AWKWARD ZOMBIE

That is truly terrible. who would do such a thing....

"Scalding chicken soup"








Oh God.

So they can't have daughters

Because they would be asking for expensive gifts too much


My god the only sane reason they had here was because they didn't want the girls growing up in their dangerous world but even then it's just

augh

I just noticed that.



.....I have no words.

Societies who have screwed up priorities do that. Infanticide is justified because the society states that a sex has a price label on it...?

I don't know what's worse, the fact that they think that means it's good to kill infants or that it's true that women need need enough cheddar for a dowry to have value.

It's worse than that. They wear jewelry to show the family's wealth (even if they are poor). They are used as tools to show everyone that the family isn't poor and therefore has to be respected.

@Ame: It's more about carrying the family name than anything else.[/b]

In India, when your daughter is to be wed you have to pay a large sum of cheddar to the family of her husband. Families, rich and poor, want sons so they will get the dowry of marriage.

But regardless of being in India or China, both believe a girl will grow up essentially paying to be a slave, but a son will almost automatically be successful and be able to survive.

To quote myself again,



That was from the same woman who poisoned her daughter in the first paragraph.

That is one screwed-up social system.

That's also why people in countries like India have so many children. Poor couples in India 'need' a son to help them in the fields and to take care of them once they get old and sick. In addition, if they have more boys, it means more opportunities to spread their family name. The more sons, the better.

On the flip side, girls cost cheddar and 'cannot' do hard labor. Their only job is taking care of the household.

In impoverished countries, most people can't pay for healthcare or medicine. The infant mortality rate is very high because couples can't afford medical treatment. So, they have more babies to ensure that more will be likely to survive to adulthood.

Oh wow. That pisses me off so much.


The fact that people still do that.. augh.

It's gotten so bad in India that it is common practice to genetically alter zygotes so that people can have boys.

That's all I saw

and I don't want to read anymore that's just so depressing

This, but replace "depressing" with sexist/idiotic/blargh.

My exact response.