods by Japanese men (Much like Christmas cake is "no good" after the 25th of December).

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=christmas%20cake%20girl

[Bonobo]

7. Yeah, 20 years ago, Jesus. That's pretty outdated. nt

[Jesus Malverde]

8. Maybe an old concept but one that's not gone away.

I trust if you say to a friend hey look at that desperate Christmas cake girl, your Japanese friends won't ask you what you mean by that.

[Bonobo]

9. They would say I'm an "Ossan" who is living in another world.

People in Japan don't get married until their 30 for the most part now.



And the numbers have risen since this which only shows up until 2004!

[Jesus Malverde]

10. And sad as it is, you are an ojisan

Or on the cusp 😜

Disappointed reading the clubs in Korea have a max age limit of 35.

[Bonobo]

11. Max age limit! OMG, that is mean!

But yeah I am WELL into ojisan age. Turning 50 next week.

[Liberal_in_LA]

4. Ugh.

[KT2000]

5. US - Spinsters & Old Maids!!

same diff!

[Monk06]

6. In Canada, Chicken Lady