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Katrina Biggs's avatar

What, indeed, is the difference, except that some girls are forced into getting their bodies mutilated, and some girls are groomed into it.

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Grace Under Fire's avatar

Why do they bow to gender bullies? Because they are afraid. Women can offer all the logic, scientific and moral jusitification they like, but intimidation works.

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Go Lucy Go's avatar

Lucy, your concluding sentence is so impactful. It shook me to the bone. This article poses great questions that this new ideology has not come close to addressing. Why have women of all races, social and education levels, been left out?

Thank you for speaking up!

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Sad_Mom's avatar

Also, the difference is tribes in Africa vs. enlightened, progressive, on-the-right-side-of-history Westerners.

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Lucy Leader's avatar

In the end, the damage is the same. Bodies are evolutionarily designed to work and cutting bits off of them for cosmetic or ideological purposes have the same results.

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