Gendercide

Thirty Bills Unpaid
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Just watched It's A Girl.

"More females are missing on earth today from gendercide than the combined number of deaths from all genocides of the 20th century."

In India, the dowry system has resulted in current child sex ratios as high as 126:100 (boys to girls). Laws against dowries are ineffective and in short, boys offer families the opportunity to gain wealth and material, whereas girls are seen as a burden to families that are forced to pay them.

Often, men will marry women only to kill them after receiving the dowry.

The poor practice infanticide (they kill the newborn girls). The rich practice sex selective abortions. Laws against gender testing have proven to be useless as well- doctors readily perform the tests for money.

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  • Thirty Bills Unpaid
    Thirty Bills Unpaid Posts: 16,881
    In China, the 1 child policy has seen negative results.

    13 million abortions a year (many forced).

    122:100 sex ratio (boys to girls).

    By 2020, sociologists expect an “extra” 35 million Chinese men — males for whom there are simply no available female partners. That’s slightly more than the population of Canada.

    http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/asia-pacific/china/110615/china-and-the-worst-ever-man-made-gender-gap

    One causal factor for child trafficking in China is the fact that there are fewer females to marry sons to. Families want girls for their sons to marry, but they do not wish to raise them: a daughter is a thief. There are estimates as high as 7,000 kidnappings a year.

    China has the highest rate of female suicide in the world, with most women who decide to end their own lives coming from less well-educated rural backgrounds. The most common means they use to end their lives is the swallowing of pesticides. The social factor may be due to the status of women. Economically, rural women are still not quite independent and do not have economic power. Family violence is also a cause in many cases.

    http://www.internationalwomensday.com/article.asp?m=11&e=14#.U3gML3ZOVdg

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  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    Going to read this tomorrow beyond my initial what-the-FUCK skim, 30.

    Not just as a woman but as a person.

  • morello
    morello Auckland, New Zealand Posts: 6,217
    edited May 2014
    Yep, seriously crazy shit! Aaaagh this world is a fucked up place!

    Don't even get me started on female circumcision! Yep, there is such a thing & yep, it still happens. Oh & it basically means cutting out the clitoris. Sorry, not meaning/trying to threadjack.
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  • rgambs
    rgambs Posts: 13,576
    morello said:

    Yep, seriously crazy shit! Aaaagh this world is a fucked up place!

    Don't even get me started on female circumcision! Yep, there is such a thing

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  • rgambs
    rgambs Posts: 13,576
    the vaginal orifice is also partially closed and the vulva disfigured in many cases...i have seen this, and assisted surgery to reconstruct/undo whats been done to these poor women... It's so sad that females have so far to go yet in this fucked up world...
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  • Thirty Bills Unpaid
    Thirty Bills Unpaid Posts: 16,881
    As a man... I can comfortably say (and have been saying it for a while) the only way this world has a chance is if women run it: no men behind the scenes pulling their strings either- just women and women alone.

    Men can be responsible for working and breeding- with 'play time' built into our schedules.
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  • Thirty Bills Unpaid
    Thirty Bills Unpaid Posts: 16,881
    And to the topic... my daughter brings me more joy than I could ever have imagined.

    It enrages me to think of foul men (and brainwashed women for that matter) seeing children as commodities.

    How low can the human race possibly sink?
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  • cincybearcat
    cincybearcat Posts: 16,959
    So while most people say the next Great War would be fought over water....I'm thinking it'll be fought over women. ;)
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  • cincybearcat
    cincybearcat Posts: 16,959
    Thirty Bills Unpaid said:

    As a man... I can comfortably say (and have been saying it for a while) the only way this world has a chance is if women run it: no men behind the scenes pulling their strings either- just women and women alone.

    Men can be responsible for working and breeding- with 'play time' built into our schedules.

    I think this is just as sexist as saying a man should run it.
    Reality is you need true diversity in the "ruling class" if you want what is best for everyone.
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  • Thirty Bills Unpaid
    Thirty Bills Unpaid Posts: 16,881
    cincybearcat said:

    Thirty Bills Unpaid said:

    As a man... I can comfortably say (and have been saying it for a while) the only way this world has a chance is if women run it: no men behind the scenes pulling their strings either- just women and women alone.

