It was difficult to tell if this was a parody or not given I'm not from china and my limited understanding of supply vs demand. I only noticed something was off when 100% of the emphasis was placed on looks. I'm waiting to see how long it'll take before the women in china figure out how to utilize the fact of the supply difference since there are by the hard data, necessarily more male losers than female losers over there. The ball is on their side of the court. Gotta figure out what to do with it.
@@blazearmoru regardless the person who made this video is spreading awareness of this issue china's 35 million extra chinese men would considered be leftover unable to find wives in the coming years. I suggest more foreign women interested in Asian men to travel to china rural provinces to find husbands.
@@matthewl5411 It is gonna be hard to predict what's going to happen but I agree with your predictions. However, the solutions portion is a bit iffy if dating site statistics have any accuracy regarding preferences. I think it's gonna be fucked for a generation or two until the numbers even out again.
truck Bitsy cause women are important to the world without women there would not be children to grow up and now men are gonna be single forever it’s there own fault because they wanted men 🤷♀️
Of course you did because this is just a feminist revenge video which reverses the fact that there are more leftover women in China than leftover men. A man has a chance marrying at any age, but a leftover woman has a poor chance. I'm glad this video satisfied your feminist frustration, but it isn't real.
@@cannonball666 I didn't expect that response at all. I truly enjoyed it because I found it genuinely funny. Nothing "feminist" about that either. The term leftover woman does not even conjure up anything bad for me when it is said, simply because there is no such thing as a leftover person. Just a bunch of older people pressuring women and men to do things at earlier stages in their lives. Its a shame you do not know me, but I am one of the few women who is increasingly concerned that we are leaving the male child behind in terms of opportunities and development. I don't identify as feminist, just human.
Except the video is about “leftover women”, where in chinese culture a highly educated man a bad thing? Same for the age, when was being 35 for a man a problem? You should take the deeper meaning of the video, not just the obvious one. It is truly about criticizing the leftover tendency in China, being it for men or women.
I'm a leftover man. I get pressured by my friends and family. I watched many videos of the thing about "gold diggers" that it's easy to find someone if you have money. I really doubt gold diggers exists because no women was interested in my money. People are more complicated now. They are picky what they want. Before maybe in the 1900s people accept people more.
Living in China, being a foreigner, I've been dating a Chinese guy recently. He was 26, and I am 21. He told me about how desesperated his parents were about him being still single. He told me they put a lot of pressure on him to get married. This, and the fact he was constantly talking to his parents about me, showing me during video calls made me so inconfortable that I broke up with him, because I did not know if he really wanted to be with me, or dating a white European girl with the prospect of getting married. This is part of chinese society and I wish it would be different....
welcome to Chinese society where parents are happier if their children are married (regardless if it is an unhappy or abusive or just a financially doomed marriage) compared to if their children are happy. And they wonder why chinese prefer whites, they want to get out of this tradition using white freedom as an excuse.
I understood straightaway the shift but I had to pause everytime to consider and vizualize how it is in real world. Just to say I could not follow smoothly because the reverse is so hard to imagine.
@@aimless-drifter yeah well, it's complex. In reality, there's more social pressure on women to marry, while the pitiful ones aren't actually older unmarried women, but older unmarried men in rural areas without an education, who would never even get a chance of finding themselves a young educated wife who earns her own money
It's not that hard to imagine, it will be even worse for man, as men more forgiving and have more mercy. When couple gets divorced, even when wife cheated, husband leaves her house willingly, and doesnt try to destroy her life completly and push her to commit suicide... where as wemen, even if they cheated, they still hate their husband even though he was loyal and loving. Saw couple of those, and took me 8 years of relationship to finaly get married. Shes good wife, and probs will not cheat but still, if she does, ill be ruined in every aspect of my life. Im my country, divorce is almost a sentace to death or slavery... its fucked up....
You mean the reverse of the real truth? It took me 5 seconds to see the writer said "hey, we'll just transpose positions in the real dating scene. That should really please our leftover women viewers"
This is hilarious. I have a friend from China. He once told me that's how they've always treated women. This parody is awesome. China's obsession with only having sons and treating women like trophies or just plain second class citizens is coming to an end in some places. Unfortunately some men have been stealing women from Vietnam in increasing numbers to sell as wives. This is what happens when you sell all your female children through adoption to the point of unsustainability. Too bad many men still view women in the same way as they have always done.
But the thing is they wouldn't marry these women and the women wouldn't marry them. Unfortunately, everyone's standards are too high and they end up alone.
@@jyashin whatever, isn't it still pretty ironic how they spin a story about leftover women, when actually they just hope it drives women to marry all those leftover men?
@@WindspriteM They? Who are you referring to? The makers of this video? It's a simple gender-flip, while not particularly amusing in Chinese culture, is indeed a tool sometimes used in Western culture. There's an entire channel called "The Flip Side" where they have gender role swap for everything.
So many lucky men in China, in Europe countries people after 30-40 have 2-3 divorce and then they realize alone is the best way to live freely and happily.
