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Joseph Lewis
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@Joseph4GI

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Joseph Lewis

@Joseph4GI

Intactivist, human rights advocate

Stockton, CA
joseph4gi.blogspot.com
Joined August 2015

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    1. Joseph Lewis‏ @Joseph4GI Jan 3
      Replying to @Joseph4GI @paigeburns212 and

      How many laws are there against #FGM? How many organizations? How long people been speaking against FGM and telling men not to “pester” with their “non-issue?” I’m afraid that quite the opposite has been happening. FGM isn’t a problem western women have to face. #i2

      2 replies . 0 retweets 5 likes
    2. Joseph Lewis‏ @Joseph4GI Jan 3
      Replying to @Joseph4GI @paigeburns212 and

      I’d say it’s self-serving appropriation. White privileged women taking on an issue that’s NOT THEIRS and using it to tell men to “stop whining” about an actual problem that exists. #i2

      5 replies . 0 retweets 8 likes
    3. Joseph Lewis‏ @Joseph4GI Jan 3
      Replying to @Joseph4GI @paigeburns212 and

      @gassynur, what do you have to say about this? And call all your other African friends too. #i2pic.twitter.com/FxI5P1yvd4

      1 reply . 0 retweets 2 likes
    4. Paige‏ @paigeburns212 Jan 3
      Replying to @Joseph4GI @SRKinSeattle and

      I can have a convo about FGM without talking about circumcision. I can have a convo about breast cancer without talking about lung cancer.

      2 replies . 0 retweets 5 likes
    5. Joseph Lewis‏ @Joseph4GI Jan 3
      Replying to @paigeburns212 @SRKinSeattle and

      That’s called sexist segregation and silencing of issues. Let’s stop. Let’s address genital cutting of ALL sexes. The issue is one and the same. The issue does not belong to women. You no longer have a monopoly on this issue. #i2

      1 reply . 0 retweets 5 likes
    6. Paige‏ @paigeburns212 Jan 3
      Replying to @Joseph4GI @SRKinSeattle and

      Nope. It’s not. Sexism is shutting down conversation on a completely different women’s issue for a men’s issue.

      2 replies . 4 retweets 15 likes
    7. Kimberleigh Perkins‏ @KimberleighPer2 Jan 3
      Replying to @paigeburns212 @DrChaya and

      Isnt the difference because boys are cut at a day old n girls are mutilated at 8 or so?

      2 replies . 0 retweets 0 likes
    8. Paige‏ @paigeburns212 Jan 3
      Replying to @KimberleighPer2 @DrChaya and

      That’s one. Another is that the FGM being discussed originally was to keep the woman clean for men. Or to remove her clit. Or sew her shut

      1 reply . 0 retweets 0 likes
    9. Joseph Lewis‏ @Joseph4GI Jan 3
      Replying to @paigeburns212 @KimberleighPer2 and

      Circumcision was performed to keep men from masturbating and keeping them “pure” for god. But keep denying it. #i2

      1 reply . 0 retweets 4 likes
    10. Paige‏ @paigeburns212 Jan 3
      Replying to @Joseph4GI @KimberleighPer2 and

      And now that’s not why it’s performed. Reasons change, and the reasoning people have for it is different and has some medical backing

      1 reply . 0 retweets 0 likes
      Joseph Lewis‏ @Joseph4GI Jan 3
      Replying to @paigeburns212 @KimberleighPer2 and

      So it’s the “reasons,” is it? Yes, let’s just change the “reasons” for #FGM and it’ll be OK? Right. #i2

      3:41 pm - 3 Jan 2019
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        2. Paige‏ @paigeburns212 Jan 3
          Replying to @Joseph4GI @KimberleighPer2 and

          Yes. It’s reasons. If someone told me my chance for cancer and HIV would decrease with a small surgery and minimal long term effect,

          1 reply . 0 retweets 0 likes
        3. Paige‏ @paigeburns212 Jan 3
          Replying to @paigeburns212 @Joseph4GI and

          I would consider it.

          1 reply . 0 retweets 0 likes
        4. Joseph Lewis‏ @Joseph4GI Jan 3
          Replying to @paigeburns212 @KimberleighPer2 and

          Would you seriously consider it for your daughters? Let’s apply the logic here. Penile cancer affects 1 in 100,000 men. Vulvar cancer affects 1 in 400 women or so. Radical vulvectomy prevents cancer AND you can still enjoy sex. Ready to cut your daughters? #i2

          2 replies . 0 retweets 4 likes
        5. Joseph Lewis‏ @Joseph4GI Jan 3
          Replying to @Joseph4GI @paigeburns212 and

          https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.3109/01674828609016749 …

          2 replies . 0 retweets 1 like
        6. Paige‏ @paigeburns212 Jan 3
          Replying to @Joseph4GI @KimberleighPer2 and

          If there were a study with more than 10 people I would definitely think about this- esp for women wth BRCA gene

          1 reply . 0 retweets 0 likes
        7. Joseph Lewis‏ @Joseph4GI Jan 3
          Replying to @paigeburns212 @KimberleighPer2 and

          Wouldn’t it be better to look for non-invasive ways to prevent problems? I dunno about you, but the less parts of my children I have to have surgically removed, the better. #i2

          1 reply . 0 retweets 3 likes
        8. Joseph Lewis‏ @Joseph4GI Jan 3
          Replying to @Joseph4GI @paigeburns212 and

          Relevant to the topic; science tries to outdated itself. The point of medical research is to come up with better, more effective solutions to problems. Do you not see it as problematic that “researchers” are trying to keep medicine 2,000 years in the past? #i2

          1 reply . 0 retweets 1 like
        9. Joseph Lewis‏ @Joseph4GI Jan 3
          Replying to @Joseph4GI @paigeburns212 and

          Researchers are supposed to be making surgery obsolete. Here we “researchers” trying to necessitate a surgery that just happens to be a controversial religious ritual. Do you not see a conflict of interest here? #i2

          1 reply . 0 retweets 1 like
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        1. Joseph Lewis‏ @Joseph4GI Jan 3
          Replying to @Joseph4GI @paigeburns212 and

          What if “research” backed #FGM? Would it be OK? (Guess what; it does...) please stop it with the #pseudomedicine and #pseudoscience. It’s not about that. #i2 http://blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/2017/08/does-female-genital-mutilation-have-health-benefits-the-problem-with-medicalizing-morality/ …

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