Showing posts with label INFANTICIDE. Show all posts
Showing posts with label INFANTICIDE. Show all posts

Saturday, April 12, 2014

The Five Most Sexist/Misogynistic Print Ads From The Last Five Years I’ve seen scores of female-abusing ads. These are the five worst.


http://www.buzzfeed.com/copyranter/the-five-most-sexistmisogynistic-print-ads-from-t

1. Used BMWs, Greece

1. Used BMWs, Greece
0–69 in 6.9 seconds. She looks about 15. Ad agency: BBDO Greece.

2. Bacardi, Israel

2. Bacardi, Israel
Online promotion that was quickly pulled. Not quick enough. Women worldwide lambasted Bacardi over this inconceivably idiotic idea. Ad agency: McCann Digital, Tel Aviv.

3. Coopers Light Lager, Singapore

3. Coopers Light Lager, Singapore
Get it? Because of the lower alcohol content, you horny guys will only be wearing partial beer goggles—saving you from banging fat chicks. The ad won a bronze lion at Cannes, which prompted Coopers to issue a statement saying they never “officially” commissioned the ad. Ad agency: JWT Singapore.

4. Duncan Quinn, USA

4. Duncan Quinn, USA
Duncan sells handmade ready-to-wear and bespoke men’s suits: “Savile Row meets Rock ‘n Roll.” Fashion is Death, they say.

5. Burger King, Singapore

5. Burger King, Singapore
The King of the Blow Job Ads. Amazing.
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Friday, April 11, 2014

Infanticide in China



Chinese girls are twice as likely to die in their first year of life as boys.[i]

The death rate of girls in their first year of life is up to three times higher in rural areas than in urban areas.[ii]

The risk of death is three times higher for second girls than first girls.[iii]

Second girls are more than twice as likely to die in their first week after birth as boys.[iv]

95% of abandoned children in rural areas live outside of state-controlled orphanages.[v]

Fewer than half of China’s orphans receive government subsidies.[vi]

Parents who remarry have been known to abandon their child so they can have a new child with their new spouse.[vii]

In 1995, the Chinese government reported that there were 40,000 orphanages.[viii]

In 2009, Americans adopted more orphans from China than in any other country, totaling 3001 adoptions.[ix]

In 2011, the most recent year for which data is available, Americans adopted 2587 children from China.[x]

A total of 24,635 Chinese mainland children were adopted in 2012. Eighty-seven percent were adopted by parents from the mainland, while the remaining 3,311 children were adopted by overseas parents.[xi]

Around 74 percent of Chinese mainland children adopted by overseas parents in 2012 were disabled or older children.[xii]


 

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[vii]  Li, Xinran. “Mother Gets Death After Ordering her Son’s Murder.” Shanghaidaily.com. January 16, 2009)
[x] Bureau of Consular Affairs, U.S. Department of State, “Intercountry Adoption: China,” June 2011http://adoption.state.gov/country_information/country_specific_info.php?country-select=china
[xi] Figures from the Ministry of Civil Affairs, as cited in “3000-plus Chinese mainland children adopted overseas: official,” February 20, 2013, http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2013-02/20/c_132180895.htm
[xii] Figures from the Ministry of Civil Affairs, as cited in “3000-plus Chinese mainland children adopted overseas: official,” February 20, 2013, http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2013-02/20/c_132180895.htm
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