Man fat-shamed for a dating advertisement says ordinary men can’t meet expectations for love in China
- The online bullying of Zhang Kunwei led him to publish an article saying Chinese dating standards for men are impossible to meet
- But another professor reminded him that “nobody owes you a wife”
Zhang received a flood of abuse online last week from people who criticised a photo of him travelling in a desert.
“Oh my God! He is so ugly. What’s more, he is so oily (a Chinese slang referring to middle-aged men with bald hair and chubby belly),” wrote one person on the social media platform Douban, where Zhang placed his dating advertisement but later deleted it.
Another person commented, “I wonder why he is so mediocre but still so confident,” citing the famous barb from female comedian Yang Li.
They also commented that Zhang’s claim to earn 50,000 yuan (US$7,600) per month is unlikely considering he works at a small-time college in Shanxi province in central China. Zhang said he makes money on the side with computer programming jobs and by coaching gamers.
