That burn did a surprising amount of damage . <| sep |> I clicked thinking this was going to be an article drawing attention to the fact that now less than half of the world ' s population is female due to female feticide , but then that orange Everyday Feminism banner loaded . I guess , according to this article , trying to publicize the fact that the world ' s human sex ratio has changed dramatically due to sexism would be transphobic . Because it would be offensive to say that most aborted fetuses are female since we don ' t know their gender identities . And hey , a bunch of those male fetuses that parents are choosing to keep might actually be girls , so it probably all evens out ! I am so frustrated with how much time and energy liberal feminists are spending on bullshit . We have real problems that need our urgent attention , and navelgazing asshateries like this article are making it harder to talk about sexbased oppression . In humans , this balance has been remarkably even , but the past few decades have seen a substantial shift towards men , notably in some Asian countries . The reason , however , is not biological there has simply been a cultural preference for sons in the affected societies , which together with recent availability of prenatal sexselection technologies has led to widespread female feticide .