To: Nameless
True...The situation in China is altered by the program of aborting female babies. Seems like the last I knew they had had about a 60 million male surplus.
29 posted on
10/22/2005 9:04:50 AM PDT by
cynicom
To: cynicom
Amazing! I don't think anyone can imagine the societal consequences of such a public policy in a country as populous as China. Do you know anything about the castrati culture in Italian city states? I've heard Camille Paglia discuss it but my knowledge of it is limited.
33 posted on
10/22/2005 9:13:23 AM PDT by
Nameless
To: cynicom
The can put 200 million into the field on an emergency basis, shades of armageddon!
56 posted on
10/22/2005 2:58:31 PM PDT by
mdmathis6
("It was not for nothing that you were named Ransom" from CS LEWIS' Perelandra!)
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