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Gendercide:
sex-selective abortion, infanticide, abandonment, and mistreatment of females
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“Women facing poverty, oppression, and violence are usually viewed as victims. Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn’s Half the Sky shows that unimaginable challenges are often met with breathtaking bravery. These stories show us the power and resilience of women who would have every reason to give up but never do. They will be an inspiration for anyone who reads this book, and a model for those fighting for justice around the world. You will not want to put this book down.”
- Angelina Jolie on "Half the Sky" - a book on the oppression of women and girls in the developing world
I think that it is great that Angelina Jolie is endorsing this book. While it is amazing that women rise to the challenges they face and show the bravery Angelina describes, I think that Angelina could further emphasize the inequality that causes these challenges for women. It seems as her comments are a bit trivializing of the enormity of the issue.
#UMASS#ENGL WRIT 112#2xchromosomes#gendercide#sex-selective abortion#sexism#feminism#Half the Sky#golf clap/wag of finger
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How can men and women even begin to strive for equal rights and opportunities when women are being denied the right and opportunity to life? Approximately 200 million girls are missing from the world as a result of sex-selective abortion, female infanticide, and the abandonment of female children. The failure to provide the opportunity of life to these girls is justified by the cultural preference of males. The countries where this devastating gendercide is most prevalent are India and China. Both of these countries have cultures that create a preference for males. In India, the dowry system makes women burdens to their parents. On the other hand, men are highly valued because they can earn money for their families and take care of their parents as they grown older. Even surviving past birth does not seem to increase a girl’s odds to living a full life, female children are often neglected and have higher mortality rates then their male peers. In China, there is also cultural favor towards male children. Women are traditionally viewed as inferior, and this status of subordination is rooted in the Confucius ethical and philosophical system. Furthermore, the one-child policy in China has increased the desire for male children. Although there are limited ways around the one-child policy, parents still prefer sons, and are willing to take actions to ensure sons.
#UMASS#ENGL WRIT 112#2xchromosomes#gendercide#gender equality#gender ratios#sex-selective abortion#sexism#prenatal sex determination#one child policy#dowry costs#china#India#spread awareness
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"Trash Smothered Dearth Care" by Pax ...a warning on wastefulness and trash build up on earth
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They wanted to know if the children are girls or boys. They [in-laws] started torturing me to get an abortion done. What should I do to save my daughters?
Dr. Mitu Khurana [Pediatrician in India who's husband and his parents forced her to get a prenatal sex determination test by feeding her eggs (which she is allergic to) and then tried to force her to get an abortion when they found out she was carrying twin girls]
#UMASS#ENGL WRIT 112#2xchromosomes#gendercide#gender equality#sex-selective abortion#prenatal sex determination#infanticide#truestorybro#<--that tag is insensitive and shouldn't be used here but I have to use it so sorry that it is out f place
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In this video, ABC's 20 20 looks at the gendercide issue in India. This video is an attempt to educate Americans who watch 20 20 about the growing issue of gendercide. It includes interviews with women and men who have been impacted by gendercide.
#UMASS#ENGL WRIT 112#2xchromosomes#gendercide#gender equality#gender ratios#infanticide#sex-selective abortion#sexism#prenatal sex determination#feminism#dowry costs#India#ABC#as seen on tv#child bride#sex-trafficking#bride trafficking
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In context...
As a girl adopted from China, my life has been completely altered by gendercide. The reason I am where I am is most likely because I am a girl and my birth parents wanted a boy. This part of my context has definitely influenced my take on this issue. I am not sure that I would be researching this topic or even be aware of it if my life had not been influenced by it. People in privileged societies and first world countries often take for granted their right to be alive, and get extremely upset or panicked if this right is put in jeopardy. In America, we have severe punishments for murder crimes, and go into a media frenzy around any type of murder crime is committed. However, little care or thought is given to the millions of girls who have lost their right to life. I think my context has increased my interest in this issue, and has also propelled my research forwards.
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Interview with Pax on Gendercide
Me: How would you define gendercide?
Pax: Fuck that’s a hard question. Is it okay I don’t know?
Me: Yea of course, just what do you think it is?
Pax: The mass killing of a gender?
