once i was told "there are more men than women in china, therefore women will control the dating market and men will be their slaves."

but then... quotes from https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/living-single/201804/china-s-leftover-women-and-shake-and-bake-husbands

  1. Now nearly 30 percent of urban Chinese women of the same age are single.

how is that possible? short answer : hypergamy. indeed, from the same article

  1. leftovers are often “well-educated urban women with ambition and promising careers.”

quotes from https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/06/china-doesn-t-have-leftover-women-it-has-leftover-men/

200 million single people in China, and men outnumber women by 33.66 million.

so we have 34+83M men and 83M women. that 34M men more are 30% of the male singles.

so women will be able to discard the bottom 30% of men and still marry! will it quench their thirst for hypergamy? of course not! why? because women have no sense of "proper match". they can't stand "dating down"... or more precisely "not dating up enough", no matter the consequences. "no date down" is an unchallenged axiom encoded in their instincts. (how romantic!)

Leftover Women with academic degrees and high incomes are quite able to remain independent, confident, and free.

"we need no men, so are better without men, we want no men". nice cope. in the west we call this feminism. which btw is arguably, at least in china, not a social construct or government conspiracy: it naturally arises from female empowerment in the workforce.

In 2017, the divorce rate in major Chinese cities (Tier 1 and Tier 2) has soared above 30%

why "in major cities"?

The more developed a city is, the more unmarried women it has

leftover strong independent women correlates with divorce rates. married early and got a better job than your husband? divorce! (more on this in PS) how romantic!

A detailed geographic analysis has revealed that there are more “Leftover Men” in rural areas than “Leftover Women” in urban areas.

poor women leave poor men to go "stealing" rich urban men from rich urban females. how romantic!

when it comes to cities alone (especially big cities), there are more unmarried women than single men.

according to the article, in Shanghai the ratio is 4 to 1.

the high-achieving daughters refuse to compromise.

what does this mean? imagine two bell curves. since we are talking about the upper (rightmost) end of the curve and women date up, then they are trying to marry from a more numerous cathergory to a smaller one. no wonder there aren't enough men for them!

it's the FDS paradox. and just like FDS, guess who's also to blame?

Many Chinese men do not want to marry women who are their equals.

men? dear article author, men don't care about money nor status. don't project your greed on us. women had all the cards, but due to incapability of managing their instinct, they fucked up.

The most highly educated Chinese single women—those with PhDs—are “commonly referred to as a ‘third sex,’ because very few men are willing to marry them—not even fellow academics.”

if you women didn't date up, poorer women wouldn't "steal" from richer women the high status men you desperately crave. don't blame us for not marrying for money.

quoting again the first article

Now nearly 30 percent of urban Chinese women of the same age are single.

"but but but the gender imbalance made men disposable!11!1"

indeed that bottom 30% of men is still disposable. but women don't care. they can't get enough. ever.

TL;DR CONCLUSION: female nature sparks a chain reaction. the sex ratio gap is overshadowed by women's greedy nature. we could have 1000M more men than women, it wouldn't change a thing.

A PREDICTION: 30% men will stay unmarried due to lack of women. women's greed will make them fight over the remaining 70%, destroying romanticism, exposing female nature, red pilling men. the bottom 30% will go mgtow. redpilled, gradually the 70% will follow.

POETRY TIME: just like the birth control pill empowered women between 1960s and 2010s, so mgtow will empower men from 2020s to the end of times. we suffered 50 years, but got eternity in return. THANKS FEMINISM.

PS: more on divorce from http://factsanddetails.com/china/cat4/sub20/entry-4334.html

divorce rate is rising all over China, and faster in the cities than in rural areas. Among the factors contributing to the new trend are the new social and economic freedom, the rising expectations that women bring to marriage, and a remarkable increase in extramarital affairs. More than 70 percent of divorces are currently initiated by women with the most common reason being an extramarital affair on the part of the husband.

wanna pretend it is the only reason? but sharing chad is no problem right?

Other reasons for seeking divorce include lack of money, crowded households, arguments with in-laws, one-girl families, and the hardship caused by husbands and wives working in different cities or provinces. Many marriages break up because of verbal and physical abuse by wives. A recent government study showed that many divorces occur after one spouse gets rich, or finds a richer partner.

indeed.

PS2: but even if women dated their male counterpart matches, men tend to be more extreme and different among each other than females, so the male extreme (higher or lower) has less men than the women extreme: "male increased variability hypothesis" ( don't know it? watch this video at 14:40 https://youtu.be/LSXEHsYf8uQ). lower end women match even lower, higher end women match even higher. give women freedom, and you'll have leftovers on both ends. dear chinese communist party, welcome to the market.