More on the Y chromosome....

This week-old story tragically illustrates what a culture will do with the "scientifically-supported" idea of sexual differences.

CAIRO, Egypt (AP) -- An Egyptian woman married to a man with six daughters from previous marriages drowned herself Saturday just hours after giving birth to a girl because she feared her husband's reaction to fathering another daughter.

The 27-year-old woman left her home in Saff, a rural town about 25 miles [40 kilometers] south of the Egyptian capital, Cairo, and drowned herself in an irrigation canal three hours after giving birth to her second daughter, police officials told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.

Before his wife gave birth, her husband had threatened to kill or divorce her if the couple had any more daughters, police said.

And to think, it's the male who contributes--or not--the Y chromosome to make a baby a boy.

Gender, which in my opinion is almost entirely socially-constructed, has become about distribution of power. Which is neither morally nor biologically justifiable.

Appalling story here.