China’s ‘Left Over Women’ – On the Shelf at 27
Strange then, that the myth continues to be promoted (even within the MRM) that because a woman’s ‘peak fertility’ is around the age of 23 – 25, this is the age at which she is most sexually attractive to men. Of course, this fails to take into account the number of fertile years a woman has ahead of her, which is rapidly diminishing even during those supposed ‘peak’ years. Something that is obvious to any man (and his penis) through visual clues of youthfulness, the most important of which is the level of collagen in the skin, which declines from around the age of 16 in females, and the restoration of which is at the center of a multi-billion dollar cosmetics industry. A cosmetics industry that places advertisements in papers such as the Daily Mail, read by middle-aged women, that gloatingly report on ‘sick perverts’ and ‘paedophiles’ who have been jailed for having sex with the teenage girls those female readers would literally kill to look like again.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21320560
Over 27? Unmarried? Female? In China, you could be labelled a “leftover woman” by the state – but some professional Chinese women these days are happy being single.
Huang Yuanyuan is working late at her job in a Beijing radio newsroom. She’s also stressing out about the fact that the next day, she’ll turn 29.
“Scary. I’m one year older,” she says. “I’m nervous.”
Why?
“Because I’m still single. I have no boyfriend. I’m under big pressure to get married.”
Huang is a confident, personable young woman with a good salary, her own apartment, an MA from one of China’s top universities, and a wealth of friends.
Still, she knows that these days, single, urban, educated women like her in China are called “sheng nu” or “leftover women” – and it stings.
Who are you calling “leftover”? Huang Yuanyuan (front) and her colleague Wang TingtingShe feels pressure from her friends and her family, and the message gets hammered in by China’s state-run media too.
Even the website of the government’s supposedly feminist All-China Women’s Federation featured articles about “leftover women” – until enough women complained.
China’s Bachelors Hustle to Make Money and Attract Wives
In China, men overwhelmingly outnumber women. The ratio of men of marriageable/dating age (15-30 years old) to every woman is 1.15 — an unusual imbalance that’s created a rat race of bachelors vying for the affections of a limited pool of young women. Many may want to marry, but never will.
Men started outnumbering women in 2002. It has become almost an unspoken prerequisite for bachelors to have enough for a down payment on a home before attracting a wife. Which, in turn, has bred fierce competition among the male population.“Acquiring wealth becomes far more important,” says Wei, director of the Jerome A. Chazen Institute of International Business at Columbia. In fact, China’s bachelors helped drive its growing housing market. Last year, Wei and other experts published a study that showed up to 48% or ($8 trillion worth) of the rise in property values across 35 major cities is linked to the country’s gender imbalance.
Over the past 10 years, China’s economy has grown about 10% annually. Wei estimates the gender imbalance, on average, contributed 2 percentage points annually during that period.
History suggests the growth has to slow. Typically when income per capita reaches about $17,000, growth on average starts declining about 2% a year. In China, income per capita in 2011 stood at $5,445. It will be some time before it reaches its peak, but growth has already started decelerating. In 2012, GDP growth slowed to 7.8% from 9.3% in 2011 and 10.4% in 2010.
Yet the country’s demographic kink could offset future slowdown, Wein says. Over the next 10 years, the male-to-female ratio will rise to 1.2 men per woman, in part, one of the many unintended consequences of China’s three-decade-old policy limiting couples to one child in a culture where parents overwhelmingly favor males over females.
That’s the great irony of our times; maintaining a youthful appearance well past your teens and 20s is a multi-billion dollar industry, eternal youthfulness is one of the highest ideals in our society, particularly for women but increasingly also for men… while depictions of actual youthfulness, of persons who are actually in their youth years, are increasingly being outlawed.
How twisted is that, when you really think about it.
And that is very well at the core of most of all the pedohysteria legislation that declares 17-year-olds chilren and in some countries even bans images of persons who just vaguely might be construed as looking like they are… bitter dried-up middle-aged women (teamed up with old-school conservatives) actually have to go as far as downright outlawing competition in the hope that it makes them look less faded.
inclinedreader
21 Feb 13 at 10:47 am
The policy of selective abortion is widely blamed as yet another evil deed of the patriarchy. The culprit is elsewhere.
