When red pillers talk about dowries.

It creeps me out, makes out women to be like stock at a grocery store or something, as if the man can just return her for his dowry back if it doesn't work out. In reality, that kind of system has led to infanticide, murder of women, abuse of women, child marriage, slavery (poor people can't pay off loans so they go into debt,) discrimination against the disabled, and poorer education for younger girls. It's absolutely awful that some men in America think this way.

https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/8-reasons-dowries-are-bad-for-women/