'Rotten luck to get a girl': Man in China rants online, refuses to choose name for newborn daughter
JULY 31, 2022
By LIYA SU
A handout photo. A man in China who has just become a new father has shocked millions after an enraged online rant about his bitter disappointment at having a daughter instead of a son.
South China Morning Post
A man in China furious that his newborn baby was a girl instead of a boy has vented on social media, talking about divorce and how he could not be bothered naming his newborn daughter, causing outrage online.
The father, a businessman, surnamed Rao, from Chongqing in southwestern China, was furious and disappointed after his wife gave birth to a baby girl on Tuesday. He soon afterwards expressed his anger in a number of ranting posts on WeChat Moments.More from AsiaOneRead the condensed version of this story, and other top stories with NewsLite.
"I can't even bear staying at the hospital for a single minute. I must have committed evil in my last life, thus my rotten luck to get a daughter now," he wrote.
Rao said in one post that he had been looking forward to what he assumed would be the birth of a baby boy for the last nine months. He also wrote that he was so disappointed, that he couldn't be bothered choosing a name for his newborn daughter.
He also said in one post that he would divorce his wife as punishment for giving birth to a daughter.
Reaction to the man's rant went viral on mainland social media, where screenshots of his posts were shared online by one of his WeChat friends. At the time of writing, there were 27,556 comments and 809,684 likes on the Weibo post carrying the story.
Rao admitted to writing the comments but said the post saying he would like to divorce his wife was from before his daughter was born. But he did not provide any evidence to refute the widely shared screenshots of the comment.
"I have quite an aggressive personality, I tend to go to extremes, but my posts were just a few words of complaint," he told Jimu News.
He said that having a son has been his dream, and when he made the posts he had just lost 70,000 yuan (S$14,300) in a scam and was under a lot of stress.
"In the future, I will certainly meet my responsibilities for raising and taking care of my family," Rao said
A handout photo. A man in China who has just become a new father has shocked millions after an enraged online rant about his bitter disappointment at having a daughter instead of a son.
South China Morning Post
A man in China furious that his newborn baby was a girl instead of a boy has vented on social media, talking about divorce and how he could not be bothered naming his newborn daughter, causing outrage online.
The father, a businessman, surnamed Rao, from Chongqing in southwestern China, was furious and disappointed after his wife gave birth to a baby girl on Tuesday. He soon afterwards expressed his anger in a number of ranting posts on WeChat Moments.More from AsiaOneRead the condensed version of this story, and other top stories with NewsLite.
"I can't even bear staying at the hospital for a single minute. I must have committed evil in my last life, thus my rotten luck to get a daughter now," he wrote.
Rao said in one post that he had been looking forward to what he assumed would be the birth of a baby boy for the last nine months. He also wrote that he was so disappointed, that he couldn't be bothered choosing a name for his newborn daughter.
He also said in one post that he would divorce his wife as punishment for giving birth to a daughter.
Reaction to the man's rant went viral on mainland social media, where screenshots of his posts were shared online by one of his WeChat friends. At the time of writing, there were 27,556 comments and 809,684 likes on the Weibo post carrying the story.
Rao admitted to writing the comments but said the post saying he would like to divorce his wife was from before his daughter was born. But he did not provide any evidence to refute the widely shared screenshots of the comment.
"I have quite an aggressive personality, I tend to go to extremes, but my posts were just a few words of complaint," he told Jimu News.
He said that having a son has been his dream, and when he made the posts he had just lost 70,000 yuan (S$14,300) in a scam and was under a lot of stress.
"In the future, I will certainly meet my responsibilities for raising and taking care of my family," Rao said
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Children wearing face masks are seen at Shanghai railway station in Shanghai, China, on March 5, 2020.
PHOTO: Reuters
"I don't have any siblings. Actually both my parents like having a baby girl, now they are looking after their daughter-in-law and granddaughter."
A man who claimed to be a friend of Rao's, identified only as Huang, defended him in an interview with Jimu News.
Huang told the paper that the baby girl is Rao and his wife's first child by way of explaining his behaviour. He also claimed that Rao's parents had been angered by his comments and had reprimanded him as a result.
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Local police and the Chongqing Women's Federation have said they are aware of the incident, and the latter said it would offer support if the mother or daughter were at risk.
Public opinion online was swift to condemn Rao for his comments.
One person wrote on Weibo: "He was given birth to by a woman, did he feel unlucky for himself then?"
Another wrote: "When will the feudal idea of having a preference for male offspring over female ones die out?"
Census data for 2021 released in February by China's National Bureau of Statistics revealed that last year the gender ratio of the country's population remained skewed in favour of males - 723 million males compared to 689 million females.
In the traditional marriage age range of 20 to 40 there were 20 million more men than women, the data also revealed.
In response to growing concern at these population trends, the Chinese government last year initiated a three-child policy, replacing the previous two-child policy introduced in 2016. Before that, couples in China were restricted to having just one child for nearly 40 years.
This article was first published in South China Morning Post.
PHOTO: Reuters
"I don't have any siblings. Actually both my parents like having a baby girl, now they are looking after their daughter-in-law and granddaughter."
A man who claimed to be a friend of Rao's, identified only as Huang, defended him in an interview with Jimu News.
Huang told the paper that the baby girl is Rao and his wife's first child by way of explaining his behaviour. He also claimed that Rao's parents had been angered by his comments and had reprimanded him as a result.
Read Also China's population expected to start to shrink before 2025
Local police and the Chongqing Women's Federation have said they are aware of the incident, and the latter said it would offer support if the mother or daughter were at risk.
Public opinion online was swift to condemn Rao for his comments.
One person wrote on Weibo: "He was given birth to by a woman, did he feel unlucky for himself then?"
Another wrote: "When will the feudal idea of having a preference for male offspring over female ones die out?"
Census data for 2021 released in February by China's National Bureau of Statistics revealed that last year the gender ratio of the country's population remained skewed in favour of males - 723 million males compared to 689 million females.
In the traditional marriage age range of 20 to 40 there were 20 million more men than women, the data also revealed.
In response to growing concern at these population trends, the Chinese government last year initiated a three-child policy, replacing the previous two-child policy introduced in 2016. Before that, couples in China were restricted to having just one child for nearly 40 years.
This article was first published in South China Morning Post.
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