Re: dead girls in China--comment

[JayHecht]

In a message dated 97-11-05 01:35:48 EST, you write:

 
 4.  The 'non-reporting' does not hold water, especially since the ratio of
 boys as a majority over girls widens with age AND, there's just all those
 pesky little corpses. 

Excellent point  Amen.

This whole business is psychopathic and frightening!  For those of us with
young daughters (born exactly during this period) it is profoundly sad and
tragic.  Sure "every dad wants a son," but that's not the way reproduction
works! All the X-Y combinations are due to the male!  Finally, having
assisted in the birth of both of my children - it is beyond me to understand
how a parent could their kids.  Without being sappy or sentimental, the plain
fact is that you've got to have a total absence of humanity to carry this
out.  There is something profoundly wrong in China!!

Jason
 

Re: dead girls in China--comment

[Tom Walker]

Jason Hecht wrote,

Without being sappy or sentimental, the plain
fact is that you've got to have a total absence of humanity to carry this
out.  There is something profoundly wrong in China!!

The plain fact is that only a "total absence of humanity" can explain much
of history. 

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Tom Walker
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Re: dead girls in China--comment

[MScoleman]

In a message dated 97-11-04 00:21:15 EST,[ several people have self
righteously said more or less the following]:
I understand that most of the gap in the number of girls as opposed to
boys in China is due to *under-reporting* of girls rather than female
infanticide. If the first born is a girl, if she is not reported a second
child may be the desired boy. China's one child rule is a reactionary
measure, but one-sided reports are no better.

1.  The Chinese government now admits that infanticide of girls is a problem
and an unwanted side effect of the one child policy (this was in the last
paragraph of the article and has been admitted officially by the Chinese for
the last year or so).

2.  This information came from census data collected and released by the
Chinese government.

3.  I fail to see why 'not admitting' that you've had a girl is any better
than infanticide in the long run.  Think about it for a minute, if you don't
admit you have the child, she can't get medical care, can't go to school,
can't be included in child benefits of any kind.  But then perhaps the
proponents of not admitting there are girls feel this is o.k., after all, do
you also think uneducated baby makers in the kitchen are the best women?
(sarcasm absolutely intended)

4.  The 'non-reporting' does not hold water, especially since the ratio of
boys as a majority over girls widens with age AND, there's just all those
pesky little corpses.

5.  If the ratios were the other way around, I'd bet you guys would be out
there screaming your heads off.  What a few girls amongst all you self
righteous revolutionaries, eh?

This is what I love about this list, paraphrasing Lenin, 'scratch a
revolutionary, and you'll find a man antagonistic to women'.  In fact, if I
have time sometime soon, I think I find the exact quote and engrave it on my
ass -- just to remind myself that I'm a fucking idiot to stay subscribed to
this list anyhow.

maggie coleman [EMAIL PROTECTED]