four battle of the sexes text messages that came strung together like bad faith.

感叹男人：
有才华的长的丑、长的帅的挣钱少、挣钱多的不顾家、顾家的没出息、有出息的不浪漫、会浪漫的靠不住、靠得住的有窝囊。
感叹女人：
漂亮的不下厨房、下厨房的不温柔、温柔的没主见、有主见的没女人味、有女人味的乱花钱、不乱花钱的不时尚、时尚的不放心、放心的没法看。

when it comes to men, all you can do is sigh:
the talented are ugly, the handsome earn next to nothing, the high earners don’t care about their families, those who care about their families have no future, those with a future aren’t romantic, the romantics can’t be relied on, and those who can be relied on are annoying.
when it comes to women, all you can do is sigh:
the pretty don’t cook, those who cook aren’t tender, the tender are clueless, the clued in aren’t feminine, the feminine spend like crazy, the thrifty aren’t fashionable, the fashionable can’t be trusted, those who can be trusted can’t be looked at.

老婆是电视、情人是手机、在家看电视、出门带手机、破产卖电视、发财换手机、偶尔看电视、整天玩手机、电视终身不收费、手机欠费就停机。

a wife is like a television, a lover like a cellphone. you watch t.v. at home, bring your cellphone when you go out. when bankrupt, you sell the t.v., when rich, you change cellphones. you watch t.v. sometimes, play with your cellphone all day. a t.v. is free for life, cellphone service stops if you miss a payment.

三十岁的男人正在学会、抱着同一代唱着同样的爱，四十岁男人已经学坏、抱着下一代唱着迟来的爱，五十岁男人最坏、抱着第三代唱着糊涂的爱。

thirty year old men are just learning to be bad, they embrace someone their own age and sing the same love song. forty year old men have already gone bad, they embrace someone from the next generation and sing a song of belated love. fifty year old men are the worst, they embrace someone their granddaughter’s age and sing a song of messed up love.

做女人一定要经得起谎言、受得起敷衍、忍得主欺骗、忘得了诺言、宁愿相信世上有鬼、也不能相信男人那张破嘴。

to succeed as a woman you have to take lies in stride, put up with indifference, endure being cheated, and forget promises. it’s better to believe in ghosts than in anything uttered by men.

sigh.