Thread: The War Against Girls

This is disturbing and the direction it takes societies towards more violence and militarism is very concerning. It is not anything truly new, female infanticide has been around for a long, long time. The early American colonists practiced "kiting", leaving a newborn out on a hillside for several days, if the kites (a type of bird) killed them it was god's will that they not live. This rarely done with male babies. The muslim's scriptures talk about the practice of killing female babies. Women and consequently girls and female infants have been devalued, under educated, bought and sold in marriage or servitude for a very long time.

Now science is being used to simplify the process by terminating pregnancy with a female fetus instead of waiting to kill them after birth. Actually the stats are there on this practice as well, in many cultures or nations the childhood female death rate is much higher than the male rate, girls receive poorer nutrition, less medical care, less care, less education.

If these cultures existed in a vacuum they would either destroy themselves in a few generations or correct the situation out of necessity but they don't and the world will have to deal with at least some of the fall out from the increased aggression and violence.