It’s a Girl: The Three Deadliest Words in the World
January 17th, 2012Via: Independent:
It’s a girl, a film being released this year, documents the practice of killing unwanted baby girls in South Asia. The trailer’s most chilling scene is one with an Indian woman who, unable to contain her laughter, confesses to having killed eight infant daughters.
The statistics are sickening. The UN reports approximately 200 million girls in the world today are ‘missing’. India and China are said to eliminate more female infants than the number of girls born in the US each year. Lianyungang in China has the worst infant gender ratio on record with 163 boys born for every 100 girls. Taiwan, South Korea and Pakistan are also countries in which unwanted female babies are aborted, killed or abandoned.
Gendercide in South Asia takes many forms: baby girls are killed or abandoned if not aborted as foetuses. Girls that are not killed often suffer malnutrition and medical neglect as sons are favoured when shelter, medicine and food are scarce. Trafficking, dowry deaths, honour killings and deaths resulting from domestic violence are all further evils perpetrated against women. This femicide has led the Geneva Centre for Democratic Control of Armed Forces to report in ‘Women in an Insecure World’ that a secret genocide is being carried out against women at a time when deaths resulting from armed conflicts have decreased.
How did we ever make it to the 21st century? The ramifications for this are terrifying. What will hundreds of millions of bachelors do when there are no potential wives available? They will join the military in nations where there are more female service members that the united states has residents. Eventually that will lead to wars where male soldiers will be happy to drag home widows and little girls as spoils of war.
Farfetched? perhaps…but there’s plenty of historical prescidence and 300,000,000 hopelessly horny men invading a nation does not sound like a pleasant scenario.