In 1991, there was a single district with a sex ratio over 125; by 2001, there were 46.Conventional wisdom about such disparities is that they are the result of "backward thinking" in old-fashioned societies or in China—of the one-child policy.
But that does not mean that old-fashioned theocratic societies are generally healthier, and less conducive to violence, than modern ones.
Given the nature of the material, these efforts usually have scholarly substructures, but they are, at heart, good old-fashioned appreciation societies.
Old-fashioned totalitarian societies control information by suppressing what they consider inconvenient for their people to hear, while the more sophisticated capitalist democracies control information by swamping the truth in a deluge of disinformation, through which it is virtually a full-time job to sift.
What about a good-old fashioned breakdown of society?
Maybe Manhattans or Old Fashioneds.
In 1950, Lynchburg was still a mill town, most of its factories old-fashioned and its society hidebound, stratified, and segregated.
Mr Bradford and Mr Bingley - the friendly, if rather old-fashioned, face of the society for 25 years - have been given their marching orders.
Across the developed world, women who stay home are increasingly seen as old-fashioned and an economic burden to society.
Those of us who, like Jack Monroe, yearn for old-fashioned Labour policies and a fairer society, need to think calmly about this rather than swapping heated accusations.
"I will always be British, no matter what my passport says, but I feel French in terms of old-fashioned ideas like solidarity, community and society; 1960s kind of ideals.