Me: Where do you think gendercide occurs?
Pax: In... underdeveloped countries
Me: And what do you think it looks like, how would you describe it?
Pax: There’s an opinion or belief that one gender like is less valued and then there are actions taken to make the gender whatever the person wants
Me: the person...what?
Pax: By the person I mean the group who has the belief.
Me: That sounds really confusing, can you clear it up?
Pax: So, there is a group or party that has a belief or opinion that a certain gender
Me: What gender? Girls?
Pax: Gendercide could be to males too
Me: What would your example be for that?
Pax: If I think by gendercide it means the mass killing of a gender, then gendercide could mean the mass killing of males
Eva: So like more of a definition than reality?
Pax: Yea
Eva: Okay that makes more sense. What do you think gendercide looks like in reality though?
Pax: In reality I would think of gendercide...as in example in China where they would either...wait, in China did they kill baby girls?
Eva: Yea they did, and still do. But what I am asking is what do you think gendercide looks like right now, like in present day
Pax: Okay so, then ummmmm I don’t know of any where it’s happening now
Eva: You just said China
Pax: But that was before though, is that still happening
Eva: By before do you mean in the past?
Pax: Yea
Eva: It’s actually still happening, it’s still a big issue
Pax: I didn’t know that, I thought it was something that had happened but wasn’t currently happening in China or anywhere else.
#UMASS#ENGL WRIT 112#2xchromosomes#gender equality#gendercide#interview#pax#infanticide#sex-selective abortion
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Eva, it seems as though all sex-selective abortion singles out females, but has there ever been a time when it was males who were killed at birth?
In the majority of cultures, males are seen as superior or of greater value. If this preference is not blatantly obvious in traditions, and in the conversations/heritage of the culture, it can often be found ingrained in the society, whether it be in the form of sexism, patriarchy, or gender roles. Therefore, there has not been any mass killings of specifically male infants. On the other hand, male children have been singled out and recruited to create child armies. However, I think that this form of injustice towards a specific gender is different in its origin. While females are seen as worthless or unwanted in areas where gendercide is a issue, males are valued and put on pedestals. In areas where male children are taken and forced to commit atrocious acts in wars, female children are often treated poorly as well, i.e. being denied access to education. Therefore, in these areas it is not an issue of male children being seen as lesser and females being valued. In no way do I mean to diminish the crimes against male children, rather, I would be hesitant to group them in with several societies’ acceptance and promotion of ideals that has led to the elimination of millions of female children.
#umass#ENGL WRIT 112#2xchromosomes#gender equality#gendercide#gender ratios#sex-selective abortion#sexism#infanticide#class ask
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Toooaatally unrelated to this blog but....
here is my generative writing remix. I remixed GW 24
This is why I hate guinea pigs.
Take out of it what you may...
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2xchromosomes: This post is quite relevant to my topic. This whole notion of male superiority is bogus. While this website (menarebetterthanwomen.com) is comically over-exaggerated and is written by a ridiculously ignorant man, there is a dark truth lurking behind what he is saying. There is a significant amount of men (and perhaps even some women) who (maybe not to the extent of this website) do think that the male sex is better. This belief and value of male superiority is hurting not only women but men as well. Whether it be bare branches is China, or the millions of missing girls, the lack of gender equality is a devastating reality.
I stumbled upon these oh so lovely images while browsing about my topic. Investigating the source of the images led me to menarebetterthanwomen.com. I’m honestly shocked to see a website with this URL, making its intentions so clear. While I should’ve just closed the browser to stop this man’s stupidity and ignorance from entering my thoughts, I ventured onward for the sake of my research.
I learned so much from this website! It’s a good thing this man posted so many times about just how destructive women are in society, or else I never would’ve realized just how worthless I am! My favorite post addressed the dilemma of women owning their own property and how men can’t let us women forget that we are property. After all, we are just here for men right?
It’s because of men like this that some woman feel they can’t measure up. It’s men like this who don’t respect women and view them as “property.” It’s men like this that overstep boundaries and are likely to violate and harass women. If a man feels he has more power than women, what would stop him from taking advantage of her? These are the men who believe cat calls are flattery for women. If anything, they are doing women a favor right? We must convince these men that this is not okay. That in 2014 it should be well known that both men and woman are equal. That all people are equal.
