Quote:The Great "Social Experiment" that got nuked and shadowbanned in 2 days

Women who don't speak Chinese should also know about the greatest joke of Chinese social media: they nuked a user and shadowbanned almost every screenshot collection on multiple platforms of that user's viral post with record-breaking 2 million likes, which may or may not accidentally revealed the core of marriage to other women.

A female user of the Chinese social media Rednote(Xiao Hong Shu) posted something 2 days ago, asking others how she could make her "boyfriend" marry into her family (meaning their future kids take her name rather than his; the man himself wouldn't change his name), with a dating app style short description of this "boyfriend", and saying they both are of "very similar backgrounds in every aspect". Men flooded the comment section saying she was daydreaming, claiming their "male ego" and "pride" are priceless, so for some woman to have her "boyfriend" marry in and give up his "lineage", she would have to provide him with about twenty million dollars, luxury cars and mansions, or maybe she happened to be the daughter of their provincial governor and will pave the way for his future political life. When other female users refuted those obviously ridiculous conditions of the men, they insisted that it's different for men and women to marry into someone else's family, and the men suffer oh-so-much on their precious ego that they would deserve everything in the world to compensate them.

The OP then edited the post saying that the "boyfriend" whose backgrounds were so similar to her own was actually herself but imaginatively born in the other sex, and mockingly said she never knew that men had that much integrity, would give up on easy money when they could earn so much by simply marrying into women's families. She also replied a men saying that she didn't understand why there would be women who would marry into some men's family without any materialistic compensation. Those men started to delete their comments and change usernames when women started keeping screenshots and screen recordings of the post, and those along with the OP went viral on almost every Chinese platform. Some women started to realize the institution of marriage can never be nice and equal to the two sexes: the sex who have the ability to reproduce are the sex disparaged and suppressed, the sex get driven out of their families to sell out their bodies for a roof to sleep under, and finally their names, identities and existence erased in this process, while the sex who aren't blessed with the power of reproduction receive all the resources of their families, get to keep their names and steal away the reproductive labor of others.

And it ends here. A couple of hours ago, every key word and hashtag related to that post was removed after 2 days of on-and-off shadowbanning of the OP. The OP user's account nuked after men's report barrage. Rednote, as well as every other Chinese social media platform would give up on their money maker only to make way for the patriarchy after the post received 2 million likes, highest ever record of the already nationwide popular app. Now only a few posts apparently written by men remained, preaching apparently unfair "equal" marriages, pretending they're not the beneficiaries of the long-standing institution.

Update: OP's new account also got nuked. Some users of Rednote tried to change their usernames into the now nuked OP's original one, but to no avail: they found out that even her original username is now censored.

Another update: I'm quite curious now if there has been any public discussion like this in other countries, as this really is a "first" in our culture. Or are there any Tiktok/Instagram influencers willing to carry out this "experiment" in their culture?

Quote:In the study a high IQ hampered a woman's chance of getting married, with a 40 per cent drop in marital prospects for every 16-point rise. The opposite was true for their male class-mates, whose equivalent chance of being married rose by 35 per cent for a 16-point rise in IQ. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/jan/23/gender.comment

Quote:coeducation hurts girls: why we need single-sex public schools in Western countries

argument in title. in my (Western) country, you cannot access an all-girls education unless you shell out $$$$ for a private, usually religious school. this ensures that young girls of limited means are forced into coed public schools filled with boys who are violent, pornsick, and exhibiting extremist misogyny at younger and younger ages thanks to influencers like Andrew Tate.

I fundamentally disagree with coeducation. Girls cannot thrive in coed schools. Girls rarely thrive with male teachers. Say what you will about the Muslim world and its awful attitude toward women, but there are more female engineers and mathematicians coming out of countries like Egypt, Jordan and the Emirates than in more gender-equal regions like Europe, North America and Latin America. Why? Because in the Muslim world all schools are single-sex and teachers usually match the sex of the students, so little girls learn math and science from female teachers. Little girls have women STEM role models and learn STEM in all-female environments You can read about more about this phenomenon here, "The STEM Paradox: Why are Muslim-Majority Countries Producing So Many Female Engineers?"

