In a global first, Gambia could reverse its ban on female genital cutting
In a global first, Gambia could reverse its ban on female genital cutting
The West African nation of Gambia could become the first country in the world to reverse a ban on female genital cutting.
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Backwards. This would be going backwards. We shouldn't mutilate babies.
I'll also note for anyone who might be unaware that FGM is far worse than circumcision (which should ALSO be banned at childhood imo). FGM takes off a LOT more, it's a much more extreme procedure
I hear this often, and I fail to understand why anyone would need to defend male circumcision in the first place. Why must we continue to perform male circumcision and ban female circumcision? Couldn't both just be banned?
religious weirdos and lots of "im circumcised so its weird to not be"
They should both 100% be banned, but male circumcision has a lot of weirdos defending it for some reason
Genital mutilation is genital mutilation.
It’s fucked up, wrong, and should be criminal unless the receiving individual requests and consents to it.
Full stop.
Even if they're both wrong, it's worth mentioning. It's much more common for people to have experience with one than the other. If you think "oh, it's just like circumcision so it isn't that bad" then you're getting the wrong idea.
While that's true, one is still worse than the other.
Hey, how about we stop making one baby mutilation better or worse than the other. It’s fucking wrong, wrong to do it, wrong to justify it, wrong to downplay one over the other or at all, and wrong to compare them. Full stop. Just don’t. They’re both terrible.
Yeah but one is far far more terrible than the other.
No it isn’t. Stop it. They’re both fucking evil.
Do some research. FGM is objectively more brutal
What's your point? Other than one should be banned instead of/before the other? Because that's all I can glean from why you, or anyone else, would bother mentioning it.
Not to mention there’s nothing in the thread before the guy began making his argument that FGM is worse than male circumcision, about what is ‘better or worse’. The guy jumps out of no where to make the argument very specifically and ridiculously to downplay one over the other. They’re terrible. They’re barbaric. And they should stop, and arguing ‘one is worse than the other’ absolutely downplays the barbarism of the practice in general.
Yes it is, and yes they are
FGM can vary between the literal cutting off of the clitoris or just the labia, the latter would be more comparable to circumcision. And yes, both practices should be banned unless there's a medical reason for it. Anything else is just plastic surgery and should be decided by the then adult person.
Isn’t it removing the clitoris? It does seem much worse than foreskin but tbf that’s an unscientific opinion I’m holding.
Removing the clitoris, the hood, the major/minor labia, and/or sometimes basically sewing it shut
What the fuck that's horrifying.
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