--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Aug 12, 2006, at 7:54 PM, authfriend wrote: > > > I thought you didn't get his posts. > > I read them in *your* posts and those of others, Judy, geez--don't > you read your own posts? How am I supposed to avoid them there? > Stop quoting him and there would be a lot less of a problem.
Well, heck, maybe you should just stop reading the posts of everyone who quotes Lawson's posts, since his seem to be such a terrible problem for you. > > Or do you only get the ones you can > > contradict? > > Yeah, that's the ticket...pull another of your let's-start-an- > argument stunts. Just a comment on the nitwittery of killfiling. > It says there's a *lot* of exceptions, actually. > Turns out to be nowhere near as draconian as we > had been imagining. > > Which was not the main issue, of course--the cultural preference > for girls (You mean boys, I think.) was, and it's *especially* noticeable in many rural > areas, in which apparently somewhat larger families are allowed. > Even so, in many villages boys still outnumber girls supposedly by > 4 to 1. Don't know about that statistic. In one recent census, the proportion of males to females throughout China was 106:100. The "natural" proportion in China is 104:100. It adds up, certainly, over a billion people, but it's not as bad as I had been imagining. And the excess of males is going down. In any case, in this discussion you really can't isolate any specific issue; they all affect each other. > > In any case, you seem not to have received > > either of the two posts in which he acknowledged > > he had been mistaken about the policy being > > abandoned. > > > > One good reason not to killfile people, BTW. > > You can end up with a lot of egg on your face. > > Somehow I'll manage to live with it. I imagine you've had quite a bit of experience. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/