Mother-of-the-Year Laughs at Crying Daughter with Fake Beard (VIDEO)

by terroir Posted on March 4, 2013

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This video may be extremely upsetting to some viewers or equally funny to others:

Backstory and summary: A Chinese mother draws a fake beard on her daughter’s face as she sleeps.  Then, after the daughter wakes up, the mother takes a video of the daughter looking in shock at her image in the mirror.  As the mother tries to convince the daughter that she is now a boy, the daughter expresses her extreme displeasure.  Then, as the daughter pleads with the mother to change her back into a girl by loudly crying, the mother laughs.

If you can’t wait for it, the mother laughs at 0:56; it’s right around the time the daughter begs her mother to help her.

Personal note: smart phones are excellent for recording all those personal memories that you’ll cherish later.  They grow up so fast.

This video is from last year and has not (yet) achieved viral status in China.  Those who would think that all Chinese are similarly cruel should know that many Chinese find this type of behavior reprehensible.  Various netizens comments for this video have said as much, as well as this news broadcast that calls this mother “wicked” and “naughty”.  However, the fact remains that there are those who think this video is hilarious.

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While Sinopathic has not yet installed the appropriate WordPress “Laff-O-Meter” plugin, we will say we discovered this video only by watching it on China’s Funniest Home Videos (家庭幽默录像), as seen on television.*  A laugh track was involved.  Then, when searching for this video online, we found this video usually categorized in the “Hilarious” (搞笑) section.

As stated, this video has not yet become viral in China but there is at least one copycat video “bearding” of a small girl; this video is much more amicable and shows a little girl posing coyly with an umbrella while sporting her fake mustache.

The parents still laugh, though.  And though it’s not a copycat video, here is a another kind of “Chinese girl with a beard” video.  It doesn’t have a laugh track.

Just in case you have trouble making up your mind as to whether this video is cute and funny or cruel and despicable, here’s a side-by-side comparison for you:

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[* Hey.  I was switching channels.  The Chinese broadcast of "Saving Private Ryan" ("拯救大士瑞恩") was on a commercial break, I swear.]

 

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  • http://soundcloud.com/starhawk-1 Little Wolf

    Well….I wouldn’t call it “reprehensible”. Alot of kids probably would have found it funny. The girl might have woke up cranky. I doubt the mother had any bad intentions except trying to make a joke that went awry.

    When I got divorced I used to get my son on weekends. And because I had tattoos my son wanted to be like me and wanted me to put temporary tattoos on his face and he wore them proudly. When I’d return him to his mom on Sunday nights, the ex-wife would read me the riot act, threaten my visitation rights, etc. Even the school got involved in the bitching since no matter how hard the wife scrubbed it still took a few days for them to completely wear off. Then Friday would come and it would start all over. Some people just don’t have any sense of humor :-(

    • http://sinopathic.com/ terroir

      0:56

      I hope you don’t laugh like that. Well, maybe during Adam Sandler movies.

      • http://soundcloud.com/starhawk-1 Little Wolf

        Forgive me, I didn’t hear the mother laughing because I didn’t watch the video. Don’t want to see a kid crying….not because it’s annoying…just heartbreaking. I never watched the kitten stomping video either, though it doesn’t really compare with this.

        • http://sinopathic.com/ terroir

          Yes. This video made its way onto TV.

          Also: face tattoos? Your son is hardcore. What’d ya do, Mike Tyson? Jigsaw puzzle? If you say “pencil mustache as twirled by a silent movie villain”, I may have to laugh and ruin any sense of gravitas here.

        • http://soundcloud.com/starhawk-1 Little Wolf

          Oh yeah…..we covered his whole face with tattoos. He loved it! He was so proud. The ex-wife didn’t like it much, though.

          I’m a terrible dad :(

        • http://sinopathic.com/ terroir

          Cheer up. Once he turns eighteen, you guys can go get inked up together.

  • mr.wiener

    Was it the Jimmey Kimbel show where they got parents to send in vids of them telling their kids they ate all their halloween candy? People do some wack stuff on vids.

    Still the occasional bit of scaring you for life is character building.

    • http://sinopathic.com/ terroir

      Yes. Also: “Give your wife a disgusting gift on your anniversary”.

      I spent a bit of time trying to track down the specific episode of China’s “Funniest Home Videos”, and it’s just like its American counterpart: any kind of depravity is acceptable humor fodder as long as its accompanied by a laugh track. Animal abuse, traffic accidents, and child abuse all make great TV.

      No nut shots though: can’t insult the “family jewels”, the ancestors wouldn’t approve.

  • http://www.sinolicious.com/ Gay_Chevara

    Jesus……….

  • Brett

    I didn’t watch the video, but I’d say this is somewhere in between hilarious (because confused children are oh so cute) and sad because the mom doesn’t realize (or maybe she does) she is scaring the shit our of her kid.

    Anyways, I approve this story and it’s commentary.

    • http://sinopathic.com/ terroir

      This story is just to ascertain how I imagine you various commentators play “Mass Effect”.