Hi,

Female foeticide is one scary truth.. Recent polls have shown that the number of females are slowly decreasing due to illegal sex determination and selection.
Baby girls are aborted,murdered,abandoned,sold and many of them who are sold are employed as servants or pushed into the sex trade.

What do you think of this sick and gruesome practice?

I do suppose that these "practices" or "customs" stem from the views that females are the "weaker" sex. After all, we guys can do pretty much a lot of things any time of the month. We also do not carry heavy after-sex luggages for nine months. We don't usually experience hot flushes or mood swings in our late forties and, given the chance, we can still actually pro-create far into our sixties and seventies (assuming we can get "it" up)

With these in mind, it is no wonder that a lot of males bully the females into submitting to them. They are made to serve, in every sense of the word. Also, some cultures frown on having a first-born daughter. Maybe they don't believe a woman can handle the responsibilities of a first born, hence, female infanticide.

Well, those are just my musings, which does not necessarily mean those are my viewpoints

Interesting.......

I had thought of the same thing that you had written but I dont know why people think that way. I mean I can understand the older generation thinking that boys are the future

But studies have shown that many young Modern couples are doing it not out of pressure but because of their own wishes. When right now we speak of growth and development, There is nothing but retardation and stagnation of logical thinking.

Think about it if there were No more girls left and only a rare group surviving.....1 girl married off to 5 guys or something...

Man is already on a mission to exhaust all species and resources....I guess he will not stop until he makes the female species Extinct too.

Cheers

Well, in most cultures that practice female infanticide, it is usual for a girl, when she grows up, to go and live with her husband's family while a man, on the other hand (and his wife) stay with his parents.

So most parents in these cultures view a girl child as a 'bad investment' - yes I know, that's so cold blooded, but that's how they think. To them, if they look after a son, bring him up, etc. he will look after them in their old age - a girl on the other hand, will leave them after all that and look after her husband's family.

Worse, in many such cultures it is a MUST for the girl's family to give a large dowry to the boy's family at the time of marriage. So if a family has two or three daughters, getting them married will probably bankrupt their aged parents completely. And society places an intense pressure on the parents to get their daughters married.

So you see, the issues are very complicated. It is difficult to eradicate female infanticide in such cultures without re-educating people completely - and these things are SO ingrained in these cultures, over hundreds, if not thousands of years, that I wonder if it's possible.

Whatever the reasons behind it, it's a cold blooded and terrible evil, there's no doubt about that. Great topic, Velma.

Sadly, I'm not going to disagree with the above, only to add that the sad truth is that female infanticide has been the norm for many many generations. For a long time now in China, since they've been limited to just one child, the females have been destroyed and the parents try again and again if necessary to birth a male. This might make some a bit queasy, but there have been persistent reports out of mainland China of rampant cannibalism which is also reported from some other Asian countries. As long as males are more valuable to build armies with and to work the land with, they'll always be the preferred of the two genders. But, I think most rational people would just accept what they've created from their unions especially if there wasn't a "baby-cap" to control population growth. I learned of infantacide in college along with other fun tricks like genital mutilation and so forth. Just be glad you don't live in a country where the practice of munching on infant legs isn't acceptable... yet.

You mean like your current avatar? It disturbs the life out of me.

But to me abortion is abortion—no matter what the gender. Usually always done and decided upon for the wrong reasons. Yes, it is a sad and horrible thing that females are actually targeted. We need the women; we truly "can't live without them" as part of the proverb goes—i'm not really fond of the other half of the proverb. Anyways, i don't have much to say on the matter besides that i am against it—i'm not gonna even try to explain why such a thing exists.

True, true. All that blood and gore XD Oookay, this is so off-topic, I'll shut up for a while

Hello,

I guess Iam the only one who found my avatar funny......My boss was freaked out by it but My godfather was proud of me and laughed his bottom off..

Anyway I have nothing to post so I will not try to get free credits.

Cheers

This post has been edited by velma: Apr 12 2007, 10:48 AM