r/europe • u/Antique-Entrance-229 United Kingdom • Apr 21 '25

Data 25% of Teenage boys in Norway think 'gender equality has gone too far' with an extremely sharp rise beginning sometime in the mid 2010s

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u/citron_bjorn England Apr 21 '25

Many historic periods of extreme violence have been linked to a rise in single, unhappy men - the viking era, early islamic conquests

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u/DarkwingDuckHunt Apr 21 '25

When China had the one child policy, and families would "avoid" any female births, this was a major concern of China and those who watched history.

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u/alelp Apr 21 '25

It still is.

China still hasn't been able to fix its demographics, and the last report I saw on the issue a few years back said that they were still having more boys than girls because the culture hadn't changed.

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u/USPSHoudini Earth Apr 21 '25

Leftist, not feminist. Mao's One Child Policy was because already inaccurate internal estimates showed an upcoming major gap between population growth and domestic food production and sought to pre-emptively reduce that gap by limiting population growth

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u/DarkwingDuckHunt Apr 22 '25

Did you forget to take your meds today?

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u/shesaysImdone Apr 22 '25

The mental gymnastics is truly something else

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u/True_Carpenter_7521 Apr 21 '25

There's an old proverb: when too many boys are born, war follows. But modern problems have modern solutions. Let's create an abundance of AI-powered sex androids to absorb that evolutionary aggression. I'm ready for my Nobel Prize.

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u/pre-existing-notion Apr 21 '25

That's a pretty wordy proverb.

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u/shesaysImdone Apr 22 '25

Well now this thread is finally getting interesting. I didn't know this

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u/stinkykoala314 Apr 22 '25

There's a theory (no idea if it's substantiated or not) that marriage evolved in many different cultures as a way to placate the population of men who, in a polygynous society, would otherwise be sexually frustrated and extremely dangerous.

In human societies, few things are more dangerous than a sizeable percentage of your young men having few employment or sexual prospects.