MrMan wrote: ↑August 12th, 2024, 10:50 pm
I really don't get this.
There are a lot more marrying-age men than women in China. They show lots of women who are better-than-average looking to quite pretty. Maybe she wants a man as educated and successful as herself. You'd think a lot of men left without brides would want to wife her up just to get a woman.
The situation in Japan is quite similar compared to China, but not to such a huge difference between men and women.
In Japan the difference between the number of men and females is not so huge, distances between rural area and cities are much shorter and good streets, often these Japanese women have been married/divorced already, some with children and are more modest and are less demanding from men.
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It is true that in China there are about more than 33 million males than females, but this count is from birth up to death and not very informative.
You have to check out first of all, where are all these men and women located and you will find out soon, that the majority of single men of all age are living in rural areas which can be rather remote located - and the majority of females are living within larger cities.
As next step you have to check the age of these men and women - you will notice that the marrying-minded single men are mostly younger than 40 years old, and the marrying-minded single (left over) women are mostly older than 40.
You will see soon that the majority of 40+ Chinese men are either married but if still single they are looking for a female not older than 30 years old, and indeed, Chinese men who are still single or widower and available are only few...by far not so many as you might expect.
There are other unpleasant issues too in China - parents often interfere as their unmarried daughter is still living with them.
Another point is that by educational standard, women in the cities have a higher education level and often higher income than men living in rural areas....
In China still there is a big business going on with match making - marriage brokers - but such companies also acknowledge that to match these left-over women 40+ with men is a very difficult task. The main reason they mention is the fact that these women have unreasonable expectations because in the past they spent their life solely alone or with their parents who also show up with them and insist on various conditions.
This goes so far that even their parents are showing up together with their daughter for the first meeting, and in some excessive cases only the father or mother is showing up without their daughter for the first check....
However marriage is clearly a different situation than living alone or with parents as a 40+ spoiled daughter and even if those marriage brokers succeed to persuade to meet men interested in them, they always find a reason not to continue to meet them again just after the first meeting.
No compromise, no tolerance, no man is good enough for them.....
Even if a rich foreigner is showing up, their condition is that despite he is being rich etc. he must be an overseas Chinese, no other ethnicity is acceptable and so on...even if this foreigner is living in HongKong...
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Personally I have no compassion for these left-over women - these women are left-over because of choice and their unreasonable behavior, expections and demands.
Just forget about them.