I'm too tired tonight to do a line-by line critique, but the reductive claims about what FGM "boils down to" in terms of symbolic meanings is absolutely contradicted by the anthropological record (see discussion here https://www.academia.edu/10197867/Between_moral_relativism_and_moral_hypocrisy_reframing_the_debate_on_FGM_ …)
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For a direct and extended argument against the central claim of your article, seehttps://www.dovepress.com/female-genital-mutilation-and-male-circumcision-toward-an-autonomy-bas-peer-reviewed-article-MB …
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@insia_dariwala@SpeakoutonFGM Brilliantly articulated Brian. Someone sent me this article from the SpeakoutonFGM's FB page where a host of us have been banned. The opportunity to have an educated and intelligent debate is gone. Urging sahiyos to join in the debate
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And those authors actually say, “No doctor can become a vehicle for any ritual that is medically unsound, and whose intent is morally questionable.” I think this is called “making a rod for your own back.”
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Concern that
#FGM may be normalized is a pretext; the real fear of those who insist on driving a wedge between the forced genital cutting of both sexes is that male#circumcision will be viewed with the same scrutiny as FGM. Protection of male circumcision is their true goal.#i2 -
The New is for true equality, whereas the Old Feminists said, we will not water down our fight against FGM with any association with male circumcision, until females are protected, in the world.
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Sounds like organized misandry to me...
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