What do you know, it turns out there’s a price to pay for disvaluing female people.
Men are set to dramatically outnumber women in coming decades, new global modelling of birth sex ratios has found.
Of course they are. Now that technology can tell people what sex the baby is, girls can be Prevented. Amartya Sen famously pointed this out decades ago.
Researchers warn that global long-term stability could be at risk due to the “cultural preferences” for boys in certain countries. Nations with skewed sex ratio at birth are set to “lose” another 4.7 million girls by 2030 — a figure that could reach 22 million by 2100.
The study, published in the journal BMJ Global Health, found that prenatal sex selection has helped skew the sex ratio at birth in favour of boys in several countries from southeast Europe to southeast Asia since the 1970s.
Result? More incels, more violence, most of it against women.
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8 responses to “Dramatically outnumber”
The irony that they’ve probably dramatically increased likelihood that their family line will die out is probably lost on the parents that have preferred boys so much…
It’s Tragedy of the Commons innit. Socially of course they want women, because no sons without them. But individually nobody wants the expense and bother of raising daughters just to have to pay another family to take them.
isn’t this the reason that China abandoned the “one child” policy? The sex ratio is around 105-100 male, meaning millions of men unable to find a woman to partner with. Unless they go all polyandry on that shit.
Yep.
Maybe they could start to think about changing “cultural preferences?” Maybe some traditions aren’t worth keeping? Crazy talk, I know. Heaven forbid that they should start to value girls and women as people in their own right.
Madness YNnB! Next you’ll be expecting cultures that believe women should just shut up, cook, clean and be subservient might consider change. What’s next? Doing away with child brides and genital mutilation? Letting women make their own reproductive choices? That way lies madness. Women will then want safe spaces away from the fear of rape.
@Skeletor (now Mark Hamill):
The amount is for the particularly women hating cultures (southern Europe/southeast Asia) so it’s for a smaller subset of that 10 billion… I’d hazard 2-3 billion.
The Taiping Rebellion (1850-1864) used to be listed as the bloodiest war in history. Turns out that, above and beyond the whole ‘I’m Jesus’ younger brother’ messianic crackpottery, there were several simultaneous sub rebellions, including Islamic ones.
But, of more interest to us is the Nian, or ‘Bare Branch Rebellion.’ (Wiki says 1851-1868). A vague anti Manchu movement without very clear aims.