Should we start cutting off breast buds of infant girls? To prevent cancer? Without anesthesia?
Or cutting little girls genitals to prevent STD’s, odors, and infections? Without anesthesia?
It’s really no use to compare Female Genital Mutilation to Male because even if it was just a nick or a snip of the labia (which is much less destructive than male circumcision) with anesthesia in a sterile hospital with skilled surgeons…people would still protest it and call it mutilation and human rights violation. It’s really not about what’s more barbaric, or preventative medicine. It’s about cultural conditioning and sexism. One sex has legal rights to protect them from genital cutting while the other does not. One sex is seen as being born perfect, the other is not. One sex is seen as diseased dirty and a sexual health hazard in need of surgical amputation, the other is seen as cleaner and easily treatable with antibiotics. One is unable to be trusted to clean themselves properly needing parental and medical intervention, the other is perfectly capable and any obsession with someone else cleaning her is seen as sexually inappropriate.
Americans have no right to condemn female genital mutilation in other countries until it stops mutilating it’s men at birth.
