Millions of Parents Turn to Apps to Marry Off Kids

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I’m Spicy Auntie, your ever-curious, ever-smiling hostess on this sizzling little corner of the internet.

I'm a proud Asian woman in my early 50s, born with strong opinions, a sharp tongue (used kindly!), and a big heart. Financially self-sufficient, emotionally independent, and intellectually insatiable. I read the news before my first sip of morning tea and fall asleep scrolling through research papers and scandalous threads alike.

Why am I here? Because Asia is my playground and my passion. I know her curves and corners—her languages, her customs, her unspoken rules. I’ve danced at weddings, cried at funerals, been blessed by monks, and been scolded by aunties even spicier than me. I know what goes unsaid in our homes and what’s too often silenced in our media.

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Millions of Parents Turn to Apps to Marry Off Kids

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Oh darling, of course the parents downloaded the app. You really thought the generation that survived ration coupons, housing reforms, exam wars, property bubbles, and the one-child policy was going to sit quietly while their precious only son announces he’s “focusing on himself”? Please. These aunties did not endure thirty years of sacrifice for their family tree to end in a one-bedroom rental with a houseplant named Kevin. Let’s be honest: this isn’t about romance. It’s about security, face, continuity, and the deeply rooted belief that adulthood equals marriage. For...
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Ah, sisters. We have this extraordinary, almost Olympic-level ability to divide ourselves and fight the wrong battles while the house is literally on fire. Look around the world. Women’s bodily autonomy is being rolled back. LGBTQ people are criminalised from Kampala to Kuala Lumpur. Authoritarian governments are policing classrooms, bedrooms, and wombs. Economic inequality is widening. Domestic violence shelters are underfunded. Online misogyny is algorithmically turbocharged. And yet here we are — sharpening our claws for each other. I’m not saying these questions about sex, gender, identity, and lesbian space...
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Let me tell you something about family WhatsApp groups, darlings. They are not innocent. They are not “just for updates.” They are mini-parliaments, surveillance hubs, emotional labor factories, and occasionally — digital crime scenes. I belong to several. Of course I do. Big Asian family, remember? Aunties, uncles, cousins, nieces, the whole orchestra. Every morning: flowers, blessings, good-morning GIFs that sparkle like they were designed in 2003. And who sends them? The women. Always the women. Because apparently even in cyberspace, it’s our job to keep the peace, keep the...
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