A Little Affair of the Women Tang Min Translated and with notes by David Kellogg Fear of pregnancy has become the greatest burden of a woman's emotional life. Married and unmarried women alike live in fear of it. This is the great social question which is not allowed as a social question, for this is a kind of bitterness which the male world will never have to taste. And so pregnancy and abortion have become just a "little affair of the women', worth little more than a joke.