42 Replies to “China’s One Child Policy: Unintended Consequence #648”

  1. It’s just not the same without boobs. I mean I’m not all about the boobs or anything, but that’s just not the same.
    something’s missing, and I actually watched it all.
    and if Canada is ever invaded by overlords I hope it’s the Brasilians… just sayin.

  2. Very impressive. I suspect that in the next few decades China will also be the source of some of the greatest pleading, begging, love songs ever written.

  6. It is ironic. The Chinese want to breed and can’t. British-Canadians (and British-Americans) can breed, but usually don’t.

  9. That was an amazing display of human physical ability. I may be mistaken, but aren’t girls a bit more flexible for this type of performance?
    Maybe there weren’t enough to recruit for this type of performance.

  11. Okay…. too many boys, so they dress them up like girls (creepy), then try to kill them. Okey-dokey. Comprendo.

  12. marc in c – Chinese women aren’t exactly famous for their boobies anyway. I know – I dated one for a year. However, she made up for it by…. oops OT.. My bad.

  15. Boys, girls whatever, these people are extremely nubile, and extremely talented. I’m sure they could have found girls for the show, but then, we used to have a boy scouts organization and a girl guides for little girls. Well the girls still have their guides, but there is no longer a boy’s scouting organization. Something about little boys learning nasty things without the girls influence on them, you know – sissification? “There is nothing women hate so much as to see men selfishly enjoying themselves without the solace of feminine society.” Katharine Hinkson.
    There will be plenty of time for boys and girls to get together and figure everything out later, though perhaps not so in China.

  16. Is this supposed to be art?
    Its like hanging fractal patterns on your wall and calling yourself picasso. Impressive I guess…

  17. Who knew China would become the gay Capitol of the World?
    Like anything people try to do better than nature, human nature rose up now they have real problems.
    JMO

  18. A truly amazing display of human cerebellar function but I’m not really sure WTF this has to do with the one child policy? As far as why there are no females in this group, males have a higher strength to weight ration than females and I’d hate to think what it would be like to be the guy on the bottom trying to balance a stack of gymnasts 4 high; I don’t think the bones of a female gymnast were designed for those types of stresses. What would be interesting to find out is how many guys didn’t make it to the final group as I suspect there would be some nasty injuries if someones timing was off by a few msec or excess physiologic tremor was present in the bottom gymnasts.
    Maybe this is what it takes to impress Chinese women now.

  19. Well, that effeminate display has put me off men for another year. Between the scarcity of chicks and the truly manly displays of… whatever that was, there’s a few VERY good reasons why Chinese men cant get a date.

  21. Loki: “What would be interesting to find out is how many guys didn’t make it to the final group” Yeh; right. How many boys did they start with and how many dropped out due to broken necks? Good question. I understand China is recruiting girls from Malaysia and other sources. I doubt kidnapping would be above them. Just my poisoned corrupt mind at work, though.
    Can our politicians and industrialists foresee the implications of too many boys in a country run by tyrants? Any indication they can?

  24. Loki, I wouldn’t usually respond, but since it’s you – all those extra men have to find something to do…

  25. If they could have found enough girls, why did they design the boy’s costumes to have chick hips and thighs?

  26. Boys dressed in tights with make up, hair styles, and lots of bum touching.
    Good show though.

  27. “males have a higher strength to weight ration than females”
    Loki, treat yourself to a Chinese acrobat display with girls sometime. They are amazing.

  28. So what. Nice tumbling boys. Its not art unless there are inflatible moose, beavers and canoes.

  29. “Who knew China would become the gay Capitol of the World?”
    Word, Rev. Move over San Francisco, Beijing is the new center of everything frilly. Like those pants!
    On the bright side, maybe Western women will stop being anti-gun dove idiots and start viewing self defense as more important than having their makeup matching their shoes.

  30. Put all those males in uniform, goosestepping all the way to Israel and you have the last book of the Bible. That’s what I think when someone reminds me of the one-child policy.
    If they’re considered effeminate, then no one’s seen Johnny Weir.

  31. This performance should be done to the music of ‘The Nutcracker Suite’. I’d hazard a guess that with the countless hours of practice, more than a few awkward landings occurred 😉

  32. I agree that having a surplus of men is a bad thing, but it might be balanced by the fact that they are “only children”. Parents are much more likely to sacrifice their children to military adventures when they have twelve of them (think WW1) than if they only have one.

  33. as I remember,the Chinese “Ladies Swim Team” was kinda butch as well. Maybe it’s all the MSG.

