China Facing Major Gender Imbalance

*It's Raining Men.........* this thread needed a song.


and I cook and do all my own chores, I just don't Iron anything if I don't have to. They'll learn.

Rice is ridiculously easy to cook anyway and now they have rice cookers. For that matter so is stir fry. a little water a dab of oil veggies, chicken or fish if ya like wala. it's not brain science.

This is what happens when you are aborting all your babies.

VictoryGin wrote:

i don't know who said that.

personally what i find 'silly' is that their society doesn't value females and they have a one-child policy which ends in baby girls being killed after birth, put up for adoption outside of their country, and women being put at risk for dangerous illegal abortions.

and to top it off they apparently didn't see this coming and complain that not enough men will have wives, which is apparently the only value of a woman in their society going by this article.

Isn't it sad that somehow they manage to abort so many baby girls and yet their abortion rate is nearly the same as ours?

VictoryGin wrote:

i think i know what you're getting at but not totally sure. i don't think one can apply/completely compare the abortion situation in north america to china. i think it's important to realize the differences in culture and acknowledge that it's a problem that their entire culture--a big one at that--devalues women so much that this is what happens. in this situation i'm not completely focused on the abortion aspect. it seems like perhaps they should revisit this one-child policy and perhaps safe contraception, and i personally wouldn't mind if they started not treating women as only valuable as wives. i think there are so many issues here and just to focus on abortion will never help.

I guess I'm trying to get at two points.

One, it's a farce for Americans/Canadians/European to point to other countries and passing any any type of judgement over the reasons leading to an abortion decision. This is an ammoral choice in America and should be considered the same in other countries.

Second is that the whoe abortion thing is just a sympton of the actual problem. And the problemn is not how women are recognized or treated in China but of Human Rights.

Every time you or I buy goods from China we are telling the world that we don't care about Human Rights. That money in my pockets is more important than Human Rights. My greed overrules my heart and push come to shove I just don't care about you.

Canada has a leader that stood up to China and he got lambasted at home. That he'd dare to put Human Rights before trade. It was a very sad day for Canada.

Well I guess one way to look at it will be...less people in China?

VictoryGin wrote:

did you breakup with that girlfriend or something? i want to say you had a girlfriend at some point, before the 'incident', because i remember thinking, 'man, she must really hate herself'.

You turn this into a personal thing, but all I was saying is that China's forced abortion rate is nearly the same as our voluntary abortion rate. Aren't you proud of the contribution you make toward that abortion rate? Does it give you the warm fuzzies?

Whether the government makes you have an abortion or not, does it matter? Will the aborted babies ever know whether their mothers were forced to abort them or their mothers voluntary gave them up?

If you ask me, I would rather be one of the babies whose mother was forced to abort them. Essentially though, doesn't our society force women to abort their children by telling them that it is a moral act? When society says that fetuses aren't human beings, should we blame the mother or should we blame ourselves?

Even though abortion is legal in America, that doesn't mean we need to have an abortion rate that rivals China, that great oppressor of human rights.