During the One Child Policy, a lot of female fetuses were said to have been aborted once the parents found out about their gender. Some were abandoned after their birth.
I’m in a family that has two sons (I’m the second one), because my mother decided to violate the one child policy, and I remember growing up, my mother would often warn me about kidnappings and according to her, the “bad guys” (bad guys? what a nebulous term lol) would “harvest the organs of little boys and [SA] little girls and sex traffic them”…
Like wtf, I have no idea how true that is, since the authorities don’t exactly like publishing real numbers of crime statistics. But like I think this idea of kidnappings just gets spread throuout communities. Like some kid gets kidnapped, then gossips spereads and suddenly everyone is affraid of their kid getting kidnapped. I think thess kidnappings is fueled by the one child policy. I actually ran away from home once when I was in Guangzhou… well I did not get kidnapped lol… (seriously tho, I was like 5-7 or something and I had a fight with my older brother at home, so kid-me made the stupid decision to run away)
My mom actually joked about “selling me” to another family when I “didn’t behave”… wtf mom… are you even my real mom? 🤔
But just to give an idea… they have this genenology book thing, it’s only male names written into it. My mom told me what my paternal grandfather got so excited when he found out that my dad had 2 sons… although I didn’t even like my paternal grandfather, he seems to like my older brother more… I guess it makes sense, if this was a royal family (we’re not, but I’m just using it as an example), my brother would be the oldest son of my paternal grandparents oldest son, so succession goes to him… also I think it’s because he speaks Taishanese better, more connected to the older generation, I only speak Cantonese, cuz my parents never spoke it to me lol… whatever, I like Cantonese better anyways, there’s not even a Taishanese movie or tv show or video game (shoutouts to Sleeping Dogs the game lol)
I have no idea what are the odds of having two male children… like… did my mom have abortions of female fetuses before? No idea, feels so wrong to ask about it… but anyways… I’m here… my existence is weird… I’m an anomoly, and nobody cares.
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During the One Child Policy, a lot of female fetuses were said to have been aborted once the parents found out about their gender. Some were abandoned after their birth.
I’m in a family that has two sons (I’m the second one), because my mother decided to violate the one child policy, and I remember growing up, my mother would often warn me about kidnappings and according to her, the “bad guys” (bad guys? what a nebulous term lol) would “harvest the organs of little boys and [SA] little girls and sex traffic them”…
Like wtf, I have no idea how true that is, since the authorities don’t exactly like publishing real numbers of crime statistics. But like I think this idea of kidnappings just gets spread throuout communities. Like some kid gets kidnapped, then gossips spereads and suddenly everyone is affraid of their kid getting kidnapped. I think thess kidnappings is fueled by the one child policy. I actually ran away from home once when I was in Guangzhou… well I did not get kidnapped lol… (seriously tho, I was like 5-7 or something and I had a fight with my older brother at home, so kid-me made the stupid decision to run away)
My mom actually joked about “selling me” to another family when I “didn’t behave”… wtf mom… are you even my real mom? 🤔
But just to give an idea… they have this genenology book thing, it’s only male names written into it. My mom told me what my paternal grandfather got so excited when he found out that my dad had 2 sons… although I didn’t even like my paternal grandfather, he seems to like my older brother more… I guess it makes sense, if this was a royal family (we’re not, but I’m just using it as an example), my brother would be the oldest son of my paternal grandparents oldest son, so succession goes to him… also I think it’s because he speaks Taishanese better, more connected to the older generation, I only speak Cantonese, cuz my parents never spoke it to me lol… whatever, I like Cantonese better anyways, there’s not even a Taishanese movie or tv show or video game (shoutouts to Sleeping Dogs the game lol)
I have no idea what are the odds of having two male children… like… did my mom have abortions of female fetuses before? No idea, feels so wrong to ask about it… but anyways… I’m here… my existence is weird… I’m an anomoly, and nobody cares.
So… yea… 重男輕女 in a nutshell