It's contrary in my country, unmarried women over 30 is problem here in my country, but for men, even in 50+ as long as his wallet never empty, all is good 😂
As a dude, I would take this deal. All I have to do is get muscles and learn to cook? Okay! Wifey can go sit in an office, get yelled at by her boss, endure meetings, long commutes, and paperwork, be passed over for promotions, and be overworked and underpaid while I sit at home and claim half her net worth.
IF ANYONE UNFORTURNATELY REACH MY AGE. YOU'LL REALISE IT'S REALLY NOT THAT HORROBLE. OR MAYBE CUZ I'M LIVING IN SHANGHAI. PAREENTS MUCH MORE OK WITH NOT GETTING MARRIED "IN TIME". ONLY PROBLEM IS REALLY NOT MANY FRIENDS LEFT TO STILL PLAYING TOGETHER...SAD!
Awesome. This is actually a film of sarcasm. With men and women exchanging their position in the marriage topic, the show points out the ridiculous part of the reality. “Why should women no longer young be described as leftover”. Plus, high education shall never be the signal of too agressive, while gold-digger shouldn’t be the solely vital property of your life partner.
Really appreciated this witty & biting commentary on the perspective of how being "leftover" can truly affect one's future love prospects in China. When you think about how in the US, a lot of us on the coastal sides of the country couldn't even imagine getting married before hitting 30, where as across an ocean there are people terrified of what that'll mean for their romantic future long term. Really enjoying these tongue-in-cheek philosophical observations from you guys =) It's an awesome way to help viewers learn more about contemporary and longstanding Chinese culture, without it being a "this way sucks / this way is better" contest
It’s not a Chinese thing. It a global thing. Older, richer men will go after younger females; and younger females will seek men that are higher status than them. It’s the same anywhere in the world. In China however, there are more single men than the entire population of Canada. So there are LITERAL leftover men. If you are an unmarried Chinese woman after 30, it’s kind of on you, since there’s such a huge deficit.
cannonball666 nobody is expecting the reality to be turned around you idiot. This is a satire. You are obviously too dense to understand. Stop leaving the same comments everywhere.
Hi, I’m from Japan. 30 year-old men are too old😲❓ I think we used to have that kind of trend, “Leftover men or women”. But now we have the world’s highest single rates in Japan. Being single is becoming a chice, and marriage isn’t something we have to do just because many others get married. I’m a divorcée with a 19 yr-old son, but I don’t feel ashamed of myself. I think the time when we meet the right one differs person to person. Marriage isn’t something parents should force their kids to. I feel so sorry for Chinese ppl😭💦💦 I can be more relaxed about it..
lynth 对对💦💦 Single rate → low birth rate. But we just can’t find mates, and some world rather stay 独身貴族. So it’s about time Japan accepted more immigrants.
Well the joke here is about the women. They are talking about the 30-and-single men while it really is a commentary about how Chinese society view 30-and-single women.
@@IzumiKaya you're from Japan. I have a proposal to make, since china has 35 million extra leftover chinese men. I suggest japan to accept some of them e.g. accept 50,000 to 200,000 chinese men each year i think it would help the birth rate people won't have to work longer hours. Now the issue is japanese men and chinese men have to overcome what happened in the past, i am sure some families just wouldn't like each other. Chinese and Japanese are both north east asian and look similar but have different facial features. The westerner's made up stereotype of all asians looking the same is false. Now imagine more men born from china have visas to travel to Japan for work on working visa. One of the criteria that has to be meet is their willingness of marrying Japanese women. Women in Japan would have more men to choose from. I think the younger generation of chinese men are more open in dating women of different ethnicities. I think some Japanese men would get mad about this, some would step up their effort in dating.
That was the purpose of the video. By turning the tables and making you feel uncomfortable so they can feel more comfortable. Because in the real world there are more leftover women than men in China.
Pretty sure most men would rather take an attractive 35 year old over an unattractive 25 year old. Also men don't mind if you're highly educated but if you get a masters degree and look down on all men with a masters or less then you're reducing your own dating pool by being overly educated, don't blame the men. Same with the financial situation, if you're a career woman earning a huge income and in the top 10% of people in earnings but expect your husband to earn more then you've just eliminated 90% of the population so you have your self to blame coz those guys in the top 10% are sort after by all the other girls and marriage ties them 1:1 with a woman so only 10% of women can be married to the top 10% of men.
So many articles about the left over women of China and other countries...making us feel bad, when it's actually the same thing for men. Hypocrisy at it's finest. Thats a great video.
Took me some time to understand that the roles are reversed. I always thought there much more left over men because you have more men than women in china.
Yes that's actually what's the case. More men than women. What the Chinese media constantly fuss about, is that educated women often don't marry, despite there being so many men the could just by mere statistics marry So there's a lot of pressure on women with degrees to marry. The thing is, there's basically a mismatch: not enough women in general, which means that uneducated men with little money get left out, because there's always a guy who can provide better for his wife and for more traditional-thinking women this can also be more logical. There's a huge double-standard here though, because everyone sees that it's just sad when a have-not can't even find love, but nobody respects a working woman's choice to live without a family, even though if a successful man who could easily find a wife doesn't marry, that's kind of accepted (though, gotta admit, not quite, because in China there is just so much expectations from elder relatives that they get to see grandkids, grandnephew and -nieces) In practice this may vary, because individuals may actually be nice and respectful to their family members and keep their mouths, but as a mood in Chinese society this kind of negging is a thing.
