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

[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.