Three young Saudi film-makers, for instance, have languished in prison since mid-October after airing an innocuous documentary about poverty in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, over the internet.
At the starting line of their careers, they are better educated than their mothers and grandmothers had been or than their young male counterparts are now.
That's because very large animals have a slow rate of reproduction, so all you have to do is remove a few young females from the herd, and you can, fairly quickly, significantly reduce the population.
The young man walked sadly away, and when he reached the palace he shut himself into his room, and for the rest of the day refused to see anyone, even his wife.
The oldest son was dismissed as "too much of a playboy," the middle son as "more interested in video games" than governing. Kim Jong-un, they said, was too young and inexperienced.
Wilson admitted he does have high hopes for youngster Wojciech Szczesny, 20, who has impressed on loan at Brentford, but he conceded he was too young for the Arsenal first team.