The problem is that the women they have are opting to be single. The state need only take that choice out of their hands.
This will probably trigger a civil war between the idealistic white knights who would die for women to be free of the state, and the pragmatic statists who will gamble their lives for a state patriarchy is the law. That quite conveniently solves the oversupply problem.
This will probably trigger a civil war between the idealistic white knights who would die for women to be free of the state
No one's that principled, least of all Chinese bugmen.
We saw a preview of how this would go down when the Taliban took over Afghanistan again and feminists did their usual protests. Kill most of the white knights, make very public examples of female figureheads; the men will be too scared for their own skin to defend Women's Rights™, and the women will put on their trash bags and go back to the kitchen.
The oversupply of men is not an issue at all.
The problem is that the women they have are opting to be single. The state need only take that choice out of their hands.
This will probably trigger a civil war between the idealistic white knights who would die for women to be free of the state, and the pragmatic statists who will gamble their lives for a state patriarchy is the law. That quite conveniently solves the oversupply problem.
Both of those things are serious problems
I have every confidence in the Chinese government's capacity to unalive excess men. Either directly or by giving them some foreign beach to storm.
No one's that principled, least of all Chinese bugmen.
We saw a preview of how this would go down when the Taliban took over Afghanistan again and feminists did their usual protests. Kill most of the white knights, make very public examples of female figureheads; the men will be too scared for their own skin to defend Women's Rights™, and the women will put on their trash bags and go back to the kitchen.
Mhmmm. That's certainly the ideal.
But because of my particular faith I never rule out the hypothetical possibility of people being willing to die for dumb ideas.