Wow, no one saw this one coming. OH, WAIT.

[ohinternets.livejournal.com]

Skewed China birthrate to leave 24 million men single by 2020.

BEIJING (AFP) – More than 24 million Chinese men of marrying age could find themselves without spouses in 2020, state media reported on Monday, citing a study that blamed sex-specific abortions as a major factor.

The study, by the government-backed Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, named the gender imbalance among newborns as the most serious demographic problem for the country's population of 1.3 billion, the Global Times said.

Rest of the story at the source link. The deafening decades-long silence of the women's rights international community on this issue is nothing short of morally reprehensible.

Comments

[mosinging1986.livejournal.com]

Yeah, no surprise there. Bad policy = tragic consequences.

On the other hand, maybe we single women need to move to China.

[ohinternets.livejournal.com]

Agreed. and LOL!!! It's like moving to Alaska, just not as many moose!

[lazypadawan.livejournal.com]

First of all, the "women's rights community" only cares about the Blood God of Abortion. The Chinese government thoughtfully provided "choice" for all Chinese women, whether they wanted it or not, so as long as the Blood God is satisfied, they are satisfied. Several years ago, ex-NOW president Molly Yard was a guest on Oprah. Someone in the audience got up and asked her what she thought about China's one-child policy and its forced abortions. All Molly Yard could do was yell over and over that she was for choice as the NOW-bot plants in the audience cheered, drowning out the questioner. Like I said, they're not pro-woman, they're pro-dead babies.

I predict this will be a massive demographic disaster for China on both an economic front--you need a growing population to maintain a growing economy--and on the nation's stability. 24 million men with limited access to women will lead to violence on a scale not seen since the end of WWII. I'm concerned one way the Communist government could put down an internal revolt is to start a war with somebody else in order to cull the herd and put that anger and frustration somewhere else. I'd be very worried if I lived in South Korea, Japan, and especially Taiwan.

[ohinternets.livejournal.com]

I agree with your second paragraph, but I had a much broader intent with the term "international women's rights community", referring to people who work to improve the lives of women and children in countries where 12yo girls are still sold off to 45yo men, are killed for being raped, or are from countries where female genital mutilation is routinely practiced, or are in a war zone, or whatever. there is a need for that type of activism in many parts of the world, but still no one speaks for the woman-hatred that goes on with the millions of gender-selective Chinese abortions.

[clearlypellucid.livejournal.com]

Except the people who pursue those real women's rights issues most actively aren't organizations like NOW, they're organizations like the Peace Corps. Groups like NOW spend almost every dollar they take in on abortion lobbying.

[sabbrielle.livejournal.com]

Equality Now is rather good. http://equalitynow.org

[blondebaroness.livejournal.com]

Yeah, how come Americans go to China to adopt because all the pregnant teenagers keep their babies, and they come home with only little girls?

[modernelegance.livejournal.com]

Mail Order Grooms anyone?

[clearlypellucid.livejournal.com]

I can't wait until these men start offering to buy those Russian brides for exorbitant amounts of money.

[regalpewter.livejournal.com]

Either that or translate "Dad's Roomate" into Mandarin...

YIS,
WRI

[sreya.livejournal.com]

Nope, instead they're supporting child trafficking into prostitution from countries like Nepal. :~(

[jenny-wildcat.livejournal.com]

I saw this on Yahoo's front page and thought "Since when is this news?" Shoot, we talked about this in 6th grade geography.