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oh, please
First, I would bet that women joke about men just as much. Second, Mao was obviously referring to population problems, which were and are real... I can't read anything "appalling" in his quote, and in fact he didn't even state anything about his opinion of women as people, only about their "way of doing things", which in this case meant bearing (too many) children.