Are all Mamahuhu episodes part of the same continuity? Because if so, Norah changed her name from Lily shortly after upstaging her Canadian English teacher, whom she later started and subsequently ended a relationship with because he wasn’t willing to wear a gimp mask, all before starting a successful company and turning into Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Shanghai doppelgänger. Basically, she’s the most powerful superhero in the Mamahuhu cinematic universe (MMHHCU).
我觉得就很不公平，如果从来就不找呢？Then in those parties, I will have to behave differently such as never showing any interest so that people know I’m not in their game. So that I will avoid being unfairly judged. So that I will always win. Like always, the same plan I adopted since my childhood.
ha ha ha 小鲜肉, that part cracked me up. But this is the age of 剩男 all over the world, money and a flashy job doesn't work anymore. Women Can achieve that too, Now supporting her dreams, standing back if need, to let her develop, or inspire herself, and being more emotionally supportive is the way forward now. Plus having a Good ass helps 😜
Men are more often attracted to young and beautiful, women are more often attracted to mature and successful. I think that’s fine, but the term left over woman is still derogatory and unnecessary.
You don't understand how the marriage market seems to work. The things that make men and women attractive are different because of evolution. Men want young, beautiful, thin, childless, women with low body count. Women want older, rich, tall, educated, men who have lots of resources (house, cars, etc.). Women are valued by their looks while men are valued by their resources. A woman's looks declines as she ages while men's resources grow as he ages. Men and women are on different standards.
This video is actually about leftover women. But they make role reversal here where the men taking women's position and vice versa. How did I know that? Ask yourself, since when women in China need to display their wealth, education, salary to attract future husband? It's awkward for men to reveal their age and show their looks to attract future wife? This video is a sarcasm of leftover women
Haha this title confused me! I wrote my dissertation on leftover men or ‘bare branches’ as it’s actually a legit thing in rural China where the men without money will never marry
I went to China in November/December 2018 and we saw the woman advertisement at the Park next to Tiananmen Square. I didn't believe what that was. Crazy....
For the first time watching you guys, I felt really kinda sad. I mean the problem do exist in Chinese society, and due to gender imbalance it would only get worse. Also the term leftover man or woman has to be forgotten. Therefore a great video.
I completely took this video seriously until I saw some of the comments. I was gonna say, "All those poor baby girls were aborted for the one-child policy and now they've got a shortage of women." Nevermind...?
Meanwhile, overseas chinese in malaysia has the exact role reversal. The older the single guy, the higher value he is, due to his maturity and financial stability. However, the older the lady, the harder she will be able to find a boyfriend, due to difficulty to give birth after 35 years old
Dude, this is normal lol It’s how EVERY country worked for forever. China is special right now because of one child policy and too many men. The ladies have all the power there now.
A lot of women those days are overpowered and manipulative than ever before. It’s just annoying to see them demanding men to have this stuff, that stuff and so on. If there are Less simps for feeding those women, we will have a better world to live 101%.
You guys are giving this waaaayy too much credit, she doing good, but not like amazingly good, there are been better actors out there and because of all the overhyped compliments I'm giving this a thumps down
that means it is hopeless for me to find a wife in China. I am 43 years old, single never married, no kids, BA in Political Science, works as an English teacher, and all i have that a lady might want is I know how to cook.
@@xiaohutang5666 yeah in reality it is also true for chinese men that have too much education. Focus on careers too much and not so much time and effort in finding a mate to make babies, it would eventually make a person go insane and they wonder whats wrong with them. Either most girls near his age group are taken from gender imbalance, the guy always work no time to find partner which is happening in japan (government is doing something about it) its improving a bit. Men also desire to start having kids, if cannot achieve it some men go psycho. Applies to women as well.
I thought this video would focus on the real leftover men... unbeknownst to many, it is a real social issue that affects mostly Chinese men from the poor lower classes who stay in the rural areas, while Chinese women tend to migrate to the cities, therefore, without the possibility of finding a wife.
Misleading title. Instead, the video focuses on the "leftover" *women* , who can't find a husband (in the cities, I guess). It's a real social issue too.
As someone who's not from China I find it really hard to idetify what in this video is serious. Is this an actual issue? Does it mainly apply to men or is it supposed to be a role reversal thing?
I think it's a role reversal. The attitude in china towards left over women is basically what this video is parodying, by switching the women with men.
@@TheXeeman Exactly, if women decide to go for an education and a career instead of an early family, for some stupid reason they risk getting passed over...
