Some Wild and Greasy Guys!

[Randy W]

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Meet China’s New Fall Guys: ‘Greasy’ Middle-Aged Men

Condemned by feminists and pilloried on social media, supposedly sleazy men are finding little sympathy for their midlife crises.

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the weisuonan, or “sleazy men,”

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Media caricatures of greasy middle-aged men frequently depict 40- or 50-somethings as having a grubby appearance, a stereotype further buoyed by reports of marital infidelity and sexual harassment involving younger women. In the public mindset, then, these tropes indicate the spiritual vacuum in which men of a certain age are thought to live. When you factor in this group’s supposed personality traits — emotionally unfulfilled, nostalgic for their fading youth, lusting after money, comfort, and power — then the overall picture becomes one that Western readers will also find familiar: midlife crisis, albeit with Chinese characteristics.

 

 

 

 

Zeng Yuli is a freelance writer focusing on Chinese youth culture.

 

[Greg.D.]

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Its depictions of Chinese “dad fashion” blended with a hint of nouveau riche kitsch resonated with many readers who shared a laugh at 40-something men who wear strings of Buddhist rosary beads on their wrists, have a proclivity for carrying thermoses of hot water mixed with red dates and goji berries, grow their fingernails long, pack a bulging paunch, and don “statement” golden neck chains.