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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker Jan 13

    Female genital mutilation is in decline - story of a remarkable young woman who overturned the practice against steep odds in one of the world’s most patriarchal cultures, the Maasai.https://nyti.ms/2Fxr8AB 

    7:42 AM - 13 Jan 2018
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      1. Richj61‏ @richj61 Jan 13
        Replying to @sapinker

        It can't decline quick enough. More power to women like this opposing this barbaric practice. Genital mutilation of both sexes needs to be stopped.

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      1. Mass Bay Intactivists‏ @MassBayIntact Jan 13
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        Any form of non-consensual, non-therapeutic genital cutting is an atrocity.https://www.doctorsopposingcircumcision.org/ 

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      1. Roger Latour‏ @ROGERLATOUR Jan 13
        Replying to @sapinker

        Dreadful practice! Lets also have a thought for Emuratare (circumcision).

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      1. Sujoy‏ @Sujoy1026 Jan 13
        Replying to @sapinker

        Time to raise similar awareness and opposition to male circumcision

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      1. Joseph Lewis‏ @Joseph4GI Jan 13
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        Activists try to paint this as “patriarchal culture.” The fact is the practice is often perpetuated by women as a sign of womanhood themselves. Please don’t forget that men in the same group face the same ostracism if they wish to forgo the cut, which can also result in tragedy.

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      1. Rex Nikora Murray‏ @reximusprime31 Jan 13
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        Now all we have to do is stop male genital mutilation.

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      1. Digital Totem‏ @Octopus65602979 Jan 13
        Replying to @sapinker

        Cool. Next let's stop genital mutilation of boys in "patriarchal" cultures.

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      2. Alex Murillo‏ @alex_amurillo Jan 13
        Replying to @sapinker

        But according to a certain moral relativist worldview, this story is neither good nor bad. (PS Have you seen the great Senegalese film “Moolaade”? Well worth checking out, and essentially covers this issue).

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      3. Ghost‏ @Peter58486781 Jan 15
        Replying to @alex_amurillo @sapinker

        Having spent almost my entire life (around 50 years) in the most liberal places in the US, I’ve literally have never heard one person argue this.

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      4. Alex Murillo‏ @alex_amurillo Jan 16
        Replying to @Peter58486781 @sapinker

        Our prime minister refused to call it barbaric. That was one person.

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      1. Richard Drench‏ @MisterWaterboat Jan 13
        Replying to @sapinker

        This article erases the Kenyan boys who are also forcibly cut, who can lose their genitals or their lives as a result. It's also misleading to imply that FGC is only enforced by men: https://www.pri.org/stories/2014-07-02/why-do-these-women-kenya-support-female-genital-mutilation … #i2

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      1.  ❌Deplorabot  ❤️ 🇺🇸‏ @buybuydandavis Jan 15
        Replying to @sapinker @CathyYoung63

        When do we get rid of male genital mutilation?

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      2. Brent Danley‏ @brentdanley Jan 13
        Replying to @sapinker

        What do you think of male genital mutilation (aka circumcision)?

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      1. ThePrussian‏ @ThePrussian1 Mar 21
        Replying to @sapinker @eclint

        If Pinker thinks the Maasai are the most patriarchal, he needs to get out more.

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      1. Melanie Byng‏ @ThetisMercurio Jan 20
        Replying to @sapinker

        Wow.

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      2. Lorens Eilert‏ @Leilertorens Jan 15
        Replying to @sapinker

        It is good news, but FGM is not caused by "patriarchy". It is a Matriarchal form of violence http://psycnet.apa.org/record/2002-02996-003 …

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      3. Lorens Eilert‏ @Leilertorens Jan 15
        Replying to @Leilertorens @sapinker

        More men oppose FGM than women ( in most countries where practiced ).https://www.unicef.org/media/media_91902.html …

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