Meanwhile in the West, I went to a coed STEM magnet public school where all the engineering and math teachers were male and all the humanities and soft science teachers were female. The result? Boys bullied the girls harshly in STEM classes. A boy told me in a sixth grade compsci class that "computers are for boys" and the emotionally cold male teacher just laughed when I complained. My only safe haven was English/history class where I had kind women as teachers. As a result, my natural love for science was crushed and I ended up going into the humanities because I associated math and science classes with being bullied by boys. This is a systemic phenomenon in the West; I know many girls and women who pursued humanities despite being good at math and science because they felt that math was "for boys".

Other issues with coed schools:

• School shootings are a big problem in my country. It's gender unequal: boys are doing the killing, girls are doing the dying. Almost no school shooting has ever been perpetrated by a girl or woman, but women and girls are always included in the victims. If we made public schools single-sex tomorrow, I believe we would see a 50% decrease in school shootings. Why don't we care enough about our daughters' safety to make this happen??
  
  
• Sexual harassment and misogynistic bullying. Depending on my age and location, I was sexualized by some male peers while others told me I was ugly and should kill myself because of my ugly face. Almost all of my school bullies were male; girls rarely even insulted me while boys made sport of calling me an ugly b*tch, flat-chested, denigrating my facial features, saying my nose was too big etc... A boy threw a chair at my face once just because he thought I was ugly and wanted to hurt me. So much for "Mean Girls": my problem was never mean girls, it was cruel and violent boys. I'm sure others can relate.
  
  

I haven't seen this topic discussed enough in 4B spaces, but I truly believe we must help the next generation of girls by campaigning for single-sex public education in the West. It's unfair that only rich girls can enjoy the safe haven of all girls schools. Coeducation hurts girls.

Quote:Lilith Jiang, the founder of the all-women cultural space "Half the Sky" in Beijing, said these community-oriented facilities fill a void.

"Men have plenty of opportunities to socialise, while drinking or while exercising," she said.

"Women don't have that."

Down the line, she said non-traditional structures could offer an alternative for single women worried about aging alone.

"Women are constantly told: 'If you don't get married, what will become of you when you get older?'" said Jiang.

"But long-term, all-female shared co-living spaces where women can grow old together could be a solution."

• If people are already considering IVF, it may be easier to overcome one of the greatest hurdles towards this solution: cost. Only those who can afford IVF would choose this (and probably not those with male partners, if I had to guess?), so any moral or practical objections towards IVF itself would already be overridden. I believe IVF is also already increasing in frequency, since fertility rates are going down and the number of single mothers by choice (SMBC) are going up. That is, there is a general audience for IVF; the step towards using IVF to select for girls would be a smaller one than first trying to convince an audience to go for IVF, then sex-selecting. 
  
• Women are growing increasingly aware of the extent of male violence with the emergence of the Internet. We're able to access statistics on male violence towards women and girls, and there are high-profile cases of male violence that likely would have been hushed up in the past (e.g. Gisele Pelicot's case, which was an example of how even wives are not protected from other men by their husbands. A cornerstone of patriarchal marriage). 
  
• I specifically mention sex-selective IVF as opposed to sex-selective abortion because there are many women who would be against aborting their own fetus, even if they are legally pro-choice. If you bring up anything about sex selection to such women, they may picture strangling male infants in their own cribs, or just find the idea of "killing" boys off-putting. But with IVF, this consideration vanishes. Literally no boys are "killed". I may not agree with these women, but I believe that the idea of sex-selective IVF needs to appeal to women from all walks of life to work, as women don't seem to have the solidarity that men do. Some women may be against abortion. Some women may even prefer a daughter for reasons outside of altering the human sex ratio. But the important part is that it happens to begin with, and then we can deal with any major cultural changes downstream. 
  

• IVF is incredibly expensive as of right now. I think the situation may improve as technology and demand progress further, kind of like how computers got less expensive, etc. There are medical procedures which never really came down in price, but I believe that the demand has to do with it. Because of the aforementioned fertility rate drops and the fact that more people want IVF for other reasons, I think the problem of cost may be surmountable. 
  
• There are obviously people who are against sex selection on principle. They may point to countries like China or India, where an overabundance of men exist and women are trafficked as brides. I think this would not be a problem with women... There is no longstanding tradition of men being trafficked for such purposes, for one. And the threat of crime from millions of restless, unpaired individuals is, I would think, diminished if those individuals are female versus male. I mean, I myself am agnostic to the causes of male violence. Genetic, environmental, both... Not really my concern, at this point. My main contention is that it exists, and we need to do something about it. We can observe that men are more violent than women in pretty much every arena of life (control for the number of men involved, of course), so why would that change all of a sudden with an increase in the proportion of women? People would have to provide a mechanism for this, or otherwise you could point out how they're engaging in wild speculation for who knows what reason...
  
