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I figure that there are two things that will come of this stupidity SilverWarder Send a noteboard - 05/03/2010 02:13:25 PM
First - amusingly enough in some ways - is that those now rare females are suddenly going to have real pull, much to the chagrin of the culture.

Dowry? It's going to go to bride price and that price is going to be high. Not only that but the women in question, once old enough, are going to start calling shots for themselves and because they are a rare commodity they're going to find themselves with an unusual amount of power for their culture. They, and their families, will not have to 'settle' for some poor match just to get rid of the unwanted girl. Suddenly they will have market power able to wed even 'undesireable' girls as any girl is better than no girl. Those girls are going to go into wealthier families and are going to have more say in the home, particularly in countries where divorce is allowed. Treat them nice or they won't stay.

The other factor is that this problem is going to fix itself on another level. With a new generation with far too many boys, there will be no partners, hence no children for those families. Bloodlines and families will die out and the population will take a sudden plunge, which will probably also do some pretty strange things to the economy.

Wise families will realize the market power that having a daughter is going to bring in 20 years and buck the trend. Foolish ones, well good luck to them, they're going to have issues adapting.
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I expect the Pro-Choice crowd will have mixed feelings about this - 05/03/2010 11:14:42 AM 890 Views
So...the next Sino-Indian war is only about 10 years away... *NM* - 05/03/2010 12:49:24 PM 177 Views
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Where will they go, though? - 05/03/2010 02:43:28 PM 381 Views
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both. *NM* - 05/03/2010 04:25:28 PM 177 Views
If it's a "child" then it shouldn't be aborted, period. *NM* - 05/03/2010 05:54:53 PM 160 Views
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I figure that there are two things that will come of this stupidity - 05/03/2010 02:13:25 PM 412 Views
The law of unintended consequences - 05/03/2010 04:22:15 PM 379 Views
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some people that aren't quite either are lumped in with pro-choice - 05/03/2010 06:20:27 PM 388 Views
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The beginning of higher brain function, which is after the midpoint of a pregnancy. - 05/03/2010 06:53:13 PM 384 Views
That is a pretty poorly defined term to use as a razor for what makes a human - 05/03/2010 08:04:00 PM 402 Views
well at a certain point it IS a lump of cells - 06/03/2010 12:39:49 AM 354 Views
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heh. what exactly are squiky feelings? - 05/03/2010 07:24:52 PM 445 Views
squeamish + icky = squicky *NM* - 05/03/2010 07:29:37 PM 191 Views
How can one post in the wrong place? *NM* - 05/03/2010 06:27:35 PM 210 Views
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Why? - 06/03/2010 03:33:20 AM 448 Views
Unfortunately... - 06/03/2010 09:33:12 AM 433 Views
It is true that some socialist countries force the issue - 06/03/2010 12:22:21 PM 421 Views
that still doesn't (logically) explain some things - 06/03/2010 03:58:19 PM 438 Views
And for every sob story like this, there's one about a female boss with a chip on her shoulder - 06/03/2010 10:08:06 PM 497 Views
so because sexism goes both ways - 06/03/2010 10:40:54 PM 349 Views
I worked for a company that fast tracked female engineers into managment posistions - 07/03/2010 02:45:22 AM 366 Views
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Well, I am very impressed - 07/03/2010 09:47:49 AM 442 Views
icwhatyoudidthar - 07/03/2010 06:25:07 PM 365 Views
I just wanted to see how he got from "less average pay" = "less desirable" - 09/03/2010 12:09:29 AM 383 Views
You got it backwards IMHO - 09/03/2010 03:07:37 AM 359 Views
Also, men retire later - 06/03/2010 05:28:13 PM 406 Views
I don't think that is a general rule - 06/03/2010 05:54:28 PM 432 Views
I'd be hard pressed to find any statistics like that - 06/03/2010 08:23:15 PM 368 Views
Statistics suck. - 06/03/2010 08:41:16 PM 362 Views
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You make sense - 09/03/2010 02:53:32 AM 352 Views
Yes, this is tragic - 06/03/2010 12:57:43 AM 395 Views

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