What else would you call a phenomenon that has resulted in the death of 163 million women, specifically targeted for their sex?
In nature, 105 boys are born for every 100 girls. This ratio is biologically ironclad. Between 104 and 106 is the normal range, and that’s as far as the natural window goes. Any other number is the result of unnatural events.
Yet today in India there are 112 boys born for every 100 girls. In China, the number is 121—though plenty of Chinese towns are over the 150 mark. China’s and India’s populations are mammoth enough that their outlying sex ratios have skewed the global average to a biologically impossible 107. But the imbalance is not only in Asia. Azerbaijan stands at 115, Georgia at 118 and Armenia at 120.
What is causing the skewed ratio: abortion. If the male number in the sex ratio is above 106, it means that couples are having abortions when they find out the mother is carrying a girl. By Ms. Hvistendahl’s counting, there have been so many sex-selective abortions in the past three decades that 163 million girls, who by biological averages should have been born, are missing from the world. Moral horror aside, this is likely to be of very large consequence.
Marriage tends to settle a man, inculcate him with responsibilities and ensure his productive contributions to society. The prospect of 163 million unmarriageable males roaming the lower classes – for economic reasons, this is where they will tend to accumulate – has immense potential for social mischief.
Malthusians may well rejoice, but there is a not so very well hidden irony in feminism’s triumph of a “woman’s right to choose,” is there not? That choice has led in the event to the absence of nearly 200 million women from the world who would otherwise have been born of biological necessity.
Nailed.
Again.
What did you fly back in the day, if you don’t mind me asking?
Hoovers. Got that helmet when I was in VS-22 back in 1980. Picture was taken at VT-3 in 1981.
The moon is indeed a harsh mistress.
Tell the Chinese it’s their turn in Afghanistan? And Pakistan? That should soak ‘em up.
You know, many moons ago I played a RPG game called Traveller (geek alert!) and one of the many alien races was a group called Aslan. Hey, the game came out in the 70s, so large honor bound lion like people were cool… ok?
Anyway one of the big problems with the Aslan were they had too many sons, and all past the first were called Ihaiti(or landless Aslan). Land is a biological obsession to Aslan males, and being landless makes for loss of status. Thus Ihaiti fleets are always traveling and have a reputation for not worrying about who is in the way. Many wars and adventures were to be found when these landless males appeared.
Makes me wonder if the Ihaiti of our world will end up being a million man army of Chinese single men looking for a date.
B
They sound sort of like the Kzinti, from Star Trek.
The Kzinti are from Larry Niven’s Known Space series of Novels, including the Man-Kzin War series.
Also, I fully agree with Lex.
World War II was fought to end one form of Eugenics movement. So the name was changed to ‘family planning’ and applied to the unborn instead of the living.
163 million murders. Damn. The piece is also full of interesting stuff. Chinese dowry money buying U.S. Treasury bonds. Predicting crime trends in India. And of course the nail has been hit on the head: The silence of feminists is deafening. They are way too busy screeching and caterwalling about coathangers and back alleys, and rape, and incest, to be bothered with reality. Double damn.
Hopefully those reading the review will pickup on this:
163,000,000 little girls – just a statistic. Losing the “right to chose” – “worst nightmare”?? Kinda puts it into perspective.
Actions have consequences.
Kinda like Stalin’s “one is a tragedy, a million is a statistic.” Of course, they are of the same well head.
RE: the “feminist” perspective. Ideologues ALWAYS regard individuals as minor irritants thwarting the implementation of their grand ideological goals. Witness the Chief of Staff of the Army stating his belief that the “real” tragedy of the deaths of his OWN PEOPLE at Ft. Hood–in his words a “bigger” tragedy–would be if it derailed the Army’s “diversity” programs.
And a surplus of YOUNG Chinese males (full of the testosterone of youth) is scary in its implications, as Bigol insightfuly notes…”when the sap begins to run,” as they say..
+1
With that lot, we’re talking selective reasoning at its best.
I think that it’s pretty interesting that in these countries a huge number of women are complicit in the destruction of their own sex. Either the ability to obtain abortion on demand is NOT connected to control over one’s body, or being a woman in these cultures is such a horrible fate that these women would rather kill their nascent daughters than give birth to them.
Sons are their form of social security. Daughters marry into other families and are lost to their parents in old age.
Basic question for any man looking for a mate nowadays wherein they can “build a secure nest together”, be best friends, with someone he can trust completely: Why would any man choose a woman who can kill her own child? ..Legaly even and without him even knowing.
There’s a trial going on in Florida right now. What’s the difference between a few months or a few years? Some lawyer drew an invisible line between murder and killing. I’m thinking of the “partial birth abortion” travisty.
….And I keep reading that fewer and fewer men are choosing marriage. Why should they when it’s so easy to just “hook up” where you can phuckem and forgetem? (F & F)
It’s past time again for my 2 fingers of Jack Daniels. WTH
Considering a steady forced diet of each days news these days, only two, Pixelkiller? lol
Pixel is a piker, evidently. Now, our man Virgil his “two fingers” is the whole bottle.
Feminists are a nightmare of their own. They are silent for the overall treatment of Muslim women, for honor killings, for gender-selective abortion and for the hideous “baby daddy” situation, to name just a few things they never have comments about.
They have no pride in their gender and will go out of their way to attack a member of their gender who actually exemplifies the feminist ideal – Sarah Palin.
Feminists are missing something that is essential to being a woman; they may look like a woman but they act like some other kind of gender entirely. Something that goes beyond being a man or woman. The compassionate parts of them are missing.
