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In reply to the discussion: Since anyone with a penis is a potential rapist there is only but one (or two) answers: [View all]antigone382
(3,682 posts)40. Another link
http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/01/16/it%E2%80%99s-a-girl-the-three-deadliest-words-in-the-world/
Its a girl, a film being released this year, documents the practice of killing unwanted baby girls in South Asia. The trailers most chilling scene is one with an Indian woman who, unable to contain her laughter, confesses to having killed eight infant daughters.
The statistics are sickening. The UN reports approximately 200 million girls in the world today are missing. India and China are said to eliminate more female infants than the number of girls born in the US each year. Lianyungang in China has the worst infant gender ratio on record with 163 boys born for every 100 girls. Taiwan, South Korea and Pakistan are also countries in which unwanted female babies are aborted, killed or abandoned.
Gendercide in South Asia takes many forms: baby girls are killed or abandoned if not aborted as foetuses. Girls that are not killed often suffer malnutrition and medical neglect as sons are favoured when shelter, medicine and food are scarce. Trafficking, dowry deaths, honour killings and deaths resulting from domestic violence are all further evils perpetrated against women. This femicide has led the Geneva Centre for Democratic Control of Armed Forces to report in Women in an Insecure World that a secret genocide is being carried out against women at a time when deaths resulting from armed conflicts have decreased.
Its a girl, a film being released this year, documents the practice of killing unwanted baby girls in South Asia. The trailers most chilling scene is one with an Indian woman who, unable to contain her laughter, confesses to having killed eight infant daughters.
The statistics are sickening. The UN reports approximately 200 million girls in the world today are missing. India and China are said to eliminate more female infants than the number of girls born in the US each year. Lianyungang in China has the worst infant gender ratio on record with 163 boys born for every 100 girls. Taiwan, South Korea and Pakistan are also countries in which unwanted female babies are aborted, killed or abandoned.
Gendercide in South Asia takes many forms: baby girls are killed or abandoned if not aborted as foetuses. Girls that are not killed often suffer malnutrition and medical neglect as sons are favoured when shelter, medicine and food are scarce. Trafficking, dowry deaths, honour killings and deaths resulting from domestic violence are all further evils perpetrated against women. This femicide has led the Geneva Centre for Democratic Control of Armed Forces to report in Women in an Insecure World that a secret genocide is being carried out against women at a time when deaths resulting from armed conflicts have decreased.
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Since anyone with a penis is a potential rapist there is only but one (or two) answers: [View all]
Whovian
Dec 2012
OP
Women, religions, races... there is oppression far too often but inroads have been made.
Whovian
Dec 2012
#111
It comes from the book Global Woman. I don't have the specific page number handy.
antigone382
Dec 2012
#15
Considering that India and China together has a large part of the population of the world
KitSileya
Dec 2012
#46
I posted a link to a thread I made the other day in an edit to the previous response.
antigone382
Dec 2012
#29
History is more than merely one thing, regardless of what bumper-stickers may say.
LanternWaste
Dec 2012
#64
If you like history, you should be able to quickly research such things yourself. India is
Zorra
Dec 2012
#38
Well the links I provided did offer some history. I didn't expect to have to spell it out.
antigone382
Dec 2012
#73
Shocking! But you do, of course, realize that no example that you post will ever be good enough, no
Zorra
Dec 2012
#72
One of the most common themes in Western art is the "rape of the Sabine women."
CTyankee
Dec 2012
#136
Guess what? *I* can't tell when someone has the intention of trying to mug me...
a geek named Bob
Dec 2012
#39
"There's a lot of implication that men NEED to take special courses." Well, Bob, if the
retread
Dec 2012
#57
gollygee, I learned a long time ago to NOT count on other people for protection...
a geek named Bob
Dec 2012
#127
THank you for the compliment! I will keep in my list of happy thoughts.
a geek named Bob
Dec 2012
#109
I imagine the person who allows only one (or two) solutions to any given problem is either
LanternWaste
Dec 2012
#68