Continues to amaze me how widespread and fully entrenched such generalized beliefs are; they have taken on an air of “known fact” among laypeople and policy makers alike, yet have little to do with reality. See, for example, https://www.dovepress.com/female-genital-mutilation-and-male-circumcision-toward-an-autonomy-bas-peer-reviewed-article-MB …; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/hast.81 …https://twitter.com/Chaz_Davenport/status/1203277503713959941 …
Radical feminists made a very good job of hijacking female circumcision as the epitomy of male oppression, to be used as a batteringram!