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by scorciapino 5955 days ago
Meh, this is a war against MEN.

In a society with such a gender imbalance, women can be more picky and some men are left without hope of getting a partner. Without a partner, what are they going to focus on life, if not work? And who is gonna get their money when they die?

Communists may be evil, but they aren't stupid, so it's unlikely they haven't foreseen this.
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lionhearted 5955 days ago
> Communists may be evil, but they aren't stupid, so it's unlikely they haven't foreseen this.

I'm in Cambodia right now. Communists are, in fact, quite stupid in addition to being evil. However, that doesn't really pertain to the infanticide thing, which is more a characteristic of very poor areas than communism.

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orborde 5955 days ago
It's only great for the women who aren't murdered at birth. I'm not sure there's a clear winner in this gender war interpretation of yours.

EDIT: Did the math and concluded that for a normal sex ratio of ~103 to turn into one of 120, you'd have you be losing 14 of every 100 females through either prenatal abortion or unreported killing at birth.

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hga 5955 days ago
Actually, things tend to get really ugly for girls in a society where they become a scarce and valuable resource for their families. E.g. their value is in what can be extracted in the marriage market (note the comments on how this is skewing savings in the PRC), not in what they intrinsically are.

All in all I'd have to say this helps explain why the PRC is ramping up their police state (e.g. see http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870424050457458...)

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