I think it only became an 'issue' now that feminism has gotten so carried away with itself. You know the old saying, "women want equality untill it's time to kill a spider or pick up the dinner tab."
In her analysis “Women and Genocide in Rwanda,” the former Rwandan politician Aloysia Inyumba stated that “The genocide in Rwanda is a far-reaching tragedy that has taken a particularly hard toll on women. They now comprise 70 percent of the population, since the genocide chiefly exterminated the male population.”
In a 1998 speech delivered before a domestic violence conference in El Salvador, former US senator and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that “Women have always been the primary victims of war. Women lose their husbands, their fathers, their sons in combat.”
These statements are illustrative of a wider trend of “male disposability.”
The author does a good job of a balanced article but still feels the need to appeal to feminist bias at the end. Guess they don’t feel THAT strongly that attitudes should shift.
This has gone on for thousands of years and now it's an issue? Wasn't one of the plagues of Egypt the slaughter of all firstborn sons?