I’m not kidding! That’s the actual motto of the Longshuihu village, a “women’s town” in China. Actually, the motto goes beyond that. Women never make mistakes, and men can never refuse women’s requests.

Planning on touring this town as a couple? The woman gets to choose what to buy while shopping and what hotel to stay in. The disobedient man would be punished by doing things such as having to kneel on an uneven board or washing dishes in a restaurant. Now, I’m not sure what qualifies as being “disobedient” here. Refusing to stay in the chosen hotel or refusing to pay for the bauble his wife picked out? Or what about just having an argument about it, which results in the wife winning anyway? Maybe just a frown on his face suggesting displeasure with her choice would qualify as being disobedient?

Despite the fact that I get a certain sense of satisfaction thinking about having a female-dominated town, this really is over the edge on the crazy side of things. This kind of dominance is wrong in any situation. Nevertheless, it’s some kind of old tradition in this area of China. So, the fact that this town lives by an old rule is something I could shrug off as being “just the way it is”. But the fact that China is attempting to turn the town’s novel lifestyle into a tourist attraction is wild. I’ve had some crazy money-making ideas in the past, but never anything quite this weird.

It’s a crazy, crazy world out there.

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(from Smash Mouth. "AllStar" Astro Lounge. Interscope Records, 1999.)

Posted on April 28th, 2007 by DazzlinDonna
Filed under: Weird Stuff