  34. The Chinese women’s curling team for the Olympics and World championships trained in Leduc, Alberta, for several months before the games. I saw them in the weight room at the rec center fairly often. Their handlers kept a pretty close eye on them… didn’t want us local boys gettin’ too friendly 😉

  35. minuteman:
    Run that by me again please. The reference to WWI.
    You’re not saying what it sounds like you’re saying, obviously. Or, it could just be that you don’t know what you’re talking about.

  36. Gellen – This is just my opinion but, when WW1 happened we had huge families. Loosing a son, if you have four or five of six of them is a tragedy, but not a disaster. If you have one son, and you loose him its a disaster and a tragedy. As families get smaller, we are much less prepared to risk our children in armed conflict. Look at the coverage of the war in Afstan. Every single death is counted and mourned. We have lost less than 150 soldiers. That would have been a quiet unremarkable day in WW1, when are population was nearly 1/4 of what it is now. I am sure Chinese parents are just as protective of their children as we are. There might be a billion Chinese, but each only child is the most precious thing on earth to his parents.
    If you think that this is wrong, I would be interested to know why.

  37. Piper Paul was right, I had the definition wrong, I think I thought it might be related to Nubian I suppose as they are usually quite lithe (in my mind anyway), but you misspelled Larben which is short for Larry Bennett, (if you must know!)_

  38. Thanks for taking the time minuteman.
    Yes, it would seem so on the surface, but I’ve been working for many years on WWI history (as well as WWII) and the number of only sons that were lost, and two and three, is common. There were two only sons killed within days or weeks of each other. Imagine being alone and receiving those telegrams.
    Some of the letters written home by only sons to their mothers trying to prepare and encourage them for what might happen in an upcoming big push are astonishing to read. They had a sense of duty so strong that they prayed their loved ones would respect it and not grieve too much. (That’s certainly been duplicated in many Afghan stories.)
    To say that couples having smaller families now would mean fewer would wish to lose a child to war isn’t well thought out. My neighbours lost their only son to a car crash in which he was the sole occupant. A girl my grandson dated was an only child and a driver crashed into her car as she was waiting, signals on, to make a turn to her home, and died instantly. My husband’s niece lost the only two children she and her husband had when a transport driver crashed into her in a similar accident. These are very common and tragic. If his/her dream was to serve their country, wouldn’t it all be pointless to lose them in a freak accident on your doorstep?
    The loss of a child is the most painful event in one’s life, regardless. To die doing what you want to do best is not to die in vain.
    And as difficult as it will be for those unfortunate Chinese families who lose the child, they will survive as the others did: with a broken heart and crushed dreams.

  39. I was just speaking to my grandmother yesterday and she retold the story of three male cousins from the same family all getting killed in WWII. Her female cousin, sister to the boys, is still in touch with her from England.
    That said, I don’t think you can’t compare unfortunate mishaps in life to a family agreeing to send their only son into military service. Especially considering it is tradition for the Chinese to have their child support the parents in old age.

  40. Don’t know what you’re talking about either, Lily. Losing an only child is losing an only child, of one or all your sons. Volunteering for a Cause, or dying in a stupid accident: it’s still heartbreak.
    With the Chinese, they didn’t make this particular choice, but killing baby girls by parents went on for centuries. If they had been allowed two children, they still might have chosen to kill most of the females.

  41. Actually, countries weren’t enthusiastic about entering WW1 because of large families. A more accurate explanation is that there hadn’t been widespread warfare in Europe for a century (the Napoleonic Wars), and the wars which had occurred -such as the Crimean War, and the German “lightning” wars in the 1860s- were either far away, or so short that the typical European never gained any insight on what war was really like.
    Hence the enthusiasm, and infatuation with “glory.”
    And while I agree that the video is teh ghey, there is a deeper & more troubling consequence. China has raised a generation of young men; horny, wife-less, job-less, and lacking opportunity; which is a recipe for violence.

  42. Actually, countries weren’t enthusiastic about entering WW1 because of large families. A more accurate explanation is that there hadn’t been widespread warfare in Europe for a century (the Napoleonic Wars), and the wars which had occurred -such as the Crimean War, and the German “lightning” wars in the 1860s- were either far away, or so short that the typical European never gained any insight on what war was really like.
    Hence the enthusiasm, and infatuation with “glory.”
    And while I agree that the video is teh ghey, there is a deeper & more troubling consequence. China has raised a generation of young men; horny, wife-less, job-less, and lacking opportunity; which is a recipe for violence.

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