This Is Sorry

So do people just not understand how babies are conceived and how chromosomes play into gender selection? How are these people going to name a girl child "Sorry" because biology, not human intervention or fault, presented them with a girl? This is just as backwards as those men who think that a woman's body somehow creates boys or girls in the birth canal and blames them when a boy doesn't come out. I'm sorry for Sorry.

In many Asian cultures, begetting a female child is the biggest curse a family can endure.

Aapni Dhikri Ro Hak blog talks about families where they named their daughters 'Maafi', literally meaning 'Sorry', as a act of requesting forgiveness from God.

She is Maafi. Maafi in Hindi means 'Sorry'. She is the fourth girl born to her parents. They were so detested after Maafi's birth that they sought forgiveness from God. That is why they chose to name their fourth girl child 'Maafi'. Sorry God, no more daughters please."

It would be one thing if this only happened in poor, impoverished, uneducated communities. There are so-called informed people walking around today talking about "my wife gave me a son" as though she had something to do with it. Morons!