The Economist
Young women influenced by feminist ideology have become increasingly hostile toward men.
Meanwhile, feminist groups have alienated many plain hard-working men,
what they call ordinary yet confident men
to the extent that some no longer dare to pursue marriage or start families.
These are the words of a blogger known as Pong Huetang,
who regularly shares similar views with his 50,000 followers on the Chinese platform, Juho.
And he's not alone.
Many of China's young men are frustrated by the country's rapidly changing gender dynamics,
and some are turning to the manosphere to vent those frustrations.
Decades of sex selective abortion under the one child policy has left China with a surplus of men.
By next year, there will be 22.5 million more marriage age men
than women for them to couple up with.
And at the same time, families with only daughters have produced a generation of young women
who are better educated, more assertive, and far less willing to settle for less accomplished men.
Add to the mix a slowing economy and a culture heavily influenced by Confucian ideas on gender,
and the result is a collision.
Economically squeezed, traditionally minded men versus increasingly empowered women,
playing out in plummeting marriage and birth rates
and a torrent of online vitriol that the Communist Party is struggling to control.