Women are bleeding

MAO TSE-TUNG once remarked, “Chinese men are under the burden of three mountains — imperialism, feudalism and backwardness and the Chinese women are under the burden of four mountains — imperialism, feudalism, backwardness and Chinese men.”

According to Mao Tse-tung, the factors that accounted for women’s oppression in China during his time seemed to be parallel and yet coterminous when it came to the welfare, well-being and independence of women.

Mao Tse-tung did not tell the entire story in his analysis of the tribulations of women, how come he elided nature as another variable working in intimate cahoots with the above variables to complexify the biological grammar of women?

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