This reflects a deeper anxiety in Chinese women's media representation: the pressure to be globally cosmopolitan. A woman with a Corgi is modern and wealthy. A woman with a tugou is earthy, authentic, but "less than." Feminist critics on Weibo have pointed out that the "handbag dog" phenomenon is merely a new cage for old patriarchal standards—the dog, like the woman, must be small, decorative, and non-threatening to be valued.
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