China's "Leftover Women"

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http://www.theworld.org/2013/01/china-leftover-women/

Here is a cute little ditty

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6Cs8HqY1dg[/youtube]

How can there be left over women in a country where there's a state instituted one child birth preference and many rural families want a male? Seems like China will need to import women from other places at some point. The men will not be able to find brides. They will take any women they can get.

http://www.chinasmack.com/2011/pictures ... wives.html

Wow, we've effectively spread our disease.

Perhaps the next step would be for their A quality women turning to gangsters and convicts.

The A quality women could marry rich guys from overseas and leave the country? Then what would China do? Their population would be watered down, or so they think. These people have too much time on their hands, looks like, to spend time worrying about this bs.

The tragedy is: The person speaking don´t realize that as people talk nonsense, they are worth less and less. So by the time, they get to the part telling that a 23 year old woman would be less "worth" then an 18 year old woman, their brain has already surrendered.



Th eproblem is, for centuries women in asia had the status "things". Things you need to buy, to get heirs. Things you need to buy, so you can have sex. Things you buy, so you dont need to do the housework. If you were richer and had a better status, you also could spend more money for good quality, so you bought a thing that was trained to play music, or was trained to give so much effort on her externals, that the women become a kind of art herself, like a precious jade statue you could show your friends to show how wealthy you are. Just think of the crippled feet women had to have if they were not from the lowered classes. So women just existed as a thing to please men or to work, at lower classes. Thats why women of lower classes had no crippled feet, because the men couldnt afford such precious art "things", they did not have the money to loose the advantage of the work "thing".

For Chinese society it was completely normal that female newborns, were thrown on the streets if not wanted. To remove the bodies of the dead babies was normal part of the streetworkes, that had to clean the streets of the garbage in the morning. Garbage included these corpses.

When christian monks came to China the first years, people thought that they would do bloody rituals or such things. It was because this monks created orphan houses, and took some of that unwanted thrown away babies. But the people could not believe them, that someone would collect that garbage, because he would see a worth in it. Its as if someone told you, that you would collect dog s**t from the street to praise your god. So they thought the priests and monks would be lying to the people, and in reality wanted the children for other causes, including pedestery or bloody religious rituals.

So many things has changed, and the situations is now much better, but still its in many peoples head that women would be worth less. So if a man was forced to have an equal marriage, he feels as if he was lowering his status and worth. Because if you are equal to something worth less then you, then this means that you are also worth less.

The problem is, whe as humans are afraid of things we dont know. So normally when we marry we stay around something we knew. So we normally know how people live in "our class", and the surrounding "classes" below and up. This is where we feel safe, because we know how it is to live that way, being with this people comforts us. The problem with this really godd educated women is, that the men in the "classes" around them also are good educated normally, so they have money and wealth.

And before lowering their worth marrying a woman that wants to have an equal marriage, where both have the some worth, meaning the man feels like worth less afterwards, they prefer to marry a women some status. Because if you only want a servant as wife anyway, it doesnt care if your servant wife comes from a servant class. So not the wealthy men are these that find no women in the end, but the poor ones.

Which leads to the problem, that in a society, in which patriarchy is still around and "men have to be the one supporting the family", being as much worth as a woman is bad enough. But being less worth then a woman, because of earning lesser money, is overkill.

In Japan they had the some problems, but because they had more international contacts and companies meeting each other, the custom has grown that these good educated women with good income marry, european and american men, that came to Japan because of their companies and business. They normally dont have parents in law that cry into their ears because of that "old 25 year old women, already half dead".... he wants to marry, XD

Those are cute pictures.

There is also Russia, which seems to have an imbalance in the other direction.

http://www.picnews.info/picture-news/34 ... ward-china




In some of the pictures, the Chinese groom looks like he may be considerably older.

in India there is a similar problem with a shortage of women for wives because of selective abortions. this has led to women who are sold into marriage as a form of marriage slaves. i saw a special on al Jazeera about it in their modern slavery series called "Bridal Slaves". you can watch it here:

http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/sla ... 68710.html

i wondered if the same problem was happening n China, and it turns out that yes... the women are being sold into slavery from North Korea.

http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/world/2012/F ... to-Misery/

there is more information here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bride-buying

oh, and as to the OP... i don't think there are that many leftover women in China, and the few that are may be happy to be single.

Wonder why the Chinese government insists on enforcing this idea that it is so terrible to be born Chinese? Very misguided in this particular area.

While this report is very compelling, this is from Pat Robertson. I wouldn't necessarily take everything that he has to say at face value.

Not if they expect to please their parents and grandparents.

http://travel.cnn.com/shanghai/play/sau ... ket-086672

here is another source. you can google it yourself. :/ or even check out the wikipedia link which i noticed you skipped quoting.

http://www.asafeworldforwomen.org/traff ... china.html

it looks like they have it under control. even the first article you linked made it clear that there weren't actually any leftover women - it was just a product of the Chinese propaganda machine.

Okay. I'll bet that this was the first time that you, of all people, ever cited Pat Robertson. It surprised me.

Here is some more information on the Underground Railroad out of North Korea: http://vtncankor.wordpress.com/2011/05/ ... -evidence/

And, some more on the special perils faced by North Korean women in China: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 03143.html

There are about 2 million ethnic Koreans who live in China: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koreans_in_China

Korean-Chinese have their own Autonomous Prefecture, which borders both North Korea and Russia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yanbian_Ko ... Prefecture

I wonder if this is where North Korean runaways try to run first?

Now wait a tick.



It is the case that



And, the article goes on about how horrible it is to be married to a Chinaman.

In the Washington Post article that I cited



Hyperlexian's article seems to want to emphasize that women are heroines, and men are lazy, abusive scum.

It is fairly common in parts of Asia for women either to enter the executive-ejaculatory business, or to seek a foreign husband, generally with the idea of being able to support their parents and siblings financially. For North Koreans, it may be difficult to sent remittances to relatives back home.

I wonder what the ratio of women to men was among runaway slaves in the United States? Probably few of the slave women expected to find a husband to take them in. Some no doubt worked in the ejaculatory-administration industry, and were able to keep their profits for themselves. Slave owners typically expected their female slaves to increase their wealth by producing a new slave baby every year or two, and to be sexually available on call for the master and his buddies. Maybe our runaway female slaves just wanted a chance to rest.

Due to shortage of women in China a lot of the men end up having to marry women from neighboring countries like Vietnam Korea Laos Thailand Mongolia Burma Nepal Indonesia and even Japan.