Many of the girls at risk of FGM are under the age of 5, the UN says. Around 230 million women and girls around the world are survivors of the practice.

Many of the girls at risk of FGM are under the age of 5, the UN says. Around 230 million women and girls around the world are survivors of the practice.

    • Chippys_mittens@lemmy.worldEnglish
      133·
      19 hours ago

      Mods removed my former reply so I’ll just say, read or look into “desert flower”, “seven” or “stitch”. If you think circumcision is tantamount to cutting a clit off, cauterizing large sections, or sewing the vagina semi-permanently shut. This is all typically as young girls not as babies. The trauma experienced cements the way they see the world values them. CIRCUMCISION IS BAD, IT IS NOT THE SAME THING.

      • ms.lane@lemmy.worldEnglish
        42·
        18 hours ago

        False equivalence.

        Things done in caves in Afganistan aren’t comparable to things done in a theatre in Iran. Yet both are brutal.

        • Chippys_mittens@lemmy.worldEnglish
          42·
          18 hours ago

          One is objectively demonstrably worse. I’m not going to an anti circumcision post and saying “hey what about female genital mutilation” as is happening here. For what goal I’d add? I can’t see an objective aside from attempting to diminish the suffering being discussed. Obscuring the issue by conflating it with a completely different thing is wrong.

          • Gathorall@lemmy.worldEnglish
            33·
            17 hours ago

            The objective is that when you champion pointless torture you’re for torture, you’re just thinking you stop at the right point. You’re no better than a bigot who only hates a certain nationality. As long as circumsion is legal this isn’t a moral stance, it is a cultural preference, bigotry.

            • Chippys_mittens@lemmy.worldEnglish
              21·
              15 hours ago

              I literally say that circumcision is bad but a completely different issue. You’re no better than someone screaming “men get raped too” when discussing the sexual assault cases of women. Its a separate thing completely and you trying to crowbar it into this conversation just shows you want to discredit the current topic. Shameful behavior.

    • TheDoozer@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      9 hours ago

      I get what you are saying, but that’s not the way to do it.

      “What about male genital mutilation?”

      “We should ban all mutilation of genitals of children. It is barbaric. Some more than others, but it’s all bad.”

      If all you do is respond with essentially “what about this other thing that this particular article isn’t talking about,” it derails the conversation of the current article. Saying that all aspects of the subject if the article are bad and have no place in society says “I agree with this, and let’s extend it further.”