Love forced a woman to wear high heels
When she doesn’t, her boyfriend beats her
June 8, 2009
Source: Yangzi Evening Post
A man from Nanjing’s Pukou district has a fetish with high-heeled shoes. He doesn’t wear them, but he likes it when women wear them. As a result, his 170 cm girlfriend has an important assignment: when they are together she must wear high heels. But his girlfriend unfortunately doesn’t like to wear high heels. Yesterday night, this brought her boyfriend to blows.
Yesterday before dawn, the Nanjing Police received a call from a woman who stated that her boyfriend had just beaten her up. The police rushed to 1 Puzhu Road where they discovered an approximately 30-year-old woman. This woman explained that she was 30 and her boyfriend was 27 and they had known each other for over a year. Her boyfriend had a bad problem with liking women to wear high heels. He required she wear them in his presence. But she didn’t like to wear high heels because they hurt her feet. She told her boyfriend, “You’re 173 cm tall and I’m 170 cm tall. If I wear heels aren’t I taller then you?” But the boyfriend didn’t care, he definitely wanted her to wear heels. Yesterday night after 11pm, the pair went out for a late-night snack and the man discovered his girlfriend had not worn high heels. He consequently cursed at her and said that she wasn’t giving him face. She argued back at him and he then started hitting her. Finally, she called the police to pick up her boyfriend. While the police attempted to mediate the situation, he agreed to break up with the woman.
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No offense, this is the type of topic that chinasmut would bring up. There are men with OCD with high heels out there, Chinese men or not.
@Pug_ster,
This is a chinaSMACKy post. But I kinda like being a little chinaSMACKy, don’t you?
I’m curious to hear what you think we should post on and what you think we shouldn’t.
Hi Pug-ster,
Thanks for the feedback. The topic is a undeniably salacious, but that’s hardly my whole purpose in posting this story. Beyond the narrative itself, I’d hope you pay attention to how it’s been treated in the press. My main objective for publishing these stories is not really to uncover some dark underbelly of Chinese society, but rather to show people through translation how these stories are handled in the mainstream Chinse media.
For example, a few things that I think are worth noting about this particular article:
- There is a full address listed for the scene, but no names
- There is no mention of any legal action, though there seems to have been an assault
- No photos from the scene
- The original Chinese has some colorful expressions alluding to ancient martial arts tradition in describing the assault
- No quotes or eyewitnesses
- We know the boyfriend has agreed to break up with the girl, but how does she feel about this resolution?
Put another way, I’d like to ask what sort of journalism is this? Rather than focus so much on the topic (though of course, I hope that grabs your attention!), I’d hope people notice some of the meta-issues and think what they might indicate about reporting in China generally.
I think people in the West for the most part have little if any exposure to the Chinese press and have little idea of what’s there. I’d just like to help broaden people’s conceptions of it.
Thanks for reading,
mollie
This is what I call the weird and wonderful news. A lot of these can be found in China Daily. And I particularly like reading them, because they’re “light” news compared to the rest in the broadsheets. :-)
So I can understand why “major” details are left out.
I love these meta insights and encourage you to share them in the post themselves. Your editorial voice will provide a lot of context to the story beyond just the translation! I for one didn’t mind reading the post!
One person having some kind of high-heel fetish is a non-starter topic as I see this kind of news in the ’strange’ news section. Maybe we can broaden the topic like China not treating OCD correctly. Maybe domestic violence toward women.
This guy is crazy! If he cant handle a girl with no high heels than I am sorry but that is just absolutely pathetic!
“He consequently cursed at her and said that she wasn’t giving him face.”
Did he mean “face” or “head”?
Either way, he’s not getting any now.