A what imbalance?
Hey, sometimes NPR does manage to use the word “women” – for instance in a story that talks about the “gender imbalance” in China. They must have worked out, after a lot of hard thinking, that you can’t have a “gender imbalance” if gender (aka sex) can be swapped for its opposite at a moment’s notice.
Just as in the United States, people born after the 1980s in China are facing the prospect of worse outcomes than their parents. Property prices rise beyond their reach; college graduates have to compete over limited jobs; and a gender imbalance favoring males — made worse by decades of the one-child policy — puts marriage out of reach for poorer men. Hard work no longer seems to be worth it.
Males? Males? What are males? Why don’t they just put on skirts and watch the marriage proposals roll in?
The real outrage in China is that nobody asks sex-selected fetuses how they identify before aborting them. They just look at the genitals and assume.
Yeah, they probably use “woman” when reporting on rapists, or sports champions, or Assistant Health Secretaries who are TiMs.
Oh no, “a gender imbalance favouring males” you say? That sounds terrible for females, to be seen as lesser beings. What are the effects of that? Problems for some men? Okaaaay…