Cultural substantiations for selective abortion
Most of men-drivers in Armenia believe that they are driving better than women are. When people are unable to become self-determined in other areas, they want to see their seeming advantages in the areas of “sexism”, and in given case, they are giving signals of displeasure and swearwords, allegedly, it is not your business to get on the driving wheel of the car. “It is not appropriate for us, the guys, to turn on the blinking light when changing the line, but, look, that car is turning on the blinking light. Definitely, a woman is on the wheel, yeah, well, she is a woman by origin. Who gives a driving license to them?” Thus, the men-drivers are statistically more dangerous than women-drivers, also because a part of male representatives along with driving the car are trying to prove that women do not know driving, so to speak, “to give a lesson” to female gender to prove that the latter should not get involved in this “male” business.
Let’s take another aspect, the journalism, where, as it is known, women make the vast majority. Some explain it with low wages. But the journalist in Armenia are paid so bad. The average salary amount to 150-200 thousand drams. Of course, you cannot buy a “Rolls – Royce” with that money and would not go to the Canary Islands to rest. But, how many thousands of unemployed men are there in our country, who would not go for “migrant work” in case of receiving this much salary? The reason for prevalence of women in our profession, by my observations, should be looked for another place. The employers prefer to hire women not because of low wages, but because women are more conscientious, more disciplined, and more organized.
The work of a journalist, as you know, is related to every day running about and implementation of editorial tasks. The boys, especially when leaving the student age, do not “consider this running about appropriate for them”, they see something humiliating their male dignity. Like in the case of drivers, everything is conditioned by the education, by and large, by the culture. There is no physiological problem here, because, according to recent researches, the structure and functions of the human brain are not conditioned by the sex. There is no ethnic peculiarity either, because most of the men working and living in Europe do not have these prejudices.
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Villainous phenomenon of selective abortions, when male children are preferable more than female ones, certainly, this is the consequence of such prejudices. The only “antidote” of this phenomenon is the educational work, overcoming the stereotypes, because to impose the doctors not to tell the sex of the future child is naïve in the Armenian conditions. “The boy will be a backup in my life,” I do not understand what this means. Will help in agricultural practices? Whereas the girl would not do it? Recently, I was communicating with a five-year old girl in a remote village, who was interrupting our conversation by implementing all the tasks of an adult as with regard to the animals.
And then, do you deliver a baby to the world to be “a backup to you” and “give a glass of water at your old age”? This, I think, is an expression of extreme selfishness. Selective abortions will vanish when the Armenian mothers will stop trembling for their sons more than for their girls and will stop idolizing and pampering their sons, reasoning, “Well, he is a baby boy.” These “baby boys” grew to men, who rank them high over the female gender, and who push their wives to give birth to only sons.
ARAM ABRAHAMYAN
