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I'm going through some of my old emails and pulling up really interesting articles, so here's the postings and links. I thought this was going to be a short post, but it actually ended up being pretty long whooopps.
Oh yes! Oh yes it is mr. pig! My favorite pig from Shinsengumi Imon Peace Maker & Peace Maker Kurogane. The second is like a second season. Really good manga, and being published in the US, but they started with the second series first, don't know why. They have problems what can we say
A Concise History of Black-White RElations in the USA <- its a comic, you don't really have to read anything ok. Just click. APIAs, Women, Unequal Pay & Social Security
What's an Otaku you say? You better find out before its too late ;3 Fufufufu
The money behind Ward Connerly If you don't know what's going on then read
The Power and the Glory
Myths of American exceptionalism
Criticizing Patriot Act Lands Manlin Chee, Asian American Lawyer, in Jail
News Report Ahhhh man
A horrible view on Native Americans and how the US govt should treat them
You know that pic I was talking about finding the colored one. Well I found this one...pretty sweet ain't it ;D except all the orange I'm going to be blown away ;p
So I'm really not that interesting today. I wish I could be. But its friday and its time for the weekend and phun. And I don't have as much time at work to site and surf, because I actually have stuff to do, phonecalls, making excel sheets, emails and such...so I'm not as up on the news....oh boo an uneducated stephanie
The Backwardness of Sex Selection Technologies
BY YIN LING LEUNGNAPAWF
Organizing Director
As the eldest girl of a family with three daughters and a son, it was
notuntil I was adult that I realized that my very poor immigrant parents
kepthaving children because they wanted a boy. Somehow it was etched into
theirminds that only a son could carry on the family name. I have made peace
withmy parents and their beliefs, but I am not at all at peace with the factthat
female fetus abortions, infanticide, and the neglect and abandonment ofgirls in
Asia have experts estimating that nearly 100 million girls aremissing due to
beliefs similar to my parents. As a result, today sex ratiosin parts of India
are as low as 766 girls per 1000 male children. In Chinain 1996, there were 121
boys ages 1 to 4 for every 100 girls in the same agerange. Now the marketing and
promotion of sex selection technology (likesperm sorting) is threatening to make
this even worse.
But before we shake our heads and wag our fingers in dismay at
the“backwardness” of Asian culture, we need to also expand our focus andconcern
to emerging trends of the marketing and use of sex selectiontechnologies right
here on our home turf. This past year, advertisements inthe New York Times,
American and Delta Airlines in-flight magazines andSouth Asian American
community publications ask, “Do you want to choose thegender of your next
child?” and promise to make it possible.
Unlike other countries, sex selection in the United States as a whole
seemsto be driven less by cultural norms, such as son preferences, and more by
acombination of biotechnology and marketing. These new,
pre-pregnancytechnologies challenge us to reframe the debate and avert the
future dangersof “designer babies.” The Assisted Reproduction Industry markets
sexselection under the rubric of “family balancing” or “gender balance”, andsome
people are willing to pay $10,000 – $15,000 to get (or buy) the genderof their
choice. Marketers hope to “normalize” this practice of sexselection and are
working to make this technology widespread and cheaper.Consider this, we
perceive cosmetic surgery as a luxury for the rich andfamous, but today over 65
percent of elective cosmetic surgery is done bywomen with household incomes
between $25,000 and $55,000.
Commercialized sex selection poses several important risks for women
andcivil society. Gender is one of the most significant determinants of
lifeexperiences, and if we are willing to open the door to engineering
thischaracteristic, where do we draw the line? Recently a research
projectdocumented that the vast majority of CEO’s of Fortune 500 companies
aremale, heterosexual, light-skinned and 6 feet tall. Will couples wanting
togive their children an edge in life select for such traits? Today we selectfor
gender. Tomorrow will we select for homosexuality, skin color, eyecolor, IQ,
height and muscles?
Sex selection challenges feminist and social justice activists
nationallyand internationally in significant ways. Much of the women’s
reproductiverights movement is based on a pro-choice paradigm of a “woman’s
right tochoice” and the right to privacy. We need to grapple with and draw
somelines about what “choice” and “privacy” mean in the context of the
newreproductive and genetic biotechnologies. Certainly it cannot mean
theunfettered right to a market-based eugenic future. The political climate
inthe United States is ripe to debate the language of “choice” and consolidatea
framework that takes on these ethical challenges.
We already know how these technologies travel in the form of “reproductivetourism” and we know about the race to the bottom of the most unregulatedindustries. These pre-pregnancy technologies have the capacity to decimatethe number of women and girls born in some countries. This preference formale offspring is an ancient problem in Asia. Yet even in countries likeIndia and China there is a ban on the marketing of these new sex selectiontechnologies because they see the dangers of the widespread use of thesemodern technologies now and in the future. Most European Union countrieshave banned this use. Here in the United States we are free to market thistechnology as we want. Which country is really the “backward” country?
