Current Events > I just learned there's a girls name in India which means 'We wanted a boy'

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Nakusha, or Nakushi, is a derogatory given name that means "unwanted" in the Indian language Marathi, given by some parents in rural Maharashtra, India, to unwanted female children, in the belief that doing so will ensure that their next child is a boy.

A government campaign exists to find such girls, and allow them to officially change their names. In the Satara district, girls named "Nakusha" or "Nakushi" are renamed, automatically enrolled in school and granted free transport to school, while parents of these children obtain free food.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/b/b36630ba.jpg

That's depressing man.

WTF, what shitty parents.

Good job by the government.

UnfairRepresent posted...

while parents of these children obtain free food.

Why the fuck are they being rewarded? They should starve while the kids should eat like queens

Azn_Psycho posted...

Why the fuck are they being rewarded? They should starve while the kids should eat like queens

Probably a bribe to get them to agree to the name change and stuff, and not do something even worse because of their stupid sexist superstition.

Government: "Wtf is this misogynistic shit, lets do something for these poor girls."

Parents:"Noooo, you can't do this, that's overstepping your bounds, we have the right to treat our kids like shit!"

Government: "Here is some food, now STFU".

Such policies will just lead to more girls being named Nakushi.

Azn_Psycho posted...

Why the fuck are they being rewarded? They should starve while the kids should eat like queens

Probably to encourage the parents not to kill or abuse their unwanted kids.

Durseys might have treated Harry better if they got government benefits out of it

But I agree its fucked

Better to have a shit name in India than to be born a girl in China.

chaos_knight posted...

Such policies will just lead to more girls being named Nakushi

That's what I was thinking

that's a good way to make your kids resent you for the rest of their lives...

"Hey daddy, what does my name mean?"

"Well..."

Why not ban the name

DragulaRULEZ posted...

Better to have a shit name in India than to be born a girl in China.

Suuureee as if bad names are the only issues facing women in India.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violence_against_women_in_India
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_infanticide_in_India

The girl knows, and all the family knows, and all the neighbors.

It's like intentionally giving your kid a name that will be mocked by anyone.

Don't half of them have the same last name anyway? What fucking difference does it make if it gets passed on or not?

party_animal07 posted...

That's what I was thinking

Edit: I couldn't quote that removing the period. For some reason, it was causing a censor bypass warning.

A leftover from the old GF days where you weren't allowed to * out one letter of a curse. It was all or nothing.

I don't know how Chaos was able to post as-is, if that filter still operates, though...

DnDer posted...

A leftover from the old GF days where you weren't allowed to * out one letter of a curse. It was all or nothing.

I don't know how Chaos was able to post as-is, if that filter still operates, though...

You still can't just block one letter. What changed is you can now give the first letter *and* the length, not just one or the other. That and the auto filter for some words.

Trumble posted...

You still can't just block one letter. What changed is you can now give the first letter *and* the length, not just one or the other. That and the auto filter for some words.

I use a * for every letter but first and last. That seems to work for me.

Nakushi literally means "no joy" lmao this is so fucked up

Sufferedphoenix posted...

I use a * for every letter but first and last. That seems to work for me.

That's still considered censor bypassing (probably won't be modded as harshly as an intentional bypass though). You can give either the first letter, the length, or both; or for some words you can type out the word normally and let the site's user-configurable filter deal with it.

Using "burp" (which is not an actual banned / filtered word) as an example,
Okay: burp (if the word is only filtered), b***, ****, b-word, [censored]
Not okay: bu2p, b*rp, b**p, b-u-r-p

Keep in mind that if you use a correctly-censored word in a way that violates another rule you can still be modded for that. So don't go around eg. saying "fuck you" to people assuming that you're fine if you censor it properly. On the other hand, you can say "I don't give a fuck" as long as you're not bypassing the censor.

Trumble posted...

That's still considered censor bypassing (probably won't be modded as harshly as an intentional bypass though). You can give either the first letter, the length, or both; or for some words you can type out the word normally and let the site's user-configurable filter deal with it.

Using "burp" (which is not an actual banned / filtered word) as an example,
Okay: burp (if the word is only filtered), b***, ****, b-word, [censored]
Not okay: bu2p, b*rp, b**p, b-u-r-p

Keep in mind that if you use a correctly-censored word in a way that violates another rule you can still be modded for that. So don't go around eg. saying "fuck you" to people assuming that you're fine if you censor it properly. On the other hand, you can say "I don't give a fuck" as long as you're not bypassing the censor.

I guess context helps sometimes
. When I've done this I was using offensive words bur not Ina offensive way. Like quoting something for example

Yeah if you just censor one letter the automatic censor bypass won't see it and children will read the word