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The CCP really don't want another Tienanmen Square and bend to public opinion when necessary, e.g. the ending of lockdown. Given that a lot of Chinese women feel strongly about this, their government can still prod them a bit, but too much pressure would damage the broader legitimacy of the system.

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Would it? In a society that heavily biases men and within which men outnumber women by a massive number? Surely more than enough dudes would think, even if they'd never sniff the possibility themselves, that such an act would be "setting things right". We see such an action from a distance with respect to "alpha male" social media content in the US, most guys consuming it won't come close to the opportunities it dangles at the end of the rainbow but that don't stop them from endorsing the implied ideas in such content.

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