‘Rotten luck to get a daughter’: Chinese man angered at birth of baby girl blames wife, talks of divorce in controversial online rant
- A businessman in southwestern China rages in viral online posts after his wife gives birth to a daughter instead of a son
- The posts have triggered mass condemnation in a country trying to move past a history of femicide and gender discrimination against girls
A man in China furious that his newborn baby was a girl instead of a boy has vented on social media, talking about divorce and how he could not be bothered naming his newborn daughter, causing outrage online.
The father, a businessman, surnamed Rao, from Chongqing in southwestern China, was furious and disappointed after his wife gave birth to a baby girl on Tuesday. He soon afterwards expressed his anger in a number of ranting posts on WeChat Moments.
“I can’t even bear staying at the hospital for a single minute. I must have committed evil in my last life, thus my rotten luck to get a daughter now,” he wrote.
Rao said in one post that he had been looking forward to what he assumed would be the birth of a baby boy for the last nine months. He also wrote that he was so disappointed, he couldn’t be bothered choosing a name for his newborn daughter.
He also said in one post that he would divorce his wife as punishment for giving birth to a daughter.