The_Face_of_Boo
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Location: Beirut, Lebanon.
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22 Mar 2019, 2:15 pm
The_Face_of_Boo wrote:
magz wrote:
I agree with your mother.
I don't see any fundamental difference between infant circumcision for no reason and the so much deplored female genital mutilation. To me, both are equally barbaric - maybe because both are virtually absent in my culture.
I don't see any fundamental difference between infant circumcision for no reason and the so much deplored female genital mutilation. To me, both are equally barbaric - maybe because both are virtually absent in my culture.
The occurence of FGM is waaaaay less common than male circumcision, the former only happens in the most backward regions of the world, and still there’s much more uproar in media about it than the male circumcision that was happening to 90% of American newborn boys and still is still happening to virtually all newborn boys in the Muslim/Jewish world.
I recall there were even women here on WP, often Americans, who would justify male circumcision because “it is not as bad as FGM, it is just a piece of skin” or something like that. Pure backwardness, I have no respect for such “opinions”.
This is another example how far the media doesn’t care about boys/males, the world doesn’t care about males’ sufferings in general, some hundreds baby girls get FMG and the whole world uproars and gets crazy, we have seen countless of news segments, UN reports and even documentary films on the FGM subject,
but millions, probably reached bilions of baby boys get mutilited officially in hospitals for centuries? No one bats an eye.
And now I expect some member to tell me to stop “whining” about this, no I will not, and if he/she sees this is a non-issue then he/she is an another ret*d backward in my book. This topic is just like Rape, it can’t have a “gray” opinion.
If in the past fgm had been done on 90% of women it’d be seen as the norm and people would defend it. Anything bad if normalized doesn’t seem bad it’s just normal. But it didn’t become normal, if religious people and earlier doctors said it was medically needed it’s been normal and since most of the population had it done they wouldn’t see it as bad. Some Women who have had it done want it done on their daughters cause or was done on them, their mom, their grandma, it’s just normal why wouldn’t it be done they say.
Anything can be normalized and made ok it’s quite concerning. Just cause it’s what our ancestors did doesn’t make it right
22 Mar 2019, 2:20 pm
22 Mar 2019, 2:21 pm
Can we talk about ASD disclosure instead of ritualistic child abuse please?
I really want to know when being an aspie is suddenly an actual commonplace topic & not this cliché "freak of the week" type of sensationalism.
We need to know when that's finally happening.
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22 Mar 2019, 2:27 pm
22 Mar 2019, 2:28 pm
Perhaps that's true of boring people, plenty of other people are much more curious than that. That kind of thinking slams a lot of doors in a lot of faces, including ours.
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"Standing on a well-chilled cinder, we see the fading of the suns, and try to recall the vanished brilliance of the origin of the worlds."
-Georges Lemaitre
"I fly through hyperspace, in my green computer interface"
-Gem Tos
22 Mar 2019, 2:57 pm
22 Mar 2019, 3:11 pm
cberg wrote:
Perhaps that's true of boring people, plenty of other people are much more curious than that. That kind of thinking slams a lot of doors in a lot of faces, including ours.
Weren’t been around for who knows how long and we still aren’t accepted by most people. We are still stigmatized by most. It’s better they dont kill us(besides abortions) or lock us up anymore(except UK). But no I don’t feel accepted and it’s a big turn off for relationships. Hasn’t been any progress in my lifetime and I don’t expect their to be before I die.
It’s just reality. I wish we wouldn’t be stigmatized and rejected and have to be alone but we do
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