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China’s ‘Leftover’ Women
New York Times ^
| October 11, 2012
| LETA HONG FINCHER
Posted on 10/13/2012 5:03:51 AM PDT by reaganaut1
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Maureen Dowd should have taken some of this advice. And according to the "rules", some pictures need to be posted.
To: reaganaut1
Leftover Women?
in country that practices abortion and infanticide on girl babies?
preposterous. unless the Chicoms have a large bone smuggling male population.
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posted on
10/13/2012 5:24:07 AM PDT
by
Vaquero
(Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
To: reaganaut1
This woman is so sad a man will not love here. She has to write a piece about women in China.
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posted on
10/13/2012 5:26:40 AM PDT
by
bmwcyle
(Corollary - Electing the same person over and over and expecting a different outcome is insanity)
To: reaganaut1
In America, the leftover women are called “the NOW gang”
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posted on
10/13/2012 5:30:02 AM PDT
by
bert
((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... Present failure and impending death yield irrational action))
To: Vaquero
That’s the point of the propaganda. They’re trying to stigmatize women who have left the marriage market.
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posted on
10/13/2012 5:50:47 AM PDT
by
Eepsy
To: Eepsy
I had heard there was a shortage of women in China...
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posted on
10/13/2012 5:57:52 AM PDT
by
Eric in the Ozarks
(In the game of life, there are no betting limits)
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To: reaganaut1
You're right, she should have but she followed feminist advice to pursue career first. So she lost out on the marriage front. Men want to marry youth and looks and women want a successful husband. To maximize that, women would have to put finding husband first and career second but that's not what girls are taught.
I think Chinese women are more aware of the risks so if they pursue careers they know it's at the expense of marriage.
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posted on
10/13/2012 6:05:26 AM PDT
by
Varda
To: Varda
These women sound like my ex wife. She left me 10 years ago thinking she could find something better. Now she’s she’s a spinster, no husband, no children....no hope. But lots of haagen daz.
To: Tzar
Oh, yes. Twenty seven is
soooo old.
All I have to say is I'm not too proud to eat leftovers.
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posted on
10/13/2012 6:15:00 AM PDT
by
seowulf
("If you write a whole line of zeroes, it's still---nothing"...Kira Alexandrovna Argounova)
To: reaganaut1
The one child policy has caused a demographic nightmare for the Chinese: they don’t have enough people to accomodate necessary future growth in the economy. Necessary to avoid mass insurrection. India will probably outgrow China because the trends are more favorable.
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posted on
10/13/2012 6:17:15 AM PDT
by
SC_Pete
To: reaganaut1
Come to America, where a fat, dumb and fugly girl can still be Secretary of State.
To: Catholic Canadian
My neighbor had a wife like that. She had the gall to think he'd take her back if her new honey didn’t work out. She of course is now old and alone except she did have kids. That is a good consolation for someone as dim witted as that.
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posted on
10/13/2012 6:21:29 AM PDT
by
Varda
To: reaganaut1
I met several very attractive Chinese women in their late 20's and early 30's who were considered "unattractive" by Chinese standards... weighing barely over 115, or having slightly dark skin, under 5'2 or over 5'7, or educated, or having an earning potential higher than most men, etc... who would tell me that I should pursue a younger (early 20's) Chinese girl, because I was too successful to "settle" for them, no matter how many times I assured them that by American standards, they were wonderful!
(Of course, they may have just been finding polite ways to reject my initial interest, but it didn't seem like it.)
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posted on
10/13/2012 6:24:19 AM PDT
by
Teacher317
('Tis time to fear when tyrants seem to kiss.)
To: reaganaut1
No surprise they’re seeing the same problems that the West has. Until ‘liberation’, women didn’t really have a choice - they had to get married. Now they can pursue a career and not get married, or get married and not have kids. Give women the option of not bearing the next generation, some will take it. It’s a simply a choice.
But when too many take it, then the population nose-dives, as we’re seeing in virtually all of the West. Yes, there are still kids, but far, far, fewer, and not nearly enough to keep up with the needed replacement rate. Immigration (both kinds) is the only thing keeping this country from the same death spiral, and that is not healthy in the long run either.
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posted on
10/13/2012 6:34:51 AM PDT
by
BobL
(You can live each day only once. You can waste a few, but don't waste too many.)
To: Vaquero
They must have a LOT of fags, huh?
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posted on
10/13/2012 6:35:39 AM PDT
by
Slump Tester
(What if I'm pregnant Teddy? Errr-ahh -Calm down Mary Jo, we'll cross that bridge when we come to it)
To: Teacher317
Be careful, very careful. You are stepping into a clash of cultures.
To: reaganaut1
Seems to me there are far more ‘left over’ men in China, there being a serious sex imbalance in the population.
Stygmatizing these women is a way to try to paper over that dire problem is my guess.
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posted on
10/13/2012 6:58:27 AM PDT
by
Lorianne
(fedgov, taxporkmoney)
To: super7man
Thanks for the advice. I left China over 2 years ago, though. I'm safely back in the shallow end of the American dating pool these days. (Definitely needs more chlorine.)
:^/
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posted on
10/13/2012 7:01:28 AM PDT
by
Teacher317
('Tis time to fear when tyrants seem to kiss.)
To: Vaquero
Don’t they call them cougars here in the States?
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posted on
10/13/2012 7:19:23 AM PDT
by
Hotlanta Mike
(Resurrect the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC)...before there is no America!)
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