My room really does randomly smell like honey. And my honey jar is closed. THere are worse things, but it seems rather random.

Speaking of random things, we now have an explanation for the homicidal smurf routine- decided it was based on the gender imbalance I've been told about on the show, which has been shown to raise the crime rate, since there's all sorts of male (in this case)energy that is usually directed at attracting and wooing mates that isn't used in that way, since there are too few women, and it gets deflected into crime. This is a large problem in China now, as the children of the first generation of governmentally limitted births is reaching young adulthood or so (my timing is a bit blurry- ok, more than a bit blurry), and since there's a social prejudice valuing boys higher than girls, more girls were aborted/abandoned since families could only raise one child, and therefore the population is rather badly unbalanced. Besides messing up future generations, it also wrecks havoc on current social structure. Guess this goes for smurfs too.

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I remember reading somewhere that urban couples actually prefer girls, because they see them as more likely to provide for them in their old age. So they actually pay for girls not wanted by rural parents. But that's probably an odd subset.

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Quite possible- I got this info from an article I read somewhere, or that my mom or one of my grandparents read somewhere- unless we heard it on NPR...

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Similar things are happening in India (lots of female fetuses are being aborted), as I just learned in class. And they're dealing with the gender imbalance, especially in rural areas, with situations where 5ish men marry one woman so that they all have the status of married men... But you can see what that's going to do to the population, and probably also to concepts of manhood.
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