I was arguing with some idiot who thought the sole reason there are a lot more men than women in China is because parents are fucking murdering their female babies en masse because of the one child policy so that they can try again for sons. Some other moron chimes in to defend them, and I bring up as an example Cyprus and Armenia which have a similar divide, and I’m like, do you think they’re also murdering their female children because of a one child policy? AND MOTHERFUCKER IS LIKE “Well, judging from the stats, I’m guessing yes”. Like, Cyprus is in many regards extremely similar to Greece, practically the same country in some regards, and there are lots of Cypriots as well as Armenians here. It’s so fucking weird to see some idiot have such a braindead and offensive take about something so close to you. I can only imagine how it is for the people who actually live in “evil” countries the “west” actually hates.
I basically told him that and how stupid his take is, so he said some shit about how “uh well I don’t know about these countries specifically and I said I’m GUESSING which means I didn’t know for sure” and then some shit trying to gaslight me that I was actually the one talking about Cypriots murdering their babies.
I unironically believed that until right now, now I have no idea what the reason is.
A lot of rural people paid bribes or slipped past the system to have their newborn girls not be registered. The government later found out that this was happening and has a program to give these undocumented women IDs.
Even lib sources were reporting on it, before Yellow Peril II started: https://edition.cnn.com/2016/12/01/asia/china-missing-girls/index.html
So you’re saying the lopsided gender ratio was fake all along? What about in those other countries OP was talking about?
