Letters to the Editor
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Newsflash: Hilter and Stalin not nice guys either
This is newsworthy? That a third world dictator, author of the Cultural Revolution, was not a warm fuzzy feminist kinda guy? duh.
Chinese attitudes towards women are longstanding, and deeply entrenched, and there is tons of literature and documented research into this. They have both a very misogynist society, AND a huge population problem. It's stupid to anyone who thinks it through -- because both men and women contribute to population growth -- but the easy, lame response is that "we have too many people because WOMEN KEEP HAVING BABIES"....no acknowledgement that all those babies had to have daddies.
It seems, though, that Mao got his wish, albiet long long after his death -- because the Chinese have surely passed onto the West many, many girl children (by international adoption), though not quite 10 million. Note that all Chinese adoptions, unlike other countries, is exclusively female....they aren't sending us their boys, just their unwanted extra girls.
And boy, are they going to reap sorrow from this. Between international adoptions of girls, and the one-child policy, and abortions of girls for sex selection, and the overwhelming preference that the "one-child" be a son -- the Chinese are facing down a HUGE, unprecedented, never-seen-before imbalance between the sexes. Millions of Chinese men are going to face life-long singlehood, with no hope of marriage and probably no children of any kind, let alone sons.
It is still very unclear what that means for the rest of the world, in terms of Chinese economic and military power. But what is clear is that we will be reaping Mao's stupid remarks, Chinese misogyny, and population sex imbalance for many decades into the future.
There is never any way to quantify or contain human arrogance or stupidity.
Next question.