If Singapore women can freeze their eggs, what do we guys get ?

First of all, I just want to say that I'm in support of new initiatives for Singapore women. The execution was a little iffy because when it comes from reproduction, it is inevitable that men will be affected by the changes but this has been swept under the carpet as it is framed as primarily a women's issue.

But it's not. I think talking about this issue from men's perspective is politically incorrect, but it's not wrong.

If you think deeper. The impact of these policies on men, especially single men in the future, can be quite deep.

Basically, young women now have a choice - they can start families when their biological clock is ready, or they can freeze their eggs and start a family later after gaining some headway in their career. This will not see small-scale adoption here - I predict that corporations and multinationals will want to encourage female executives to do this and will respond with initiatives to enable generational adoption that will make egg freezing a social norm.

Where does this leave young men? For one thing, the pool of marriageable women will shrink with women in their 20-30s leaving the marriage and breeding pool. Men won't complain about this, as they can just spend more time making money to build up their own value as a mate. But there will be some men straddling the borderline of marriage eligibility who will lose out more in starting families and they will need to hold to a higher standard - freezing and preserving eggs cost money - this raises the bar for single men in Singapore.

Furthermore, even if a women is reproduction-ready in 40 thanks to modern science, we 're not too sure how susceptible single men, who are by then quite well endowed financially, will be attracted to them. If I'm a financially independent guy in the future in my 40s, I will do what Mother Nature programmed me to do - find someone in her mid-20s. So I find the argument that women who want to freeze their eggs because they can't find a Mr. Right flawed. If you can't find a guy in your 20s, what makes you able to find a guy in your 40s?

I think policymakers, in enabling egg freezing, should in another forum, recognise the difficulties of being single men. Yes, there is the Patriarchy and all that, but men are still going to be judged as a mate based on how strong they are as providers. Just because you let women freeze their eggs, they will not suddenly go after that soft-effete caring empathic beta male overnight.  A lot of borderline eligible men will join my constituency as BBFA incels. 

One idea I propose is to speed up and streamline the process for single Singaporean men to find foreign spouses and widen the pool of marriage ready women in their 20s for Singaporean men who emerge from the corporate rat race in their mid-30s. There is a serious bureaucratic snarl with some wives getting social visit passes because their husbands are discriminated based on their educational qualifications. I say we grant them citizenship once they produce Singaporean babies.

As a society we really need more babies, no matter where they come from. So if I start a political party for BBFAs, my party battle-cry in the light of egg freezing for women would be :

Every Sperm is a Good Sperm!