The Marvels of Chinese Culture and Medicine
A woman dubbed “the human pincushion” had surgery to remove 26 pins and needles that her twisted grandparents shoved into her as a baby to somehow attempt to force her sex to change to male.
From the Telegraph here:
Doctors in China have saved the life of a woman who had 26 pins and needles inserted into her body when she was a child in an apparent attempt to change her sex to a boy.
The objects were discovered when the 29-year-old woman, named in local papers as Luo Cuifen, went to hospital for a check-up after she started experiencing blood in her urine.
They had penetrated vital organs such as the lungs, kidney and liver, while a needle in her brain had broken into three pieces. Others in her chest were lodged near major arteries.
The woman believes they were inserted into her as a child by her grandparents, who were disappointed she was not a boy.
Since the one-child policy came into force, around the time of Miss Luo’s birth, many girl children have been aborted, abandoned, or killed after birth – in some cases by grandparents.
What a wonderful culture where boys are better than girls. And what kind of screwed-up folk medicine did they practice in China that made anyone believe that needles could change the sex of a human?
I read in yahoo that the parents just wanted to kill her. Telegraph might’ve made a mistake.
Also, this isn’t any “Chinese medicine” – this is just some poor ignorant farmer who didn’t want a female daughter
Re: mcl: “this is just some poor ignorant farmer who didn’t want a female daughter”
Yes, Pat, so there!
That’s all it is, it’s just normal Chine peasant thinking in the workers and peasants paradise! That’s all.
I’ll translate mcl’s comment into Japanese:
“Hora, hora! Minaide, minaide! Ike, ike!”
Now I’ll translate it back to English:
“Hey! Nothing to see here! Move on!”
Related:
http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/8082
Check out the x-rays for Shafique el-Fahkri and the result of the surgery! That’s one lucky Muslim.
And speaking of the wonders of Chinese Civilization, you might enjoy this photo from Lhasa:
http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/6085/borisjoseph6sr7.jpg
Background: Tibetan/Buddhist civilization
Foreground: Chinese Civilization
Creepy Chinese Factory:
http://img49.imageshack.us/img49/8158/edwardburtynskychnaman1wv0.jpg
There was recently a House episode on TV about this exact case.