The horror of cultural misogyny: Chinese woman's "needle ordeal"

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6983435.stm

Last Updated: Friday, 7 September 2007, 12:30 GMT 13:30 UK

Chinese woman's 'needle ordeal'


X-ray photo of Luo Cuifen, from Richland International Hospital
The needles were revealed by hospital X-rays


Doctors in China have discovered 26 sewing needles embedded in the body of a 31-year-old woman.

They think they were inserted into Luo Cuifen's body when she was a baby by grandparents upset she was not a boy.

Some of these needles have penetrated vital organs, such as the lungs, liver and kidneys. One has even broken into three pieces in the woman's brain.

The needles were discovered only when Ms Luo went to hospital complaining of blood in her urine.

She was given a routine X-ray, which revealed the needles. Up until then she had been in good health.

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Doctors believe the needles were inserted into the woman when she was just a few days old by her grandparents, whom they believe were disappointed that she was not a boy.

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In many rural areas boys were - and still are - valued more highly than girls. One reason is that they can carry on the family name.

...happened so recently.

Some of the older Chinese customs like foot binding are also very barbaric, but at least we can say that doesn't happen anymore.

What a terrible thing to do to a child!

in China that it has led to horrible fates for many baby girls, the one child policy has exacerbated the problem, baby girls are abandoned and left to die.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/1506469.stm

So they are reaping what they sow.

They will go out of balance!

I see a land war between India and China in the future.

they should be arrested. Disgusting.

ever hear of "binding"?



It was done to make the woman's feet smaller and hence, more "attractive"....

But that was a custom of the well-to-do. The average Chinese woman has always been required to work (which is incompatible with foot binding).

whose only function(s) was to marry an asshole of their family's choosing, and spit out as many babies as possible -- preferably males.

I'd rather work the fields.