*What do these men bring to the table? Let's explore!* Can he even make a family? No, he wants to work through his 30s, before thinking about it. Can he cook for you? No. That's offensive to even ask. Will he clean? No. He's messy and prefers to spend $ on a maid each week.(also, see above) Is he even interested in raising children? No, not really. He's talked about out-sourcing that(daycare) Is he kind and agreeable? No. He's constantly depressed and currently on hed-meds. Is he a provider? No. His plan is to work till 36, then marry a wealthy woman to pay his way. *
Absolutely hilarious! I have a Chinese friend, 30, attractive and intelligent, whose mom is worried will be leftover. If she gets back to the US, I figure the guys will follow her like baby ducks!
yeah, kind of like this also the actual truth, because it's statistically more likely that men don't even have a choice whether they find someone to marry ._. I always think, what are the Chinese media thinking, when they're promoting the leftover women bullshit, it's just harassment that won't help the men either, it just strains women who might have actually considered still finding someone but don't want to deal with the bs anymore
First thought this was addressing how the gender ratio of China's population has affected the culture, dating and society. By 3:47 I thought it was odd how the things to know about the man (age, attractiveness and cooking ability) and things to know about the woman (education, career, car, etc.) was a reverse on what is in the West. Then I started to read the comments and now I don't know what the satire is per say. I'm guessing this had simply been a gender swap. If anyone would like to explain it, I'd be happy to read it.
Yeah... It's unfair how men value women based their age and beauty It's also unfair how women value men based on their utility, which pretty much us the size of their wallet. It seems to me that both sides view the other side as unfair... It's kind of fair game. 😂
Remember to turn on the subtitles (CC) for this one!
It was difficult to tell if this was a parody or not given I'm not from china and my limited understanding of supply vs demand. I only noticed something was off when 100% of the emphasis was placed on looks. I'm waiting to see how long it'll take before the women in china figure out how to utilize the fact of the supply difference since there are by the hard data, necessarily more male losers than female losers over there. The ball is on their side of the court. Gotta figure out what to do with it.
@@blazearmoru regardless the person who made this video is spreading awareness of this issue china's 35 million extra chinese men would considered be leftover unable to find wives in the coming years. I suggest more foreign women interested in Asian men to travel to china rural provinces to find husbands.
@@matthewl5411 It is gonna be hard to predict what's going to happen but I agree with your predictions. However, the solutions portion is a bit iffy if dating site statistics have any accuracy regarding preferences. I think it's gonna be fucked for a generation or two until the numbers even out again.
blaze armoru the women choose to be “leftovers.” A lot of the men do not have a choice; there’s a 35 million surplus of them.
@@ericp1139 oh fuck. You dropping the pills so red, they may as well be black.
Legend has it Norah is still holding the wine glass
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Or something that is AA Eneloop operated. 😉😂
truck Bitsy cause women are important to the world without women there would not be children to grow up and now men are gonna be single forever it’s there own fault because they wanted men 🤷♀️
@@Jessica-pq7me Not with MGTOW rising. 😉
You know she’s a good actor when you hate that girl and her sly expressions
truck Bitsy they finna die alone 😂
“If she bankrupts him, I become the biggest shareholder” 哈哈哈哈
That was a good joke.
@@truckbull6076 you mean the men who started wars for thousand of years and almost nuked the planet?
As a "leftover woman", I truly enjoyed that.
emi62507 Funny thing is, that this is what we should be expecting with more men in China after One Child Policy.
Of course you did because this is just a feminist revenge video which reverses the fact that there are more leftover women in China than leftover men. A man has a chance marrying at any age, but a leftover woman has a poor chance. I'm glad this video satisfied your feminist frustration, but it isn't real.
@@cannonball666 I didn't expect that response at all. I truly enjoyed it because I found it genuinely funny. Nothing "feminist" about that either. The term leftover woman does not even conjure up anything bad for me when it is said, simply because there is no such thing as a leftover person. Just a bunch of older people pressuring women and men to do things at earlier stages in their lives.
Its a shame you do not know me, but I am one of the few women who is increasingly concerned that we are leaving the male child behind in terms of opportunities and development. I don't identify as feminist, just human.
Except the video is about “leftover women”, where in chinese culture a highly educated man a bad thing? Same for the age, when was being 35 for a man a problem? You should take the deeper meaning of the video, not just the obvious one. It is truly about criticizing the leftover tendency in China, being it for men or women.
I'm a leftover man. I get pressured by my friends and family. I watched many videos of the thing about "gold diggers" that it's easy to find someone if you have money. I really doubt gold diggers exists because no women was interested in my money. People are more complicated now. They are picky what they want. Before maybe in the 1900s people accept people more.
shes gooooooooooooooooooooooood at acting lol love the last bankrupt line lol
Living in China, being a foreigner, I've been dating a Chinese guy recently. He was 26, and I am 21. He told me about how desesperated his parents were about him being still single. He told me they put a lot of pressure on him to get married. This, and the fact he was constantly talking to his parents about me, showing me during video calls made me so inconfortable that I broke up with him, because I did not know if he really wanted to be with me, or dating a white European girl with the prospect of getting married. This is part of chinese society and I wish it would be different....
welcome to Chinese society where parents are happier if their children are married (regardless if it is an unhappy or abusive or just a financially doomed marriage) compared to if their children are happy. And they wonder why chinese prefer whites, they want to get out of this tradition using white freedom as an excuse.
@@Maya-sv1pz its the first time i ever see someone write about white freedom. Marrying someone who is pale does not solve the problem.
taking quite some brain power to digest it. Awesome sarcasm!
It was obviously a reverse spin even from the beginning. Leftover women love it.
