Jeremy at Danwei alerts us to a blog of recent vintage called Fuck! (tagline: Could the men living in China get any more retarded? Here are the horror stories from the front lines). It's collectively authored by women writing under the name "Chinadirt," and if you're an Anglophone Beijinger of either gender, it'll certainly get you thinking. The writing's very good, the subject matter juicy and controversial, and the point of view--well, as far as I can tell, it's pretty much spot-on.
Let's face it: Beijing--hell, any city in China--tends to ruin men. Not just expat men but just about any man with a little spending power and too little will power. How many of us does that exempt? The loser-back-home is transformed into an Adonis by the adulation of the kang yang qiang contingent--Chinese women who "shoulder foreign rifles." It's hard not to lose your soul here. Temptations abound. Morals are very lax. One guy I knew who'd spent a couple of years in Chengdu told me that after he'd gone back to the States, he "couldn't walk past a barber pole without getting a hard-on."
I look forward to the reaction from men to the Fuck! posts. My suspicion is that most of them will only make pigs of themselves and confirm the authors' opinions--as one "Ousted" already has in the comments to Jeremy's post.
Interesting subject. One of my Chinese female friends dated this chubby guy who is a totally loser from the states. (an English teacher in Beijing.)
How do you translate "nerd" in Chinese?
Posted by: Chubby | March 06, 2007 at 11:54 PM
Let's face it -- with all the foreign guys who come over here and lose control of all sphincters, it was only a matter of time until something like this came along. I just wish it were a bit better-written.
Posted by: Brendan | March 07, 2007 at 02:59 AM
Bitching, sex and China... is there a better combination of hot search terms?
I've yet to check it out - for reasons I can't put my finger on, a bunch of chicks whining is just not high on my "to read" list.
BTW: Kaiser... love the blog.
Posted by: The Humanaught | March 07, 2007 at 08:12 PM
Hey thanks Humanaught. Very kind of you. Of said bunch of chicks, I find they whine with admirable insight. Each to his own, though. Congrats on your wedding!
Posted by: Kaiser Kuo | March 08, 2007 at 01:06 AM
My foreign girlfriend tells me that everything in that blog is true. Then she kind of looked at me in a weird way that was quite unsettling.
Posted by: Meursault | March 08, 2007 at 02:44 PM
Dear Kaiser,
Um, the transformation into Adonis hasn't happened to me yet -what's wrong?! Should I be giving up the combover and instead spikey-gelling my hair? Please... I need to know.
Un-adonised in Beijing
Posted by: boyce | March 08, 2007 at 07:20 PM
Dear Boyce,
You think it's in the hair? No, no, dear Boyce. Adonisization happens irrespective of the 'do you sport. Try this: Enter the bar wearing that distinctive Caucasian musk--a bar where women of the kang yang qiang sort are reputed to congregate. No one knows bars better than you: remember that. Feign a cell phone conversation. Speak loudly into your very thin handset, using phrases like, "20,000 a square meter?" and "my Armani or my Hugo Boss?" Stuff your wallet full of neatly folded paper towels, and your crotch with crumpled ones. They'll never even notice your combover.
Posted by: Kaiser Kuo | March 08, 2007 at 07:45 PM
Dear Kaiser,
I think an Asian man's musk is trapped in my Caucasian man's body, er, you know what I mean. Anyway, I'll try your advice: Hugo and Armani, thin phone and high rent, and a fist full of paper towels in the Fruit of the Looms...
If it doesn't work, I'm bringing out the big gun: old Spice.
Tks, BB
Posted by: boyce | March 08, 2007 at 08:09 PM
Damn... so if I was a loser who couldn't get any action in my home country, what does it mean if I can't get any action here? There go what shreds are left of my shattered self-esteem...
nice blog, btw.
Cheers
Posted by: Shaan Khan | March 13, 2007 at 04:25 PM
I like reading China Dirt and just found this blog post after a google search because their site is down at the moment...
I'm a Western guy in Beijing and so have about a million wonderful girls to chose from. The number of decent men for Western women to choose from is about a hundredth of that - it's all just a numbers game.
I do feel a bit sorry for them for that and also due to the irony that they write to vent spleen on the loser men they attract only to get long pointless comments from... total losers.
Posted by: David D | March 22, 2007 at 04:05 PM
What a racist piece of shit blog. Jesus Christ!
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