Mother’s Day attacks target China internet celebrity as bad feminist
- Video blogger known as ‘Papi Sauce’ lambasted after revelation newborn son was given her husband’s surname
- The outspoken feminist has previously attracted criticism for contradicting many Chinese family traditions
A Chinese internet celebrity famous for her feminist views was subjected to an online Mother’s Day attack after it was revealed her newborn son had been given his father’s surname.
Entertainment blogger Enhe-I, who shared Jiang’s post, added the comment, “still her son adopts the father’s family name” which generated a flood of angry responses online.
“Papi Sauce has previously said she and her husband are independent. They each go to their own parents’ home for Spring Festival and she has never visited her parents-in-law’s home,” one response read.
“She also said she didn’t want a child. However, not long afterwards she got pregnant and now her child has the father’s surname,” another said.
Jiang, 33, shot to fame several years ago for her videos – which have more than 33 million fans on Weibo – in which she comments on social topics in an exaggerated, sarcastic and often self-deprecating way. Many of them depict women as victims of society’s gender stereotypes and call on women to be themselves.