offewwords:

lenachen:

Chinese parents believe that they know what is best for their children and therefore override all of their children’s own desires and preferences. That’s why Chinese daughters can’t have boyfriends in high school and why Chinese kids can’t go to sleepaway camp. It’s also why no Chinese kid would ever dare say to their mother, “I got a part in the school play! I’m Villager Number Six. I’ll have to stay after school for rehearsal every day from 3:00 to 7:00, and I’ll also need a ride on weekends.” God help any Chinese kid who tried that one.

The fact is that Chinese parents can do things that would seem unimaginable—even legally actionable—to Westerners. Chinese mothers can say to their daughters, “Hey fatty—lose some weight.” By contrast, Western parents have to tiptoe around the issue, talking in terms of “health” and never ever mentioning the f-word, and their kids still end up in therapy for eating disorders and negative self-image. (I also once heard a Western father toast his adult daughter by calling her “beautiful and incredibly competent.” She later told me that made her feel like garbage.)

This article is hilarious, and although it’s a huge generalization, I’m sure it hits too close to home for the children of many Chinese mothers.

True story: when I was six, my mother locked me up in my bedroom with a chart of the multiplication tables and wouldn’t let me out until I learned them up to 12 X 12. When I told this story to my little sister, her response was, “Whatever. She did that to me when I was four.”

I feel like my dad was the role of the “Chinese Mother” and my mom was more “Western,” especially in the part of the article where she described her husband’s role.

parislemon:

Paul Graham responds to the “bubble” talk. His thoughts? It’s nowhere near the doomsday bubble stage because everything now is so localized. This echoes some of my thoughts from December.

I am lonely.
I mean, look at my life: the few friends I had are now gone because I have to study or to go our with my best friend, I don’t get out, I don’t have a boyfriend…I have just my family.
It’s not a feeling, it’s a situation.
And wolf are always in packs.
So Wolf is your spirit animal too?

themostmusic:

White Winter Hymnal- Dirty Mittens (Fleet Foxes Cover)

Holiday/Seasonal song number 3: a cover of Fleet Foxes “White Winter Hymnal” by Dirty Mittens. So you’ve got winter, mittens, and this song, which sounds like the perfect soundtrack for frolicking in the snow. Doesn’t get much more seasonal than that! 

fuckyeahgrinding:

Fuck yeah 8 week 2500 game break even (just with Rakeback) stretch.

<smashes head against brick wall>.

yahnyinlondon:

Another week and another lunch excursion. This time to the lovely Caravan in Exmouth Market. I’d previously been to this place when it was a bar, apparently one of the site’s many incarnations. The interior has been well designed and the roastery downstairs looks very promising. As far as I…

androphilia:

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tumblingemily:

thedailywhat:

Science Experiment of the Day: Leave it to Rob Cockerham to discover that the newly unveiled 31oz Starbucks Trenta cup is capable of containing the contents of an entire bottle of wine.

[laughingsquid.]

WHAT. Ok, since I don’t drink coffee I guess this will come in handy.

mostexerent:

Suspense before surprise 

killmetheking:

mildlyamused:

Art - Lapham’s Quarterly