can't they just put them in Mitt's binders?

makes me uncomfortable. I know that, by and large, there is a lot to love about the Chinese people. But their government seems to use and abuse certain aspects of their culture to enhance their control over the people. I hate it.

Meaning just that: their government, not the people (their government is already doing that to them).

They aborted or abandoned so many girls that the ones being left lonely are the men. This is an attempt to put pressure on the women to take whatever guy makes an offer.

IIRC, many young Japanese women are looking at married life and deciding to remain single!

Hard to tell anything for sure coming out of there.

So the only reason for a woman in China to get an education is to be more competitive as a future wife?

Are they not allowed to use that education to make a contribution to society?

Marry and reproduce.

Expect more of the same from our own Right Wingers.

With that culture. I read a lot of fiction by Chinese-American women, and the terms for an unmarried woman in her late twenties have never been flattering. Something like "left-over holiday cakes", meaning well past the expiration date, is the usual term.

It's long been a tradition that families want lots of sons, to insure security for their old age. Hence women have been urged to marry young, and start producing them. How this squares with China's present attempt to limit their population growth baffles me though.

And "feminist" it definitely ain't! Confucian, yes, but like most male religious founders, he had a pretty low opinion of women.

a child, to get artificially inseminated and make sure the fetus is female, and TO HELL with those men. Unbelievable. I think those 'average or ugly' women ought to gather together into large 'communes' and reject marriage altogether.