Success is the Best Revenge

1. K T Cat
   May 4th, 2009 at 11:21 am

   What a wonderful story! Thanks for sharing it with us.

2. CFME
   May 4th, 2009 at 11:30 am

   Yes, this is a beautiful story. It was wrong for her husband to want the daughter destroyed. It would be equally wrong if the roles were reversed and the mother wanted the girl destroyed. Yet, that is exactly what happens when a woman "chooses" to have an abortion.

3. Gauldar
   May 4th, 2009 at 12:07 pm

   "For Neera, the memory of her husband’s cruelty remains a “nightmare”. He had a respectable job but was a philanderer, prone to domestic violence. After the birth of her first child, a girl named Shubhra, he made her life a misery. When she became pregnant again, seven years later, Neera clung to the hope that if the baby was a boy her marriage could be saved. Instead she had Pooja. Her husband and his relatives refused to visit the baby in hospital. "

   @CFME

   I find it interesting that you focus on that point, when you should be focusing on the fact that the husband was a complete douche from the first child before they had Pooja. This is about long dead traditions that need to change, and to stop living in the medieval times where sex or deformity has nothing to do with the individual. The fact that your against women to have free choice over being able to support and raise a child when they can barley survive on their own is just as oppressive as the father that demanded a son. I'm just glad she got herself away from that dead beat dad and idiot relatives to make a life for her and her children.

4. artbot
   May 4th, 2009 at 12:53 pm

   It's too bad she couldn't have "made her mum proud" by, you know, _doing_ something other than just being an attractive woman.

5. mikos
   May 4th, 2009 at 1:10 pm

   @CFME

   Go back under the bridge...

6. La_Petite_Poi
   May 4th, 2009 at 2:54 pm

   mikos,

   since when is it wrong for people to have an opinion?

7. mikos
   May 4th, 2009 at 6:05 pm

   @ La_Petite_Poi:

   Wikipedia says:
   Troll: in Internet slang, is someone who posts controversial, inflammatory, irrelevant or off-topic messages in an online community, such as an online discussion forum or chat room, with the primary intent of provoking other users into an emotional response.

8. pooja chopra
   May 4th, 2009 at 10:51 pm

   she is great

9. catlady
   May 4th, 2009 at 10:56 pm

   mikos: thanks for making me laugh.

10. ted
    May 5th, 2009 at 8:27 am

    Sorry, I missed what type of cancer she found a cure for...?

    mikos, so what's it called when you accuse someone of trolling, who states their opinion, albeit a controversial one, in an appropriate post?

    I'm more in the middle. I don't think women should get abortions for frivolous reasons, but I think they should have the ability to get them. If this couple had the opportunity abort their child based on its sex, then that would be as wrong to me as killing her after birth. CFME blames the mother before birth, which is incorrect, since the husband would have made that choice for her, if he could have. That's why the woman left. Choosing boys over girls is a cultural bias, and not a matter of women's rights.

11. OddNumber
    May 5th, 2009 at 11:05 am

    I can't claim to understand the value in beauty pageants, but I think there is very real value that may come from her winning this contest. She was unwanted as a baby due to her gender, but by winning a national contest (any contest) she will hopefully further the cause of other young women who might not have been wanted.

    Yes, it was a just beauty contest, but it is prestigious nonetheless and hopefully changes some of the gender based perceptions in her society.

12. PaulVI
    May 5th, 2009 at 3:47 pm

    I was looking for *really good revenge*, a la O. Henry or, oh, Stephen King. Well, her success is a nice story, anyway.

13. CFME
    May 5th, 2009 at 7:18 pm

    This is like a bad Lifetime movie. MEN BAD!!! WOMEN GOOD!!! NO MATTER WHAT WOMAN DO, WOMAN GOOD!!! The father wanted the child destroyed after it was born. I agree he is bad. So, if the MOTHER wanted to abort her child (a month earlier, still inside her) then she is GOOD!!! It's HER choice, she is GOOD!!! Thank you, I will be communing with other likewise pro-life troll dolls. You can slice this anyway you want, tell yourself stories to make yourself feel better, rationalize till your hair falls out, but at the end of the day, if you abort, you have to pay for it the rest of your life.

14. emmiline valentine
    May 8th, 2009 at 1:32 am

    CFME-
    i don't recall anyone ever jumping up and down, pumping their fist in the air, asking for high-fives and saying that abortion was awesome and every woman should do it.
    you're a complete idiot (if you are indeed not a troll) if you think that abortion is an easy choice- even for the so called "frivolous women" who "use them as their method of birth control".
    and as for "having to pay for the rest of your life"- it's none of your business what an individual chooses or goes through in life. and since i'm pretty sure you're not psychic and will never know the best outcome for everyone- maybe you should be a little bit more compassionate. the fact is that everyone has difficult choices to make that may not fall in line with what you might do given the same situation- but most people do the best they can with what they have at the time.

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