Feminists

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.