Hahaha it took me while I was so confused til like half through the video
I understood straightaway the shift but I had to pause everytime to consider and vizualize how it is in real world. Just to say I could not follow smoothly because the reverse is so hard to imagine.
OMG I watched the whole video without realizing it was satire, I really thought that that's how things are in China...
Aimless Drifter idk about China but it’s definitely the case in US.
@@aimless-drifter yeah well, it's complex.
In reality, there's more social pressure on women to marry, while the pitiful ones aren't actually older unmarried women, but older unmarried men in rural areas without an education, who would never even get a chance of finding themselves a young educated wife who earns her own money
It's not that hard to imagine, it will be even worse for man, as men more forgiving and have more mercy. When couple gets divorced, even when wife cheated, husband leaves her house willingly, and doesnt try to destroy her life completly and push her to commit suicide... where as wemen, even if they cheated, they still hate their husband even though he was loyal and loving. Saw couple of those, and took me 8 years of relationship to finaly get married. Shes good wife, and probs will not cheat but still, if she does, ill be ruined in every aspect of my life. Im my country, divorce is almost a sentace to death or slavery... its fucked up....
@@Geroskop may I ask where you are from?
Took me about 1:30 minutes to understand what’s going on here.
You mean the reverse of the real truth? It took me 5 seconds to see the writer said "hey, we'll just transpose positions in the real dating scene. That should really please our leftover women viewers"
It took me till 4:31 🤦🏻♂️
He took me a couple of minutes as well, and then I was like “I see what they’re doing!” Lmao 😂
@@cannonball666 I'm not a leftover woman and glad I don't live where that is a thing... no one should be treated that way.
@@cannonball666 There's nothing reverse here, if you learn math in school, you would probably know that this is the truth and not the reverse.
This is hilarious. I have a friend from China. He once told me that's how they've always treated women. This parody is awesome. China's obsession with only having sons and treating women like trophies or just plain second class citizens is coming to an end in some places. Unfortunately some men have been stealing women from Vietnam in increasing numbers to sell as wives. This is what happens when you sell all your female children through adoption to the point of unsustainability. Too bad many men still view women in the same way as they have always done.
Actually, there are way more leftover men than left over women in China, and their stories are truly sad ones 😔 no money, no house, no wife, no hope
They could always buy a Vietnamese virgin for 10k
The men aren't called "leftover men", they are called "bare branches". Leftover only applies to women.
But the thing is they wouldn't marry these women and the women wouldn't marry them. Unfortunately, everyone's standards are too high and they end up alone.
@@jyashin whatever, isn't it still pretty ironic how they spin a story about leftover women, when actually they just hope it drives women to marry all those leftover men?
@@WindspriteM They? Who are you referring to? The makers of this video? It's a simple gender-flip, while not particularly amusing in Chinese culture, is indeed a tool sometimes used in Western culture. There's an entire channel called "The Flip Side" where they have gender role swap for everything.
WAIT... WAIT...
this is a turnaround ?
...i was like: "wow, a place like this exists?"
I appreciate the subtle call back to the rent a girlfriend video
Brilliant. Role reversal. Who comes up with this? It's so good.
Except in real life, there are actually are more single men than women in China. There is a huge gender imbalance
syawkcab yet they seek for younger women who success less because of their fragile masculinity
Feminists, clearly.
So many lucky men in China, in Europe countries people after 30-40 have 2-3 divorce and then they realize alone is the best way to live freely and happily.
It's contrary in my country, unmarried women over 30 is problem here in my country, but for men, even in 50+ as long as his wallet never empty, all is good 😂
As a dude, I would take this deal. All I have to do is get muscles and learn to cook? Okay! Wifey can go sit in an office, get yelled at by her boss, endure meetings, long commutes, and paperwork, be passed over for promotions, and be overworked and underpaid while I sit at home and claim half her net worth.
AGE 37 STILL UNMARRIED PASSING THROUGH...
孙元佶 you're gay.
u will get it, there was a 50 year old guy marrying a 2x girl in china, both chinese..... she was my teacher
and the guy a ship captain
IF ANYONE UNFORTURNATELY REACH MY AGE. YOU'LL REALISE IT'S REALLY NOT THAT HORROBLE. OR MAYBE CUZ I'M LIVING IN SHANGHAI. PAREENTS MUCH MORE OK WITH NOT GETTING MARRIED "IN TIME". ONLY PROBLEM IS REALLY NOT MANY FRIENDS LEFT TO STILL PLAYING TOGETHER...SAD!
I see your 37 & unmarried and raise you a near 40 & formally single since age 20.
Awesome. This is actually a film of sarcasm. With men and women exchanging their position in the marriage topic, the show points out the ridiculous part of the reality. “Why should women no longer young be described as leftover”. Plus, high education shall never be the signal of too agressive, while gold-digger shouldn’t be the solely vital property of your life partner.
