Pshaw.  Women become wives to the gods.  The short end of the stick is a feature, not a bug.

We’re done with this.

Actually it wasn’t that much work.  I just typed in ‘worldwide prevalence of honor killings’.  You may thank me now for doing your work for you since YOU were too lazy to use Google.  Ah, you DO know how, don’t you? 

How is it that YOU are the only one in the world who does NOT know this?

How is it that I’ve offered citations and you haven’t?

Why don’t YOU use GOOGLE more yourself to research honor killings as I have done extensively in the past or do you need ME to give you the websites?  Are you really that lazy that you need a 69 year old lady to do your work for you?  If you do I will, but really!!!

I write key words into google and then I see what I get and what I got was information stating that the majority of honor killings were among muslims.  How is it that YOU are the only one in the world who does NOT know this?

I was not trying in any way to denigrate the number of kitchen fire killings that there are.  I KNOW that they are high!  Are you THAT stupid that you haven’t noticed that I’ve referred to ALL these countries as CRAZY?!  I had no desire to look up the numbers because I’ve seen enough horror stories coming out of that part of the world.  Besides, come to think of it, I did that years ago.  I am pretty old now, 69.  I remember looking into that years ago but I don’t remember what the figures were on how many died each year.

As for men outnumbering women; talk about OLD NEWS!!!  Some of the men there have started using women as stud animals, sending them from man to man to give birth to sons.  They abort the females, naturally.  Did YOU know THAT?  Disgusting people!  Chinese have the same sex imbalance problem but would never resort to this sort of inhumane, degrading, nasty treatment of women.  The govt would never allow it either.  Even Chinese orphanages take much better care of children than other countries do.  Ask people who’ve adopted Chinese children.

You make weird accusations.

the overwhelming majority of honor killings ARE among muslims.

You just made that up.  http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1991195,00.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honor_killing#India

Now as to ‘dowry’ kitchen fire type murders I have no idea what the figures are on these deaths.

“A 1997 report claimed that at least 5,000 women die each year because of dowry deaths and at least a dozen die each day in ‘kitchen fires’ thought to be intentional.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bride_burning#In_India

Also female infanticide is a large enough problem that men are beginning to seriously outnumber women.

Would it kill you to use Wikipedia or Google?

Redraw the fricking lines! I get SO TIRED of having India and Pakistan considered part of the Far East when they are (1) not of Mongolian descent!  (2) not culturally the same as the Asian countries which do not have the weirdness and craziness about religion or nastiness in their behavior toward their women, girl children and gay sons.  Don’t even attempt to quarrel with me on number 2.  My family has Chinese, Japanese and Filipinos in it.  Their attitudes toward women’s behavior and gays is SO far from those others that I resent being lumped together. 

We marry who we choose.  Lots of intermarriage, although Chinese continue to disapprove of their sons marrying Korean girls.  That doesn’t mean it always stops them.  I went to a Chinese wedding where the wedding song was sung by a relative of the groom, a young gay man.  Asians don’t have ANY of the craziness that characterizes India and Pakistan.  Even muslim Indonesia doesn’t have that craziness (I researched it).  The muslims in northwestern China don’t have it either.  They quite happily intermarry with their neighbors of all breeds.  There’s a lot of good looking people there.  Interestingly enough, that area also produces China’s most beautiful music.  It’s the most beautiful music I’ve ever heard and was, in fact, what first got me interested in Chinese music.

And why COULDN’T they redraw the lines?  Look how for centuries we’ve considered Europe and China to be two separate continents simply because we couldn’t stand the thought that we were really in any way genetically connected to the dreaded ‘yellow peril’.  Well, guess what the Human Genome Project proved?  When groups of people left their originating country in Africa, the group that became Asians later split again with another group going to Europe and becoming WHITE people!  So Caucasians are descended from Mongolians!  It is SO logical!  There is, after all, only a mountain range separating them.

On reflection, (thinking about it longer) the problem is modernity (new) vs. antiquity (old), fundamentalism(?) vs. contextualism(?). These are global problems that are currently pulling the world apart – in the US election, for example. Surely these same problems are pronounced (really super obvious) in China. 

I’m sorry, but dumbing down is stupid. The problem is I need a simple word that means “treating two distinct concepts as if they were one, which produces errors or misunderstandings as a fusion of distinct subjects tends to obscure analysis of relationships which are emphasised by contrasts.”

I did NOT have to look up the word conflate.  I’m an obsessive reader.  I read a book a day and have done so since the age of 9, although when I was in college I stopped since it interfered with my studies, and there are very few words that I need to look up.  I do find it amusing however when a person uses a more sophisticated word than is necessary.  It sounds so intellectually artificial.

Well, you sure like that word ‘conflate’, don’t you? Is that your ‘word for the day’? You even used it twice. It sounds a little silly used twice, especially when there are simpler words which would have done just as well.

Welcome to Boing Boing. We’re smarter than the rest of the internet and we use words that some people have to look up. We like it that way.

I wish someone would ask Romney on-camera “how many gods are there?” so that the US electorate learns that Mormons don’t believe in one god like most Christians (and Jews and Muslims) do.  Dirty pool, but I think it would work a lot better than any more questions about his (non-existent) policies.

But anyway……this practice of killing women and girls doesn’t merely happen among the uneducated.  One muslim TV producer or something like that here in the states whose wife was divorcing him took a sword and whacked off her head.  If it’s merely among the peasantry why doesn’t the upper class that RULES  do something about it–like punishing the killers by putting them in prison for a long, long time?  That’s the only way I’ll ever believe it’s only the uneducated who do it.

Despite the current political correctness of all cultures being equal, the fact is that some cultures are better than others.  To say that all cultures are equal is to be illogical.  The Chinese culture (not the government) I consider to be the best of all.  And if you haven’t lived it, then you don’t know it and have no point of reference from which to criticize it.