# "Cite?" is wearing very thin **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 26, 2009, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cite-is-wearing-very-thin/483065 "2009-01-26T16:55:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 122
**Author:** ![Rune](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e68b1a/32.png) [@Rune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rune)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2009, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cite-is-wearing-very-thin/483065/122 "2009-02-23T13:43:14Z")
> [@Aborting gay fetuses](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aborting-gay-fetuses/486662/67): > > > [@LonesomePolecat](#): > > > > Perhaps, but in India and China there is a growing imbalance in the ratio of the sexes because more female than male fetuses are aborted.Here in the States there’s some speculation that a drop in crimes rates may have been due in large part to abortion, since many women who had gotten pregnant in unfavorable circumstances for raising a child are now aborting rather than carrying their pregnancies to term. Abortion obviously can have significant impact on a society. > > Cite? [Cite-bullshit](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=10854531&postcount=67) - a person takes the time to write a few lines, at least the person asking for a cite could make the effort to try to narrow in what it is he wants cited, rather than just reply with a blanket CITE. Here she doesn’t take the time to specify what of the five points in the quoted paragraph she wants a cite for. Perhaps she had no clue that in India and China there are some problems with “imbalance in the ratio of the sexes” or perhaps she has never heard of the idea that some people have speculated that the “drop in crimes rates may have been due in large part to abortion” or it is one of the other things she wants a cite? Who knows. In any case, such a lazy attitude is not worthy of response. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cite-is-wearing-very-thin/483065)._