You can't have your sexism and eat it, too

Pity Chinese men: They're set on marrying women they consider their intellectual inferiors (there's actually an awful saying here--"There are three kinds of people in China--men, women and women with PhDs)", but thanks to decades of female infanticide and sex-based selective abortions, the male:female ratio here is an astounding 119.25 men for every 100 women. By 2025, there are going to be 30 million more Chinese men between the ages of 25 and 40 than women in that same group. Marriage-market beggars, one would surmise, can't be choosers.

I was laughing at this absurdity in class when I realized I was laughing at a potentially devastating demographic time bomb. And am actually a terrible person.