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Susan B.
06/05/09

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Wouldn't a "reverse dowry" just be a dower?
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bowleserised
06/06/09

@Susan B.: Is that another word for "bride wealth"?
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linnyt is a walking cliché
06/05/09

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bad girls. some people just suck and will find away to exploit a bad situation, no matter what it is.

when china's population dips because there are many less women having children, it's not going to be pretty for china or us with the way they own us. this whole plan was bad from the beginning and it;s only going to get worse.
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Gingerlime
06/05/09

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I'm sure this is going to sound awful, but I'm not sure I feel bad at all. A country reaps what it sows, no?
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LadyFabulous
06/05/09

@Gingerlime: I get what you mean, and sort of agree with you, but then I think about the flip side... this happens in India a lot.

Guys from Western countries (ie: mainly Canada and the States) will go to India, make all these demands on a bride's family, get married, and take off with the loot. It's unspeakably horrible for those women because not only are the families often financially crippled afterwards, but their reputations are tarnished as well.
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inabook
06/05/09

@Gingerlime: I feel for the parents who had to live in that country, unable to have the sort of family they might have desired-- one with sons AND daughters.
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mbot says Spock yeah!
06/05/09

@Gingerlime: I know. The grownup part of my brain understands that this is sad and complicated and whatever; but there's a more immediate and emotional part of me that just screams, "What the FUCK did you think was going to happen when all you wanted was boys?"
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linnyt is a walking cliché
06/05/09

@Gingerlime: but those scammed individuals didn't have anything to do with the policy. the government blows but the husbands still don't deserve to be robbed. that doesn't make things right.
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Gingerlime
06/05/09

@LadyFabulous: I hear what you're saying, but I'm not sure you can really compare a situation with a privileged Western man taking advantage of a third world family with Chinese women rebelling against a culture that has historically valued them.
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LadyFabulous
06/05/09

@Gingerlime: True. I do agree with your original statement; it's just the whole entire issue makes me sick.

People are still trying to deny gay people the right to marry and here the straighties are taking advantage of their right to marry, disrespecting marriage, and being disgustingly selfish.
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sybann
06/05/09

@Gingerlime: I had the exact same response thinking of all those forced abortions and Chinese girls being raised on American soil. Kinda "suck it, China."
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