Quote: (11-27-2012 10:06 AM)megatron Wrote:
Quote: (11-27-2012 09:42 AM)Timoteo Wrote:
While I kind of see your point, removing some skin isn't in the same ballpark as having your genitalia cut completely out with a dirty razor blade or some other instrument. I suggest you watch the film "Desert Flower," the story of fashion model Waris Dirie (model Liya Kebede played Dirie in the film. She was the African woman that was thrown out of the plane in "The Good Shepherd."). I know we like to point out double standards and inconsistencies between the sexes, but comparing male circumcision with genital mutilation is simply dishonest.
Huh?
How is slicing a necessary part of a person's reproductive organ not genital mutilation?
Your argument is that if we start clitoral circumcisions with safety and sterility measures, then that would cease to be genital mutilation?
And you respond with even more dishonesty. I don't consider removal of foreskin to be mutilation. If you want to make that argument, find, I don't see where I tried to argue that removal of labia, the clitoris, clitoral hood, etc. in a more sterile environment lessens the fact that it's mutilation. I'm circumsized, and my genitals are definitely not mutilated. I'm thinking you have no idea what gential mutilation actually entails. The equivalent for men would be the removal of your penis head, or the whole penis and leaving just the urethral opening so you can still urinate.
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