China’s Women
Mao wanted to ship them over here. By the boatload:
Commies used their people like cattle, shipped them all over the place in large numbers. Entire populations, erased or relocated, piecemeal, wholesale. Warhol’s supposed to be about consumer society but as the art chosen by CNN here shows, not a bad metaphor for the kind of premeditated playing around the commies did, only the colors ought to be limited to drab gray and a particularly vile, paranoid green, with a gallon can of blood red Jackson Pollocked over the whole thing. As long as the state is leaping forward, and no one’s being exploited by some greedy capitalist, everything’s good.
In fact, the Chinese women deal did go through, if not exactly in boatload allotments or, as far as I know, as part of any trade deal. Correct me if I’m wrong about that last part. Maybe they tucked it in a treaty. But thousands of unwanted Chinese girls find loving homes in America each year, ironically ending up with better lives and opportunities than most of the wanted boys who stay behind.
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 2:42 pm Comments (2) on Friday, February 15, 2008
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February 15th, 2008 at 4:40 pm
China’s growing surplus of boys worries the hell out of me. What happens to a society when its boys hit puberty, start looking in interest at the opposite sex, and realize that there aren’t enough girls to go around? I’m pretty sure that’s unprecedented in human history, and as the father of three boys and a former boy/young man myself, I’m also pretty sure it’s going to be a bad thing.
February 16th, 2008 at 9:43 am
Fatty, it actually isn’t unprecedented, and when it happens, historically a surplus of military age males results in a war for someone until the surplus is reduced by the females of the conquered.