Why do anti-feminists deny that negative attitudes towards women in certain

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cultures results in? an increase in sex-selective abortions?
Blue Christian - I'm not saying it's the fault of men at all. I'm saying that these attitudes exist. You're quite correct that women also view females as less desirable.
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I am pro-choice. However I can also see that sex-selective abortion is the result of negative cultural attitudes towards women in places such as India.
Please enlighten me as to where negative attitudes towards males is resulting in a skewed sex ratio.
Bluebeard's Wife - I have had many discussions with Indian women about sex-selective abortion and infanticide. The reasons they give are various - from being a sign of status to having a son to not being able to afford girls (as they don't work outside the home as often and leave the family when they are married, so don't support their parents in old age).
 
because its not true
based on your logic - one could say the result of negative attitudes towards men results in women getting beaten
thats a cop out
 
The thing is, Sam, it's the MOTHERS, the women, who also have this negative attitude! It isn't just the men, it's the women too. What do you do with that? And is it really the fault of men?

There is no excuse for sex-selective abortions. It doesn't matter how negative the attitudes are towards women; there is simply no way to justify killing a baby because of its sex. To me, that's a hate crime, just as bad as going out and beating up a gay person because you hate homosexuality.

I just do not see what you are seeing though. I don't see nonfeminist men denying that there are problems in other cultures with the attitudes towards women. I just see that they're outraged that so many pro-choice women are more upset over sex-selective abortions done on female babies than they are about those performed on male babies. I also see them wondering why pro-choicers support a woman's right to choose until someone mentions sex-selective abortions. I wonder that too. Choice is choice and motive shouldn't matter.
 
I don't have any negative attitude towards *women*. I have negative attitude towards women who go on blaming men for all their failures, who go on blkaming oppression for their failures, who don't have a bone in their spine to keep them from falling for this blame game.

And men of that "caliber" too.

Also, I can also say that if abortion is done then there will be no children in this universe. Is that true? No. Just like that, if selective abortion is carried out, then that will not result in sex ratio decline, cause not all will do it.

EDIT:- All I can say is I have met more Indian women than you can ever meet, sam. Not all women think like that. The ratio is something like 95 :100 : : women : men. And do you know that women in rural areas over there do get abused? Would you say they should all abort their female fetuses as they would be abused anyway, or do you want to stop this sex ratio problem and let them suffer, just to solve the sex-ratio problem?
 
I am not a Chinese woman who is getting an abortion because I wanted to have a son and not a daughter.

I am not an Indian mother in law who is pressuring her daughter in law to get an abortion because I want a grandson and not a granddaughter.

I am also not an "anti-feminist" and I am not responsible for the attitudes that both men AND women have in "certain" cultures. Why not ask the women in these cultures why they choose to have abortions? After all, it is their body, their choice, isn't it?
 
I am not a Chinese woman who is getting an abortion because I wanted to have a son and not a daughter.

I am not an Indian mother in law who is pressuring her daughter in law to get an abortion because I want a grandson and not a granddaughter.

I am also not an "anti-feminist" and I am not responsible for the attitudes that both men AND women have in "certain" cultures. Why not ask the women in these cultures why they choose to have abortions? After all, it is their body, their choice, isn't it?
 
"Why do anti-feminists deny that negative attitudes towards women in certain cultures results in an increase in sex-selective abortions?"

Who denies this?

If you are concerned about fetuses being killed, then why aren't you concerned about male fetuses being killed, and why aren't you outraged that your feminist sisters are the greatest promotors of abortion (of male and female fetuses) than anyone else in history?
 
"Why do anti-feminists deny that negative attitudes towards women in certain cultures results in an increase in sex-selective abortions?"

Who denies this?

If you are concerned about fetuses being killed, then why aren't you concerned about male fetuses being killed, and why aren't you outraged that your feminist sisters are the greatest promotors of abortion (of male and female fetuses) than anyone else in history?
 
Well, of course negagive attitudes towards women lead to sex-selective abortions, why wouldn't they? How could favourable attitudes towards women lead to more female being aborted?
 
Because they are incapable of understanding that bad things happen to everybody. Not just them.
 
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