#UMASS#ENGL WRIT 112#2xchromosomes#farfromthedreamjob#reblog#gendercide#gender equality#gender ratios#sex-selective abortion#sexism#feminism#human rights#this guy is an asshole
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2xchromosomes: I am not sure I agree with what these people are saying. I would say that yes, they deserve and need the right to be considered equal to the males in their cultures. However, I think it is difficult to rate the "need of feminism" This doesn't quite make sense to me. The fundamental definition of feminism boils it all down to the equality between genders. But equality doesn't seem like a concept where there can be more or less, either there is equality or there isn't equality. Sure, women may have more rights in certain areas, but if there is still inequality, feminism is "needed". I disagree with the statement that people shouldn't call themselves feminists. I also would challenge the idea that anyone evades gender related oppression. In one way or another, we all find ourselves limited by gender related oppression; a great reason to call yourself a feminist and a human rights activist.
"She needs feminism because… Due to insufficient dowry this young girl’s husband lacerated her face with a razor blade (Gwalior - India)"
This photo sums up why we still need feminism. We don’t need it for ourselves living in our cosy modern first world society where we suffer from mild inconveniences, but for the women out there who legitimately have no rights, are not protected by any laws, and are actually oppressed because of their gender. The saddest part about this photo is knowing that 7,000 young girls lost their lives for the same thing back in 2001, some of whom were burned alive. With that statistic in mind you could almost consider this girl lucky to escape with just a few scratches… Can you comprehend just how screwed up that is?
You got cat called? There was a video with topless ladies who agreed to show off their bodies? Someone told you to make a sandwich or get back to the kitchen as a gender stereotypical joke? Wow, so oppressed… You have 0% of my support.
WE don’t need feminism, THEY need feminism.
Stop calling yourself a feminist, because it implies that you suffer from gender related oppression. Consider yourself a Human Rights Activist, because it implies that you support the real feminists out there who so desperately need the feminist movement.
#UMASS#ENGL WRIT 112#2xchromosomes#gendercide#feminism#human rights#gender equality#oppression#critique#blogger's choice
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“When male-dominated family power is replaced by a country’s
male-dominated social systems, laws, ideologies, and resource
allocation, control over women becomes part of the public
patriarchy. This combination of both private and public patriarchy
constitutes an entirely dominant system, which keeps women in a
firmly subordinate position.”
Berlatsky, Noah. Gendercide. Farmington Hills: Greenhaven, 2014. Print
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Life sentence: A postcard from a newborn daughter
Darkness to light
I see the world for a
moment
and your face
a furrowed brow
disapproving noises after
inspection
I fail
give me a chance
white cloth
looming
smothered
but not with love.
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Not of Value: A postcard from an unborn girl
If you fail to slaughter me
as a fetus
at birth
with knives and poisons
The world will succeed.
#UMASS#ENGL WRIT 112#2xchromosomes#gendercide#gender ratios#infanticide#blogger's choice#postcard#social art
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Sex-Selective Abortion
Does China's family planning police have the right to force women to receive abortions or to be sterilized?
Should sex-selective abortion be illegal or legal?
Should parents be able to know the sex of their baby in order for them to decide to abort or not?
What are the implications of sex-selective abortion? How are they similar or different from infanticide of female infants?
Please respond with your thoughts!
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#umass#ENGL WRIT 112#2xchromosomes#gendercide#sex-selective abortion#pro-choice#pro-life#one child policy#prenatal sex determination#family planning
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The 3 Deadliest Words In The World - "It's A Girl" : Evan Grae Davis at TEDxGateway
Here's the full video. It provides an overview of the topic of gendercide. Evan Grae Davis discusses the issue of gendercide and confronts the public to take a stand and to do something. He offers his own personal experiences of what he has seen while visiting India to his audience. He also discusses the impact of gendercide in China as well. Evan Grae Davis is the director of the documentary "It's a Girl".
#umass#ENGL WRIT 112#2xchromosomes#gendercide#it's a girl#sex-selective abortion#gender ratios#one child policy#bare branches#sex-trafficking#forced abortion#aural rhetoric
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