Thread:User talk:WaitingforGodot/Making light of thingies./reply

I'm actually 100% with you. Like i said on the salon thread - i **used to be** this exact kind of feminist. HOW DARE YOU TALK ABOUT YOUR BOY PARTS!!!! THIS IS SERIOUS STUFF!!!. Then I met a woman who had been scared, met guys from Indonesia who had been - sorry to say, "mutilated" cause they were circumcised "in the field" "at eight", as is tradition there. One is not better or worse than the other. Both can bring death, both can be "fine and safe with no lasting problems". To me, it's a child abuse issue, period. I am actually sickened at the UN for ADVISING that we circumcise boy cause it **might** improve their ability to defend against aids. If someone said "cutting off your tits at 13 will INSURE you don't get breast cancer" who would say "ok" to that. (and i won't even go into the poor quality of the studies done by and for the UN, yes "lancet" published them, but lancet also published the now world-famous "study" about vaccination causing autism. Just cause a study proves a CORROLATIOn, does not mean it's something that should be put into practice.

So you have every right jump into the conversations about whatever, I think. As long as you are using comprable settings. I'd not compare what is done to AMERICAN boys with what is done in Africa to african girls. but i would compare what is done to indonesian boys, aboriginal boys, etc. it's all about context.

Want some gory gory gory descriptions of what is done to little Aboriginal boys? It makes what's done to african girls look like a summer day at the races.