Afghani man murders wife for giving birth to a daughter

Mother and Daughter by Élisabeth-Louise Vigee-Le Brun (1789)

The United Nations estimates that there are around 60 million fewer women alive on planet Earth than there should be.  The culprits are femicide, the murder of a woman or girl specifically because of gender, and the selective abortion of female fetuses.  The problem exists in many parts of the world, even in the US.

  A study done by Unicef in India in 2002 tracked the rates of abortion after an amniocentesis.  Of those fetuses aborted 99.99% were female.  You read that right.  9,999 out of 10,000 were female.  It is arguable that those may have been the lucky ones given the utter hell that can befall women for the simple crime of having a vagina in India.  It's another post for another day, but what is happening in India is disgusting, disgraceful and wrong.

India is not the only country with this problem.  Among others, Guatemala, China, Turkey, Pakistan and Afghanistan are also apparently hell-bent on eradicating anyone without a Y chromosome.  This  week, an Afghan man named Sher Mohammad strangled his wife, Estorai, to death after she had the sheer audacity to give birth to a second daughter instead of a son.  He had threatened to kill her if she had another daughter, and made good on that threat.  Apparently his mother helped him kill his wife.  Awesome.  So, girls are good enough to help you murder people...

You can read the full story here on The Blaze:  Woman murdered after having daughter

Gaze Into My Crystal Ball

 This morning it was informally announced that Republican Michele Bachmann intends to run for president.  Get ready, ladies and gents!  There is nothing that stirs the pot quite like a lady gettin' uppity and trying to do a man's job!

Do you remember how Clinton and Palin were covered by the media?  Clinton wore pantsuits and short cropped hair, and was portrayed as masculine, cold, and ball-busting.  Then when she wore a slightly low-cut blouse, it sparked Cleavagegate.  Relive the glory of the article that sparked the controversy here:  Clinton's Cleavage Covered by Washington Post.

People were acting like she went on the floor of congress dressed like JWOWW.   BTW, what in the hell kind of name is JWOWW, and why is it taking up valuable real estate in my brain?  I need a minute to get over my disgust, and possibly take some prophylactic valtrex.

 Go ahead, try to deny the similarity.

 Palin was feminine and pretty, and widely criticized for being stupid.  Do you remember all that fuss over how much  money the GOP spend on her wardrobe for the campaign trail?  Or how she was a bad mother?  Or people making fun of her for having been a beauty queen?   Okay, I gotta give them that one.  You know how I love pageants!

How exactly could a woman dress or groom herself in order to avoid beauty criticism?  Where exactly is that line between cold, calculating, butchy hag and stupid, slutty, beauty queen? 

You don't have to be Madam Ruby to see where this is going.   Bachmann is pretty, so we can count on the hounds to go after her for being ditzy, a pawn of men in higher positions, using botox (you know that's coming), and possibly being some kind of a slut.  Instead of going after her femininity, wouldn't it be great if people could focus on her policies?

Hilary Houdini Rodham Clinton

 People should be worried about Hilary Clinton.  I know she is considered by many to be a dangerous, pantsuit wearing threat, but now she's upped the ante.   You know that photo that has been everywhere of President Obama and his team watching video of the raid on Osama's compound?  The one where Hilary has her hand over her mouth?

Well, it was reprinted in a Hassidic newspaper and Hilary wasn't in the photo.  She freakin' disappeared.  I'm thinking she is a witch.  That's definitely more plausible than her being literally edited out of history because she has a vagina.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/05/09/hassidic-newspaper-edits-clinton-iconic-situation-room-photo/