Post by Deleted on Mar 20, 2015 14:12:03 GMT -6
I'm not just saying this for a catchy title, either. If Ebola is what it took to stop this insane and evil practice, then it CAN be said that Ebola carried a silver lining. However unlikely that would sound to suggest? Stopping this...meets the standard under the circumstances. At least in my humble opinion.
Amazing.....just amazing. It takes this level of horror to stop another horror.
For those who aren't entirely familiar with what we're talking about here, or may imagine it as being something different? Lets make clear what "FGM" actually IS, and what it is intended to accomplish.
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When done properly, with sterile instruments, within a clean facility and by skilled doctors....this is barbaric. The worst thing is, it is robbing a woman of one of the few things we havem inherent within us from birth (to be blunt) and which no one should ever be able to take away. The literal fulfillment of human sexuality.
"FGM" doesn't just affirm the Woman's place as little more than life support for a producing womb, but insures by medical procedure, they won't even be a party to enjoying anything about the 'producing' process.
I say that the sooner this is made a permanent change? The better! The more nations to go this direction? The better!
This doesn't even compare to circumcision, as that has some logic behind it (whether we agree or not ...more important things are based on far less logic, to be sure) as well as having no real net downside, unless the procedure is screwed up (errr...small errors make BIG catastrophes, I suppose). Anyway.... it'll be a great day when we no longer have women in the world being butchered to remove sexual feeling, as if they could be made into little thinking and reasoning robots for service to the male of the household. (and women think they have it tough for 'tudes in America? lol)
LONDON, March 20 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The Ebola epidemic that has ravaged West Africa appears to have brought the practice of female genital mutilation (FGM) to a near halt in Sierra Leone, a British minister said on Friday.
Amazing.....just amazing. It takes this level of horror to stop another horror.
For those who aren't entirely familiar with what we're talking about here, or may imagine it as being something different? Lets make clear what "FGM" actually IS, and what it is intended to accomplish.
FGM involves the partial or total removal of the external genitalia and is often carried out in mass initiation ceremonies with many girls cut using the same blade.
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FGM affects an estimated 140 million girls and women across a swathe of Africa and parts of the Middle East and Asia. In Sierra Leone some 88 percent of girls and women have been cut.
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FGM affects an estimated 140 million girls and women across a swathe of Africa and parts of the Middle East and Asia. In Sierra Leone some 88 percent of girls and women have been cut.
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When done properly, with sterile instruments, within a clean facility and by skilled doctors....this is barbaric. The worst thing is, it is robbing a woman of one of the few things we havem inherent within us from birth (to be blunt) and which no one should ever be able to take away. The literal fulfillment of human sexuality.
"FGM" doesn't just affirm the Woman's place as little more than life support for a producing womb, but insures by medical procedure, they won't even be a party to enjoying anything about the 'producing' process.
I say that the sooner this is made a permanent change? The better! The more nations to go this direction? The better!
This doesn't even compare to circumcision, as that has some logic behind it (whether we agree or not ...more important things are based on far less logic, to be sure) as well as having no real net downside, unless the procedure is screwed up (errr...small errors make BIG catastrophes, I suppose). Anyway.... it'll be a great day when we no longer have women in the world being butchered to remove sexual feeling, as if they could be made into little thinking and reasoning robots for service to the male of the household. (and women think they have it tough for 'tudes in America? lol)