    Men can be responsible for working and breeding- with 'play time' built into our schedules.

    I think this is just as sexist as saying a man should run it.
    Reality is you need true diversity in the "ruling class" if you want what is best for everyone.
    It's never going to happen, but let's start with a dramatic correction... and then work towards a 'balanced' model like the one you appropriately suggest.

    I don't think it is sexist to suggest males are at the root of most significant problems we face in today's world. Start with crime statistics and work your way from there to get the picture.
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  • Thirty Bills Unpaid
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    cincybearcat said:

    So while most people say the next Great War would be fought over water....I'm thinking it'll be fought over women. ;)

    Think of the fevered frenzy in night clubs! Competition will be fierce.
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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,773
    Humans are a brutal beast. But not so much here. We may argue about things here but far as I know we haven't killed one another! ;-)
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • cincybearcat
    cincybearcat Posts: 16,959
    brianlux said:

    Humans are a brutal beast. But not so much here. We may argue about things here but far as I know we haven't killed one another! ;-)

    We haven't run out of women yet.
    hippiemom = goodness
  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    Thirty Bills Unpaid said:

    As a man... I can comfortably say (and have been saying it for a while) the only way this world has a chance is if women run it: no men behind the scenes pulling their strings either- just women and women alone.

    Men can be responsible for working and breeding- with 'play time' built into our schedules.

    I'm kinda with cincy - it / we need a mix of the two. It brings balance.

    I have to say that in all of my working life, my only two bosses that were women (thankfully for a short term) were nightmares to work for. One I won a civil case against for nonpayment of commissions, and the other got off on berating me for non-issues in front of everyone.

    And I think one the best gifts to be given children, daughters especially, are good fathers. Ones who set an example of how women should be treated by how they treat their wives (or husbands, as the case may be) and women in general. Those are the girls who will grow up to not settle, to not get in abusive relationships, to respect themselves.

    Sadly, not all cultures go this route and these poor girls suffer beyond my imagination.
  • ldent42
    ldent42 NYC Posts: 7,859
    The way females are considered worthless, a burden and a bother in some cultures continues to confuse me. Like, where do you think YOU came from? Until someone figures out a way to sustainably reproduce humans without females, we remain vital to the existence of our species. I mean there will always be a small amount of ignorant fools you will never knock sense into (i saw an article about a cab driver getting suspended for wearing a nazi armband, IN NYC. Like, what?) but for a majority of the population to not respect the gender that produces the life that continues the population it is sooooooo stupid.
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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,773
    "What a nightmare to have no women in the world"

    Lou, take it...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fafxyFEE_oE

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  • know1
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    Thirty Bills Unpaid said:

    As a man... I can comfortably say (and have been saying it for a while) the only way this world has a chance is if women run it: no men behind the scenes pulling their strings either- just women and women alone.

    Men can be responsible for working and breeding- with 'play time' built into our schedules.

    I tend to agree. Or at least it should be much, much more balanced.
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  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    brianlux said:

    Humans are a brutal beast. But not so much here. We may argue about things here but far as I know we haven't killed one another! ;-)

    you dont know who ive killed brian. ;)
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  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    know1 said:

    Thirty Bills Unpaid said:

    As a man... I can comfortably say (and have been saying it for a while) the only way this world has a chance is if women run it: no men behind the scenes pulling their strings either- just women and women alone.

    Men can be responsible for working and breeding- with 'play time' built into our schedules.

    I tend to agree. Or at least it should be much, much more balanced.
    please thats like saying if women ruled the world thered be no more wars.. and history has shown that thats bullshit
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    Thirty Bills Unpaid said:

    As a man... I can comfortably say (and have been saying it for a while) the only way this world has a chance is if women run it: no men behind the scenes pulling their strings either- just women and women alone.

    Men can be responsible for working and breeding- with 'play time' built into our schedules.

    yes this here

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