Oh yes! Oh yes it is mr. pig! My favorite pig from Shinsengumi Imon Peace Maker & Peace Maker Kurogane. The second is like a second season. Really good manga, and being published in the US, but they started with the second series first, don't know why. They have problems what can we say
A Concise History of Black-White RElations in the USA <- its a comic, you don't really have to read anything ok. Just click. APIAs, Women, Unequal Pay & Social Security
What's an Otaku you say? You better find out before its too late ;3 Fufufufu
The money behind Ward Connerly If you don't know what's going on then read
The Power and the Glory
Myths of American exceptionalism
Criticizing Patriot Act Lands Manlin Chee, Asian American Lawyer, in Jail
News Report Ahhhh man
A horrible view on Native Americans and how the US govt should treat them
You know that pic I was talking about finding the colored one. Well I found this one...pretty sweet ain't it ;D except all the orange I'm going to be blown away ;p
So I'm really not that interesting today. I wish I could be. But its friday and its time for the weekend and phun. And I don't have as much time at work to site and surf, because I actually have stuff to do, phonecalls, making excel sheets, emails and such...so I'm not as up on the news....oh boo an uneducated stephanie
The Backwardness of Sex Selection Technologies
BY YIN LING LEUNGNAPAWF
Organizing Director
As the eldest girl of a family with three daughters and a son, it was
notuntil I was adult that I realized that my very poor immigrant parents
kepthaving children because they wanted a boy. Somehow it was etched into
theirminds that only a son could carry on the family name. I have made peace
withmy parents and their beliefs, but I am not at all at peace with the factthat
female fetus abortions, infanticide, and the neglect and abandonment ofgirls in
Asia have experts estimating that nearly 100 million girls aremissing due to
beliefs similar to my parents. As a result, today sex ratiosin parts of India
are as low as 766 girls per 1000 male children. In Chinain 1996, there were 121
boys ages 1 to 4 for every 100 girls in the same agerange. Now the marketing and
promotion of sex selection technology (likesperm sorting) is threatening to make
this even worse.
But before we shake our heads and wag our fingers in dismay at
the“backwardness” of Asian culture, we need to also expand our focus andconcern
to emerging trends of the marketing and use of sex selectiontechnologies right
here on our home turf. This past year, advertisements inthe New York Times,
American and Delta Airlines in-flight magazines andSouth Asian American
community publications ask, “Do you want to choose thegender of your next
child?” and promise to make it possible.
Unlike other countries, sex selection in the United States as a whole
seemsto be driven less by cultural norms, such as son preferences, and more by
acombination of biotechnology and marketing. These new,
pre-pregnancytechnologies challenge us to reframe the debate and avert the
future dangersof “designer babies.” The Assisted Reproduction Industry markets
sexselection under the rubric of “family balancing” or “gender balance”, andsome
people are willing to pay $10,000 – $15,000 to get (or buy) the genderof their
choice. Marketers hope to “normalize” this practice of sexselection and are
working to make this technology widespread and cheaper.Consider this, we
perceive cosmetic surgery as a luxury for the rich andfamous, but today over 65
percent of elective cosmetic surgery is done bywomen with household incomes
between $25,000 and $55,000.
Commercialized sex selection poses several important risks for women
andcivil society. Gender is one of the most significant determinants of
lifeexperiences, and if we are willing to open the door to engineering
thischaracteristic, where do we draw the line? Recently a research
projectdocumented that the vast majority of CEO’s of Fortune 500 companies
aremale, heterosexual, light-skinned and 6 feet tall. Will couples wanting
togive their children an edge in life select for such traits? Today we selectfor
gender. Tomorrow will we select for homosexuality, skin color, eyecolor, IQ,
height and muscles?
Sex selection challenges feminist and social justice activists
nationallyand internationally in significant ways. Much of the women’s
reproductiverights movement is based on a pro-choice paradigm of a “woman’s
right tochoice” and the right to privacy. We need to grapple with and draw
somelines about what “choice” and “privacy” mean in the context of the
newreproductive and genetic biotechnologies. Certainly it cannot mean
theunfettered right to a market-based eugenic future. The political climate
inthe United States is ripe to debate the language of “choice” and consolidatea
framework that takes on these ethical challenges.
We already know how these technologies travel in the form of “reproductivetourism” and we know about the race to the bottom of the most unregulatedindustries. These pre-pregnancy technologies have the capacity to decimatethe number of women and girls born in some countries. This preference formale offspring is an ancient problem in Asia. Yet even in countries likeIndia and China there is a ban on the marketing of these new sex selectiontechnologies because they see the dangers of the widespread use of thesemodern technologies now and in the future. Most European Union countrieshave banned this use. Here in the United States we are free to market thistechnology as we want. Which country is really the “backward” country?
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