Bloody regressive Guardian

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I hardly ever bother to comment on newspaper articles but I did yesterday to an article about China's "leftover" men who can't find wives.

www.theguardian.com/inequality/2017/sep/28/my-parents-say-hurry-up-and-find-a-girl-chinas-millions-of-lonely-leftover-men

I said that one of the reasons was that there were millions of 'missing' females through abortion or infanticide (60 million to most accounts or 35 million if recent research showing that around 25 million were not actually missing but had been protected by their families by the births not being registered) was accurate.

I said that sadly it appeared to be a case of karma, the former one child policy and preference for sons being partly responsible. It was not said in any serve-you-right way, merely as a statement of fact.

It apparently broke Guardian guidelines.

Unbelievable, seeing the number of insulting or outlandish comments the Guardian apparently has no problem publishing.

I used to love the Guardian. Now, not so much.

The Guardian really only plays lip service to feminism these days. I have lost all respect for it too.

Bloody hell! Why on earth are they removing such a straightforward and uncontroversial comment?

It was not said in any serve-you-right way, merely as a statement of fact.

To be fair, it might not have come over that way when written down. Plenty of other commenters have made the same points you did and haven't had their comments removed.

I don't think that was the case allegretto. I was very careful how I worded it so it wouldn't. The fact that other comments, some not as carefully worded as mine, were left to stand genuinely baffled me. Perhaps it's down to how a particular mod feels.

I stopped commenting ages ago after I criticised someone for outrageous sexism and all their posts got to stay (even though I recall reporting them - but it was so long ago I can't remember if I could even do this) and mine got deleted. Soon after I got put on pre-mod and I fucked them off.

I made much the same comment in real life. It was in reponse to outrage that female embryos were being aborted in some place where females were 2nd class citizens. I said I fine with less girls being born into life of permanent servitude. I think it comes from a refusal to believe "it's that bad" like valuing males over females it's a weird tradition and probably going to sort itself out.

I think the scary prospect with China is that now they have ended up with millions of unmarried men, the thing that would solve the problem would be a large scale war where they body count to be high but would even up the numbers.