“The compassionate parts of them are missing.”
The “compassionate” parts of totalitarians are ALWAYS missing, Kris.
+1
PLQ
And Kris, you might think I’m being overbroad by painting them (smearing, some would say) with the T-word label, but if you think about it, the end result of “progressive” politics ALWAYS ends up in totalitarianism–for once the true course has been revealed it must be spread to all–forcibly if necessary. Further, seen in this light, once “shown the light” of the revealed truths by those progressive thinkers who hold what Sowell calls “The Vision of the Anointed” anyone who would disagree must be, ipso facto, either stupid or evil, n’cest-ce pas? And thus suppressed, made irrelevant, painted as obstructionist fools best/easily ignored, or eliminated. It’s not for nothing that the Soviets put dissidents in psychiatric prisons–what sane person could not see the glories of Communism. And the Communists did so not cynically, but as “true believers.” Likewise many in the AGW crowd call for the imprisonment of their critics or label them irrational holocaust “deniers” for the same reasons–and seek to ram their climate “fix” regulations down the throats of the American public by the very un-democratic means of bureaucratic regulation (EPA) and the courts.
VX: They do have “compassion” – but they use the Leftist trick of redefining troubling words like this so that the meaning is lost or obfuscated.
VX – I had no complaint with you painting the femi-nazis with the totalitarianism brush.
If the shoe fits and all that. Besides, clearly I’m no fan of these things masquerading as women and portraying women as victims.
Y’all are all wrong. Why goodness gracious, Al Gore and Ted Turner have both voiced the learned opinion of small minds that the future of the earth is determined by population, and we had better get it well under 7 billion total Souls On Board, or we’re all doomed to rising sea level, horrific temperature extremes, food riots, and lack of water. So we’re already 163 million toward the goal of lowering the worldwide birth rate leading to the inevitable clash of male heavy societies resulting in additional millions of deaths, and the equation will once again be in equilibrium.
C’mon, these progressive liberals are so much smarter than us narrow-minded neanderthalic angry white men clinging to our guns, gold and religion. So we MUST be wrong about this abortion thingie.
FACE-PALM, G-man! A thousand pardons! I beg your forgiveness!
I bow to your superior insights and am booking myself into the nearest re-education camp as soon as I finish typing this. What a simplistic fool am I!
First, there’s a surplus of Russian women because the men are dying younger and younger, so there’s room for those Chinese men right there. And the other 100 million or so are already in Africa, working on oil fields, rare earth mineral mines, etc. Above all, China knows not to leave 100 million unmarried males hanging around the peacable kingdom.
It’s the mans’ choice in China, women are property, not decision makers. Pretty much the same in rural India. Boys are valuable, girls are not. Never spent any time in the FSR, but I suspect the womens’ rights aren’t high on the agenda there either.
In western europe, where feminism is the strongest, the gender ratio varies from 105/100 to 101/100 so abortions would appear to be gender neutral.
This is not really elective in China. Coerced abortions, as well as involuntary sterilizations, are commonplace. The Communist Party insists abortions are voluntary under the nation’s one-child policy, but it’s simply not true. Evidence provided by “ChinaAid” and “Women’s Rights Without Frontiers” indicate pregnant women are essentially hunted down and forced to submit to surgery or induced labor.
A woman pregnant without permission has to surrender her unborn child no matter what the stage of fetal development including late term abortions. Most late-term infants die during induced labor, some live and are left in trash cans. Chen Guangcheng, an activist, is serving a four-year sentence after exposing to the media that 130,000 forced abortions and sterilizations occurred in Shandong province alone. BTW: Guangcheng, who is blind, was beaten and denied medical care after going public.
Another unintended consequence: Since men outnumber women by 40 million, it’s become a driving force behind sex slavery in Asia. The whole thing is incredibly tragic.
I should have read what you wrote before I wrote my below comment.
Why are we assuming this was feminism and the woman’s right to choose? In not one of these countries mentioned do I think, ‘Progressive women’s movement’. In every one of them, I see women as something far less than the man in the eyes of their society. There is no ‘triumph of a woman’s right to choose here’. I see more victimization… women forced to abort to meet her society’s expectations… I see abuse, perhaps at the hands of the father.
Bou, this is one of those things that Americans don’t like to understand or admit, but in most parts of Asia women aren’t equals. No surprise there. But a great many Asian women internalize this and turn it into a self-hatred directed against themselves and other women. Their lives are miserable, and killing baby women is self-justified as an act of mercy. The willful destruction of women in utero or as infants is primarily a female-on-female crime.
The question is, why, in America and Europe, where women have it so good and are equals in key ways, are women more likely to abort a female than a male? Statistically, they are, but why?
What makes you think that’s the case, Zane?
98 percent of abortions in the US and Europe happen before it’s possible to determine the sex of the baby by ultrasound.
Liz, I didn’t even bother. I was so stunned by the stats he was trying to pull of, I had to ignore it. Add to it the whole, ‘self hatred of Asian women, killing baby women’ and I just had to shake my head.
“But the imbalance is not only in Asia. Azerbaijan stands at 115, Georgia at 118 and Armenia at 120.”
And thereby discredited. All three are Asian countries. If the author doesn’t know that, I have to seriously doubt anything else he writes.
I’ll grant the author a Mulligan. I don’t think most people think of Russia or the former Soviet satellite countries as “Asian”, and they are Eurasian. Certainly they aren’t traditional ‘oriental’ societies (and Oriental is a politically incorrect term with about as much impact as the N word these days so the author could hardly use it).
Per the topic, I suspect they’ll figure it out.