  Even if women became more violent as a result of becoming a significant majority, however, you can always ask why the other person has a problem with decreasing the incidence of crimes like PIV rape. Of course, there are women who do commit heinous crimes, and men who don't. But there's not much of a reason to purposefully bring a person with a natural weapon into the world, is there? Anything good a man has done (and of course men have created many useful things, can be wonderful people (up for debate, I suppose)), a woman can also do, and without incurring the risk of gang rape, war rape, and other crimes that are more easily committed with a penis. Someone arguing against the idea of selecting for a girl would have to defend leaving it up to chance, or actively choosing a child that just comes with more downsides than a child of the female sex, with the same upsides at best. There's no moral justification in letting "nature" or random chance decide when humans can make choices that will improve our situation as a species; that's just a coward's choice. 
  

• If people are worried that the mere existence of this choice will destabilize a society, you can always point them to Iceland. Genetic screening hasn't turned that country into a fire and brimstone pit, and I doubt taking out a chunk of the male proportion would actually harm anything. So you would see more women than men on a daily basis. Maybe, depending on the optimal proportion, you would barely see any male people anymore. But frankly, so what? Is it really that important that 50% of the population has a penis? It goes back to what I said earlier about penises... They're neutral at best and a liability at worst. If you replaced many of the men in this world with a female version of themselves, I'm pretty sure the world would become safer, at the very least. 

• Sex selection may pose a threat to the population size of humans. I think because of reproductive dynamics, it is not necessary to have as many men around as some people might think. (Also, see what happens after major wars.) Since sex selection would likely be an incremental process as more and more women get on board, the proportion of men could possibly be "titrated" to prevent pure logistical issues regarding reproduction and the partnering of heterosexual women. The existence of sperm banks already shows that only a small number of men are required for women to keep having children at a feasible level. 
  As for genetic diversity, sperm samples could be retrieved from a large number of men... I'm sure there would be many willing to donate if IVF became more popular and visible. Just because some men might be more immediately popular as donors doesn't mean that we couldn't go into gene libraries if, say, a new pathogen came about... Different women might prefer different traits, anyway, so I don't think the population would be that homogenous. Education can be provided on the perils of low genetic diversity. 
  

Quote:Dongduk women’s university in Seoul was set up to help women in a deeply patriarchal society, but a demographic crisis is putting that under pressure

Quote:Since 11 November, students have staged a sit-in, initially occupying the main building and blocking access to classroom buildings across campus, forcing classes to move online and a planned job fair to be cancelled.

The outcry was sparked by plans for some departments to admit male students but have since spiralled into a wider clash over the future of women-only spaces in a country that is grappling with the issue of gender equality.

“The university’s unilateral decision, made without any input from the students who actually study and live here, left us with no choice but to raise our voices,” one member of Dongduk’s student council says, speaking on condition of anonymity.

In South Korea, women’s universities were established in the early 20th century as one of the only paths to higher education for women in a strictly patriarchal society.

Quote:The Umoja Uaso is an all-female matriarch. In the aftermath of British rule, over 1,400 women became pariahs some of whom found solace in a small village protected by a fence of thorns and barbed wire. Men are forbidden from living in this sanctuary to this day.

Quote:Umoja Uaso ("unity" in Swahili and due to its location near Uaso Nyiro river) is an all-female tribe in Samburu County, Kenya. Closed off from the outside world, the village is like a bandaid for women survivors of violence and genital mutilation and their young ones. Here, all women are welcome to stay, raise their children, date, and enjoy freedom from Samburu traditions of female subordination and find economic empowerment.

Quote:The gender divide has sundered Korean society — and now it’s coming for the U.S.

Quote:The [original] movement [in Korea] formed in response to growing gender inequality and violence against women: Korea has one of the largest gender pay gaps in the world, and brutal murders of women — in subway stations, on rooftops and in their own homes, often at the hands of men they were dating — headline news shows daily. Amid so much political turmoil and bloodshed, 4B activists say the only way to make women safe — and convince society to take their safety seriously — is to swear off men altogether until something changes.

And now, in the wake of Donald Trump’s reelection, 4B is going viral on U.S. social media among women who are furious with the men who helped the former president clinch a win. On TikTok alone, top videos have gained millions of views, and one widely shared tweet about the 4B movement post-election now has 450,000 likes and 21 million views at time of writing.