Really appreciated this witty & biting commentary on the perspective of how being "leftover" can truly affect one's future love prospects in China. When you think about how in the US, a lot of us on the coastal sides of the country couldn't even imagine getting married before hitting 30, where as across an ocean there are people terrified of what that'll mean for their romantic future long term. Really enjoying these tongue-in-cheek philosophical observations from you guys =) It's an awesome way to help viewers learn more about contemporary and longstanding Chinese culture, without it being a "this way sucks / this way is better" contest
It’s not a Chinese thing. It a global thing. Older, richer men will go after younger females; and younger females will seek men that are higher status than them. It’s the same anywhere in the world. In China however, there are more single men than the entire population of Canada. So there are LITERAL leftover men. If you are an unmarried Chinese woman after 30, it’s kind of on you, since there’s such a huge deficit.
I agree with this 100%
that's a bit oversimplified, isn't it?
Damn that's cold but funny and a good way to turn the tables
Turning the tables in a video doesn't effect reality. There always will be more leftover women than leftover men.
@@cannonball666 yeah, its not like if ur a woman u win the lottery, gotta be above average and hardworking
cannonball666 nobody is expecting the reality to be turned around you idiot. This is a satire. You are obviously too dense to understand. Stop leaving the same comments everywhere.
@@cannonball666 Dude you are being salty in every comment possible, honestly speaking I do not believe you would be committed
@@cannonball666 Maybe you know nothing about statistics
Not just a Chinese tradition. Also applies to Korean parents
Do they also have marriage markets in S.Korea?
Wasn't called "Little China" for nothing.
I was confused at first but then caught on to it when she talked about the marriage market.
Hi, I’m from Japan. 30 year-old men are too old😲❓ I think we used to have that kind of trend, “Leftover men or women”. But now we have the world’s highest single rates in Japan. Being single is becoming a chice, and marriage isn’t something we have to do just because many others get married. I’m a divorcée with a 19 yr-old son, but I don’t feel ashamed of myself. I think the time when we meet the right one differs person to person. Marriage isn’t something parents should force their kids to. I feel so sorry for Chinese ppl😭💦💦 I can be more relaxed about it..
In Japan, men have even bigger problems finding women, though. Marriage and birth rates in Japan are lower than in China. :/
lynth 对对💦💦 Single rate → low birth rate. But we just can’t find mates, and some world rather stay 独身貴族. So it’s about time Japan accepted more immigrants.
中国語で、聖闘士(セイント)と同じ発音、剩闘士(=結婚出来ない男)という単語がある。
Well the joke here is about the women. They are talking about the 30-and-single men while it really is a commentary about how Chinese society view 30-and-single women.
@@IzumiKaya you're from Japan. I have a proposal to make, since china has 35 million extra leftover chinese men. I suggest japan to accept some of them e.g. accept 50,000 to 200,000 chinese men each year i think it would help the birth rate people won't have to work longer hours. Now the issue is japanese men and chinese men have to overcome what happened in the past, i am sure some families just wouldn't like each other. Chinese and Japanese are both north east asian and look similar but have different facial features. The westerner's made up stereotype of all asians looking the same is false.
Now imagine more men born from china have visas to travel to Japan for work on working visa. One of the criteria that has to be meet is their willingness of marrying Japanese women. Women in Japan would have more men to choose from. I think the younger generation of chinese men are more open in dating women of different ethnicities. I think some Japanese men would get mad about this, some would step up their effort in dating.
"来来来 来喝酒来喝酒啊" is still haunting me 😨
Great video and acting guys, sarcasm on point!
Very fun video to watch, but afterwards, being a 29 turning 30 single man, ouch! shots fired, lol
Travel to countries with more women perhaps. Have more foreign women travel to china perhaps.
winking was hidden at every second
This 'leftover' will obviously never work on a man. It will always be for ribs , though.
Ok I stopped at 2:43 because Nora is looking directly at the camera and I feel she is talking about me.
Now I feel very inadequate.
That was the purpose of the video. By turning the tables and making you feel uncomfortable so they can feel more comfortable. Because in the real world there are more leftover women than men in China.
@@cannonball666 no there are more leftover men, but did you actually mean it that way: more men than women ?
@@cannonball666 The purpose of the video is for entertainment but if you take this seriously, there're much more leftover men than women.
Pretty sure most men would rather take an attractive 35 year old over an unattractive 25 year old. Also men don't mind if you're highly educated but if you get a masters degree and look down on all men with a masters or less then you're reducing your own dating pool by being overly educated, don't blame the men.
Same with the financial situation, if you're a career woman earning a huge income and in the top 10% of people in earnings but expect your husband to earn more then you've just eliminated 90% of the population so you have your self to blame coz those guys in the top 10% are sort after by all the other girls and marriage ties them 1:1 with a woman so only 10% of women can be married to the top 10% of men.
"Too much education is not a good thing" just wtf? Lol
Ok so i worked all might and didn't get what they were doing till later. Lol
This is parody at its finest. I like how they let the audience to figure out what's going on their own.
So many articles about the left over women of China and other countries...making us feel bad, when it's actually the same thing for men. Hypocrisy at it's finest. Thats a great video.
Took me some time to understand that the roles are reversed. I always thought there much more left over men because you have more men than women in china.
Yes that's actually what's the case. More men than women.
What the Chinese media constantly fuss about, is that educated women often don't marry, despite there being so many men the could just by mere statistics marry
So there's a lot of pressure on women with degrees to marry.
