wat would u do if ur bf/husband/ect sayed that?
iv lef this cruel world behind
an iv found my pece of mind
i dont feel no pain no more
You have to understand not only the time in which this took place but the culture. Many Chinese people lived by a combination of Taoism and the dictates of Confucius. Although the husband was supposed to reign supreme in the house, it was often the wife who had the actual responsibility to run the household. You see some of this in the scene with Lindo's unfortunate marriage, where Mrs. Huang is in charge. In this situation, until she had a son, the daughter-in-law was nowhere, like a slave. And in many cases this was true. But these things were not uniform or constant, and by the time Lindo was born in the 1920s, many things had changed. China is not one culture, it is many cultures. The book explains many things further, and you should also read some actual histories of China.
shareI'd laugh my head off. Then he would laugh because it's so ridiculous.
My ex-husband tried to pull that crap with me. That's why he's an ex, and I've had a happy marrige with my life-partner husband for over 30 years, while my ex has been divorced 3 times and is now single and too pathetic to find a 4th wife.
Amy Tan made this up to depict Asian men as these evil sexist misogynists. Anyone who knows a Chinese family well knows how the wife/mom bosses the husband and kids - they have absolute power in the family. Asian feminists who buy into Amy Tan's crap propaganda abandon Asian culture, and flee to specifically White men under 'White Knight' syndrome. White men suppressed women as well, would use them as marriage objects for political alliances, and even to this day there are more stay-at-home moms per capita in the US than in China.
Some Asian women who have self-hate and a White fetish, like to bash Asian men to mask their true intentions, which is to be a complete sell-out. They are easy to spot, because they do not consider American men of any other race, only White men (like Amy Tan and Lucy Liu).
I enjoy staying at home. Not having to get up at 5:30 a.m. to fight traffic, being able to do what I want to do all day--I certainly don't feel oppressed.
Fighting rush-hour traffic, working for people I know I'm smarter than, barely getting home in time to see my family for a couple of hours before falling into bed so I can do it all over again in the morning--that, to me, is oppression.
Totally agree. I'm a stay at home mom too and very lucky to be. In this area a lot of the women I know would love to be but our town sucks and there are very few well paying jobs. Intead of opression I feel like I have a lot more freedom to my day than other friends of mine who have to constantly punch a clock.
shareChrist, you bought the ticket on this issue haven't you?
share
Huh? Not to sound dumb but what do you mean?
http://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=24109349
If they were joking, of course I'd laugh.
If he was serious...I'd throw a stilleto at his face.
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Fall out from all the laughter.
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