File spoon-archives/marxism-thaxis.archive/marxism-thaxis_1998/marxism-thaxis.9801, message 490


Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 19:11:30 -0500
From: Yoshie Furuhashi <Furuhashi.1-AT-osu.edu>
Subject: M-TH: Sex Selection (To Leo)


Leo wrote:
>Of course, you manage to avoid completely the issue of "whimsical" decisions
>about abortions, and whether or not you would support the whimsical decision
>to abort a female child to sex select. This would, of course, expose the
>shallowness of your oft purported feminism, so we should not be supposed.

Sex selection occurs *because women are oppressed and less valued*. This
material fact and the ideology of sexism that goes with it are the forces
that make couples (or males who have power over their partners) desire male
issues. It is *patriarchy*, not a woman's whim, that is the cause of sex
selection.

Yoshie




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