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China Professor's Suggestion That Men Should Share Wife Sparks Ire . by blueAgent(m): 3:32pm On Oct 25, 2015 |
A Chinese professor's controversial suggestion
that poorer men could share wives has
sparked debate online on how to solve China's
gender imbalance.
Zhejiang University economics professor Xie
Zuoshi's proposal has been met with heavy
criticism that it is immoral.
China has one of the biggest gender imbalances
in the world, with about 118 boys born to every
100 girls.
The imbalance is largely due to the one-child
policy and cultural preferences for male children.
Increasing wealth and population movement also
means many women are leaving the countryside
to work in cities, with men who stay behind
struggling to find partners.
'Value of women'
In a piece that was widely picked up by local
media, Prof Xie noted there were reports that
China could possibly have 30 to 40 million
bachelors by 2020.
The huge demand for women and the lack of
supply would result in the "value of women going
up", he wrote.
"Men with high incomes will have an advantage in
finding women, because they can afford the high
price.
"And what about the low income men? One way is
for several men to band together to find a wife.
This isn't some pie-in-the-sky idea of mine. In
some remote and poor areas there are cases
where brothers jointly marry one wife, and they
can live happily and harmoniously."
He also advocated for greater economic growth
so that poorer bachelors could earn more
income and could thus attract women from other
regions such as South East Asia or Africa.
The shortage of wives in some rural parts of
China has led to more men marrying women
from neighbouring countries such as Vietnam
and Myanmar, but has also fuelled human
trafficking. and wedding scams.
'Serious social problem'
Prof Xie's essay, which was published last week
and later picked up by Chinese media, attracted
mostly appalled derision from readers, who
criticised his idea as immoral and illegal.
"If you can't find a mate then don't bother, if
women are just only meant for producing heirs
and have to mate with many men just to solve the
population growth issue, how does this make us
any different from animals?" said Weibo user
Superelfjunior.
Jing Xiong, a project manager with Chinese
women's rights group Media Monitor for Women
Network, told the BBC that the gender imbalance
problem "is basically a problem stemming from
teachings that prioritise men over women".
"And now the solutions are still very much male-
centred. This is extremely ridiculous."
"Prof Xie's suggestion ignores the wishes and
rights of women, and casts women as tools used
to satisfy men's needs for sex, marriage and
reproduction... this suggestion is basically sexual
discrimination."
In a subsequent essay, Prof Xie said he had been
bombarded with angry phone calls and
comments on social media.
But he stuck to his guns, arguing that laws and
morals were mutable.
"If we wave the big stick of morality, keep to the
one-husband-one-wife social contract, and let 30
million bachelors have no women and no hope,
they hate society, then we would have a serious
social problem."
"So please don't talk to me about morals. If we
don't let the 30 million bachelors have women,
their lives would have no hope and then they may
go around raping, killing, setting off bombs... (let
me emphasise that this is a possibility, I'm not
saying they would definitely do that). Don't tell
me that is your morality?" he said. Na waha! see Wahala |
Re: China Professor's Suggestion That Men Should Share Wife Sparks Ire . by divinehand2003(m): 3:49pm On Oct 25, 2015 |
See me see trouble oooo. Share my wife with who? You? Plsssssssssss go back to bed and dream again. Its obviuos this prof is in a state of hallucination of grandeur, dementia , amnesia, or decarum.Or maybe he is eying his neighbours beautiful wife . If there is so much male to female imbalance in China, I propose that the men without partners can move to India, parkistan, Afghanistan or African where there is a greater female population than males. Equation balanced. |
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