The thing is, there's basically a mismatch: not enough women in general, which means that uneducated men with little money get left out, because there's always a guy who can provide better for his wife and for more traditional-thinking women this can also be more logical.
There's a huge double-standard here though, because everyone sees that it's just sad when a have-not can't even find love, but nobody respects a working woman's choice to live without a family, even though if a successful man who could easily find a wife doesn't marry, that's kind of accepted (though, gotta admit, not quite, because in China there is just so much expectations from elder relatives that they get to see grandkids, grandnephew and -nieces)
In practice this may vary, because individuals may actually be nice and respectful to their family members and keep their mouths, but as a mood in Chinese society this kind of negging is a thing.
At first, I thought the video would address that very real and serious problem. But nope, just going for the salty jokes.
Top Tier. Nora and sad old man, knocking it out of the park as always.
Are all Mamahuhu episodes part of the same continuity? Because if so, Norah changed her name from Lily shortly after upstaging her Canadian English teacher, whom she later started and subsequently ended a relationship with because he wasn’t willing to wear a gimp mask, all before starting a successful company and turning into Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Shanghai doppelgänger. Basically, she’s the most powerful superhero in the Mamahuhu cinematic universe (MMHHCU).
Everything’s connected.
Your cinematic transition is flawless! Great skill!
I'm a leftover married man.
This is my favorite Mamahuhu video yet!
The Chinese need to chill out and take life less seriously.
Mamahuhu as always great work. Always happy to see the notification
What's truly terrifying is that I honestly can't tell what's satire and what's humour anymore. Society is just changing WAY TOO FAST!
我觉得就很不公平，如果从来就不找呢？Then in those parties, I will have to behave differently such as never showing any interest so that people know I’m not in their game. So that I will avoid being unfairly judged. So that I will always win. Like always, the same plan I adopted since my childhood.
One of your best skits yet
I like the nod to the rent a boyfriend older video. Keep up the good work, you guys rock.
ha ha ha 小鲜肉, that part cracked me up. But this is the age of 剩男 all over the world, money and a flashy job doesn't work anymore. Women Can achieve that too, Now supporting her dreams, standing back if need, to let her develop, or inspire herself, and being more emotionally supportive is the way forward now. Plus having a Good ass helps 😜
Looking at all the offended comments, you know that there are really double standard when the table was flipped.
awesome skits, also love how it lied out, reminds me of House of Cards. Keep up with the great work!
Men are more often attracted to young and beautiful, women are more often attracted to mature and successful. I think that’s fine, but the term left over woman is still derogatory and unnecessary.
I can feel the fear now. 20s no job, no home, fat. Gotta quit RUclips.
Exercise and most importantly change your diet.
Great job - Norah is so fun, as usual. Glad 1983 showed up in this short - I’m starting to crush!!
You don't understand how the marriage market seems to work. The things that make men and women attractive are different because of evolution. Men want young, beautiful, thin, childless, women with low body count. Women want older, rich, tall, educated, men who have lots of resources (house, cars, etc.). Women are valued by their looks while men are valued by their resources. A woman's looks declines as she ages while men's resources grow as he ages. Men and women are on different standards.
oh this is such a good parody. I love this.
This video is actually about leftover women. But they make role reversal here where the men taking women's position and vice versa.
How did I know that?
Ask yourself, since when women in China need to display their wealth, education, salary to attract future husband?
It's awkward for men to reveal their age and show their looks to attract future wife?
This video is a sarcasm of leftover women
Awesome video! So glad I'm subscribed
Wow this was quite interesting. I have heard of this but I didn't think think it was that bad but now I know how bad it is.
Haha this title confused me! I wrote my dissertation on leftover men or ‘bare branches’ as it’s actually a legit thing in rural China where the men without money will never marry
I went to China in November/December 2018 and we saw the woman advertisement at the Park next to Tiananmen Square. I didn't believe what that was. Crazy....
Great production, pls keep it going, views eventually will catch up
I'm so thankful I live in Canada like that person at 3:56! 😭
I love all the videos on this channel but I just keep coming back to this one specifically 😍 My absolute favorite!
OMG the guy from the subway in one of the other videos!
For the first time watching you guys, I felt really kinda sad. I mean the problem do exist in Chinese society, and due to gender imbalance it would only get worse. Also the term leftover man or woman has to be forgotten. Therefore a great video.
I completely took this video seriously until I saw some of the comments. I was gonna say, "All those poor baby girls were aborted for the one-child policy and now they've got a shortage of women." Nevermind...?
Too good!
Oh snap. Still relevant in 2019.
This is high quality content
Meanwhile, overseas chinese in malaysia has the exact role reversal.
The older the single guy, the higher value he is, due to his maturity and financial stability.
However, the older the lady, the harder she will be able to find a boyfriend, due to difficulty to give birth after 35 years old
I think it’s a parody of the “left over” women of mainland china :v
Dude, this is normal lol It’s how EVERY country worked for forever. China is special right now because of one child policy and too many men. The ladies have all the power there now.
@@nykidxxx although u r right, but i am talking about my malaysian chinese culture
A lot of women those days are overpowered and manipulative than ever before. It’s just annoying to see them demanding men to have this stuff, that stuff and so on. If there are Less simps for feeding those women, we will have a better world to live 101%.
