The beginning and the end: fatal sexism
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This is a profoundly heartbreaking story from a gynecologist about a baby girl born into a culture that enforces the disposability and worthlessness of women. Even more distressing is the difficulty in establishing common ground when there are language and culture barriers preventing any sort of nuanced communication.
Child "selection" of this nature occurs daily around the world, but since we often see it in the form of statistics it is harder to connect with the sexism that breeds such intentions.
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Thank you for posting this. You're right, too often these atrocities get swept into the idea of statistics, but it's so important to remember that each number in those statistics is, or was, a real person.
Disgusting, backwards people.
I'm sure that you didn't mean it this way, but the sentiment of "backwards" strongly connotates racism and colonialism.
While the women are devalued differently in different cultures, its important to understand that the individuals who turn patriarchy into murder are self-representative. Which is another way of saying that a *person* who hated women murdered this child.
Not people.
Absolutely. And I'd like to remind arakiba that women and children die from abuse in *every* country, including the most developed.
Backwards refers to anyone who would sex-select like this. The fact that it's more common in certain cultures doesn't change the fact that anyone who does it is disgusting and backwards.