Fake videos show frustrated, unmarried, childless middle-aged women crying and venting in hospital hallways about their life choices.

  • Hawke@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    The one child policy really gonna be up there with killing all the sparrows long term…

    Except that killing the sparrows was a bad idea.

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      13 hours ago

      Getting rid of pests was the problem, and it was a real one…

      Killing all the sparrows was a legitimate attempt to help that backfired.

      Overpopulation was and still is a problem.

      One child would have theoretically been managed, but ignored how people act individually and the desire to have a son. An honest and legitimate attempt to mitigate a real problem backfired.

      I feel it’s an apt comparison, even if I didn’t explain enough at first

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        13 hours ago

        Yeah… the difference is that one (sparrows) was just a bad idea due to a total misunderstanding of the problem. The sparrows weren’t the pests, the bugs they eat were.

        The other (one child) is a good idea that was poorly managed due to unexpected cultural mores. Even so it would still be effective once people are “incentivized” to give up on the foolishness of prioritizing one sex over the other.

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          12 hours ago

          Well, you might not understand it, but you learned how to repeat it at least

          We’ll call it a win I guess.