Gotta be that guy and ask which song is playing in the background at the start of the video, I was really feeling it. Match me with that song!! Haha.
Don’t why RUclips recommend me this. But like the video. Luckily I am married with 3kids haha.
Lol women's fertility is always dropping as they age so that is the reason. I don't get why women can't understand this.
Hmm is she possibly being sarcastic? I can’t tell! It’s so subtle!
Seriously tho, love this humor and message!
Some things are easier for men, some things are easier for women. Women should not be envious of men.
The funny thing about it is the fact that it's the truth :D love you guys
You guys are giving this waaaayy too much credit, she doing good, but not like amazingly good, there are been better actors out there and because of all the overhyped compliments I'm giving this a thumps down
That was a new thing to learn about. Thanks for great content as always
that means it is hopeless for me to find a wife in China. I am 43 years old, single never married, no kids, BA in Political Science, works as an English teacher, and all i have that a lady might want is I know how to cook.
4:11 he's my favorite mamahuhu crew 😂
I couldn't stop laughing. Excellent parody.
I like it, role reversal; sarcasm detected XDDDD
WAIT
WHAT ?!?!?
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"not good for guys to have too much education?" WHY
WHAT
why Asia?
Too much arguing. In reality dumb people argue the most.
it's a flip
@@xiaohutang5666 yeah in reality it is also true for chinese men that have too much education. Focus on careers too much and not so much time and effort in finding a mate to make babies, it would eventually make a person go insane and they wonder whats wrong with them. Either most girls near his age group are taken from gender imbalance, the guy always work no time to find partner which is happening in japan (government is doing something about it) its improving a bit.
Men also desire to start having kids, if cannot achieve it some men go psycho. Applies to women as well.
@IpilotAnEVA yeah there are people who choose to be childless.
I thought this video would focus on the real leftover men... unbeknownst to many, it is a real social issue that affects mostly Chinese men from the poor lower classes who stay in the rural areas, while Chinese women tend to migrate to the cities, therefore, without the possibility of finding a wife.
Misleading title. Instead, the video focuses on the "leftover" *women* , who can't find a husband (in the cities, I guess). It's a real social issue too.
This video perfectly shows how machist Chinese society is. The sarcasm is so strong I could barely handle it! But I love it!
sadly is still true ... I have multiple chinese woman coworkers multi master degree 4 zeroed salaries but above 25yo and then too old even to look at
Only realised this was a satire half way through lol
So those guys got to stay single?
Lucky bastards...
As someone who's not from China I find it really hard to idetify what in this video is serious. Is this an actual issue? Does it mainly apply to men or is it supposed to be a role reversal thing?
I think it's a role reversal. The attitude in china towards left over women is basically what this video is parodying, by switching the women with men.
@@TheXeeman Exactly, if women decide to go for an education and a career instead of an early family, for some stupid reason they risk getting passed over...
I met my wife (who is Chinese) at the bank. Been together 9 years. This is scary.
*What do these men bring to the table? Let's explore!*
Can he even make a family? No, he wants to work through his 30s, before thinking about it.
Can he cook for you? No. That's offensive to even ask.
Will he clean? No. He's messy and prefers to spend $ on a maid each week.(also, see above)
Is he even interested in raising children? No, not really. He's talked about out-sourcing that(daycare)
Is he kind and agreeable? No. He's constantly depressed and currently on hed-meds.
Is he a provider? No. His plan is to work till 36, then marry a wealthy woman to pay his way.
*
Really their parents matchmaking their kids through reading a paper. No wonder so many unhappy kids and couples in those places
Absolutely hilarious! I have a Chinese friend, 30, attractive and intelligent, whose mom is worried will be leftover. If she gets back to the US, I figure the guys will follow her like baby ducks!
I loved this so much, couldn't stop watching and rolling my eyes 😂🤢
As a leftover 35 handsome man, I feel really sad after watching this.😤😤
Maya Christensen thanks man
Come to other countries where asian men are rare . You'll be seen as exotic and women will be attracted to you because you stand out .
E 😘😘good advice
yeah, kind of like this also the actual truth, because it's statistically more likely that men don't even have a choice whether they find someone to marry ._.
I always think, what are the Chinese media thinking, when they're promoting the leftover women bullshit, it's just harassment that won't help the men either, it just strains women who might have actually considered still finding someone but don't want to deal with the bs anymore
Mulan you're clever
I know this is a parody but it's great being single, have freedom and money. I can stay out till 4am to party or work on my car
First thought this was addressing how the gender ratio of China's population has affected the culture, dating and society.
By 3:47 I thought it was odd how the things to know about the man (age, attractiveness and cooking ability) and things to know about the woman (education, career, car, etc.) was a reverse on what is in the West.
Then I started to read the comments and now I don't know what the satire is per say.
I'm guessing this had simply been a gender swap. If anyone would like to explain it, I'd be happy to read it.
Yeah... It's unfair how men value women based their age and beauty
It's also unfair how women value men based on their utility, which pretty much us the size of their wallet.
It seems to me that both sides view the other side as unfair... It's kind of fair game. 😂
Great video, loving the commentary! So funny but true.