Why Chinese men want to be women

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In China, women retire at 50. Men have to wait until they're 60.

A few years ago, a man who lives in China had gender reassignment surgery so he could retire early. Now his story is trending, and Chinese men are saying it's a brilliant idea.


China's economy is in trouble, and thanks to the 1-child policy, there will soon be too few workers to support retirees. Things can only worsen if there's a wave of men having these surgeries to retire early.


side note: the 1-child policy changed recently. The population is now encouraged to have 5 or more children. However, marriage is way down due to high unemployment, severe wage cuts, and elementary schools now charging tuition.
 

I think you left out the big reason, that women don't want children. I just saw another story where several Chinese guys had wives leave them with the kid and disappear, complaining that the men couldn't provide the women with as much as they wanted.
 
China has a big Army to absorb the excess of young men who can’t find a wife. This is a great example of how central planning by bureaucrats can backfire big time. Combined with a somewhat lackluster economy, Chinese women are not having babies of any sex. Women live longer and retire earlier….. How’s that working for their equivalent of pension funding?

I sometimes thing China should bring back the dowry tradition. Except in this case, young sons should come with a dowry to help them compete for a wife.
 
Murrmurr said:
The population is now encouraged to have 5 or more children. However, marriage is way down due to high unemployment, severe wage cuts, and elementary schools now charging tuition.
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I can't find anything to support that statement - one child policy has been reversed and there is now a 3 child cap.

That doesn't mean people are encouraged to have 3 children, just that it is a capped amount.

The one child policy served its purpose - china's population could not keep exponentially increasing.
 
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I can't find anything to support that statement - one child policy has been reversed and there is now a 3 child cap.

That doesn't mean people are encouraged to have 3 children, just that it is a capped amount.

The one child policy served its purpose - china's population could not keep exponentially increasing.
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According to Lei, the woman in that video, the CCP publicly encourages couples to have as many as 5 children. Publicly in China only, that is.

And it is very likely that China's population is not as high as the CCP says it is. But the point Lei makes here is that the economy is far worse than the CCP says it is, and the people are very dissatisfied.
 
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So odd that at one time China only allowed one child per family. Then after years of this, I read that Chinese women (and men) decided that was a good thing. Now it's a bad thing, but the Chinese are still happier with a small family. Of course a lot of what I've learned may be heavily fortified with propaganda from both continents.

Small families may not be good for the economy, but large families don't help overpopulation at all, but there's just one more set of opposing realities that the government can make worse.
 


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