How could it be in the interest of men to have loads of men around? As though men loved to be outnumbered and cock-blocked by a surplus of other men. Men prefer to be surrounded by as many women as possible just as women want the reverse.
And since women are in control, it’s women who have selectively aborted girls as a way of rarefying pussy and keeping its price up.
jack
21 Feb 13 at 12:32 pm
@Jack
The same point is made by Advocatus Diaboli, of http://dissention.wordpress.com/
Columnist
21 Feb 13 at 3:23 pm
@Columnist: I haven’t found the passage your seem to refer to, but the blog is an interesting one. He seems to have topped the “two million hits”. Maybe he’s done so because he’s included some links to nude pics at regular intervals between the writing. Could it be the way for a serious blog to attract men? Men would google for images and stumble upon the blog. Clever.
Jack
21 Feb 13 at 5:27 pm
Speaking of that post
http://dissention.wordpress.com/2012/01/18/asian-women-plan-and-commit-female-infanticide/
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21 Feb 13 at 9:21 pm
I posted an article a while back on femihags in London protesting at the opening of a Playboy bar, and illustrated the post with a picture of a beautiful Playboy model (whenever I publish a picture of a femihag, I try to post a pic of a beautiful girl to restore some karma). Anyway, the picture of the model got to the top row of Google image searches for ‘playboy’. As a result, for some time about half of my traffic to this site came from that one picture. Unfortunately, I doubt if 0.01% of them even spent 30 seconds checking out what this site was about. They just want some Playboy pics to fap off to.
InMalaFide posted sexy pics quite often, and I’m sure that contributed to its high traffic (not so much Googling images, but just manosphere guys preferring some eye candy as well as opinion).
There are also potential legal problems to consider, as well as possibly being classified by Google as a porn site, which I assume would get me pushed further down the rankings for such terms as ‘history of feminism’ or ‘false rape accusations’. In fact, I probably have been penalized by Google in some way, as I don’t seem to get the traffic I should from Google for a site as established as mine.
theantifeminist
21 Feb 13 at 9:57 pm
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2281621/Thats-LOT-mirror-time-Women-spend-year-lives-applying-make-up.html
The average woman spends over a year of her life trying to look like an attractive young female.
But midlde-aged women with power would never abuse that power to unfairly compete with attractive young females with no power (aside from sexual). LOL!
theantifeminist
21 Feb 13 at 10:04 pm
There are also potential legal problems to consider, as well as possibly being classified by Google as a porn site
The clever bit about the above site is that he didn’t actually post the pics on his site. He only had the links with a short but sufficiently explicit next to the link. I wonder whether you get classified as a porn site if the pics are viewable through links. Note that for the larger public being a porn site may be more reputable than being an MRA site.
jack
22 Feb 13 at 9:02 am
Speaking of Google, I know of a Leftist, Gerrit de Wit, who succesfully campaigned to have all his pictures removed from the search results.
Columnist
22 Feb 13 at 9:05 am
Yes you do – Google checks both the links going out and coming in.
Another interesting question is why the porn industry doesn’t become politically aware. For example, if just 10% of porn sites placed a banner promoting a group, any group, fighting to keep porn legal, then given that as we’re told that 50% of internet searches are porn related, that would be political advertising on a scale that even Obama couldn’t buy.
Of course, not even 0.001% of porn sites would be willing to do that. Take the profit and run. Pornographers are the biggest bunch of dog eat dog paedocrites and white knights you can imagine.
theantifeminist
22 Feb 13 at 10:54 am
It was common gossip that Jimmy Savile liked ‘young’ people : http://theantifeminist.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/jimmy-savile-young.jpg
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21543322
In other words, in the future, perhaps under new laws, mere gossip from women that a man prefers ‘young’ people, rather than middle-aged hags and cougars, will lead to him being investigated for paedophilia.
theantifeminist
22 Feb 13 at 12:07 pm
The trick to balancing the porn content is the ratio and explicitness. If 9 out of 10 posts are about some issues other than porn, the 1 in 10 post with a few naked chicks does not matter.
Plus you don’t link to ad-content from larger porn sites. That way you can have the extra traffic without killing the page rating. Based on some of the queries that lead to my site, it is obvious that a few nekkid chicks here and there don’t matter.
Then again, I am aiming it at a very specific audience who reach my site via pretty specific queries.
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23 Feb 13 at 2:57 am