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A mirror has two faces

One crucial character in this media brouhaha is Nicolas Tse, married two years earlier to Cecilia Cheung and with their son shortly before the incident. Tse is a big star in his own right. When the photos were uncovered, everyone was expecting him to break up with his wife, possibly with dramatic gestures like yelling at her, punching her in the face and calling her a "bitch".

Tse disappointed all the onlookers, saying the incident only served to bring him and his wife closer. An erstwhile teen idol, he has mellowed to the point of defying all Chinese stereotypes of a henpecked husband. (For all we know, the photos could have been taken long before his marriage to Cheung, though.)

Maybe it was a remnant of his defiance, a trademark of his rock'n'roll years. For more than a year now, pundits have been dropping him hints, such as "Nicolas Tse would not receive a single word of criticism if he divorced his wife." But he said he didn't even hate Edison Chen, thus depriving the gloating populace of their guilty pleasure.

Some may deem him "not man enough", but he did something not many men have the courage to do, ie, to help a family member overcome possibly the biggest obstacle in her life that he did not have a hand in creating.

Sometimes I have the impression that some of China's netizens have never been affected by the May 4th Movement. They could be living in a feudal era when women were forced to bind their feet and be obedient to their husbands. Something bad happens? Oh, it must be the woman's fault. When emperors kept a harem of thousands of young women, it was a manifestation of their virility. When Empress Wu Zetian kept a few gigolos, it was a sin that wiped out all her political achievements in the public eye.