May 20 is similar to our Valentines’ Day. Last year, a colossal amount of flowers changed hands, from men to women. But not this year. Something happened. The simps are gone.
Flower sellers, unable to sell flowers even nearly for free, ended up putting loads of unsold flowers next to garbage cans. All that a man had to do was pick up some free flowers and give them to a girl. But, no.
Only about five years ago, we would say that the great mass of blue-pilled simps will never really be changed. There was a little band of MGTOW-ish men, that might grow from 2% to 10%, not really changing anything in the bigger picture. But, a country with more than a billion people basically switched off like a lightswitch.
Apparently, the Total Fertility Rate in Shanghai is now 0.6, and still falling. This is interesting, because it is a whole different culture, with a whole different legal system, but very similar patterns. There is one difference throughout Asia, which is that there are a lot fewer single moms. China’s government actually banned unmarried women from giving birth — whatever that means. The lower TFRs in Asia compared to the US can basically be accounted for by the large number of births to unmarried women in the US. The married TFR in the US is about 0.6*1.6 or 0.96.
Professional women are having a very hard time of it — worse, I would say, than in the US.
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