Brilliant breakdown of the MGC vs. FGC arguments

[Papai]

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http://www.adriancolesberry.com/life/?p=662

I’ll give the simple reason that I don’t give female circumcision anywhere near equal time to male circumcision in my writing: Female circumcision is not a problem where I live. It does not happen in my city, in my state, in my county, within my religion. I do not have a friend or an acquaintance who I might advise to leave their daughter intact after her birth. All the girls will be intact. I cannot write to my congresswoman or man expressing my opposition to the practice. (Well, I guess I could but it might confuse them since it’s already against the law.) I will never have the opportunity to vote for an anti-female-circumcision politician; they are none of them for it.

In contrast, I live within a miles of several hospitals where hundreds of infant boys are being circumcised every day. I can write a useful letter to my congresswoman or man to express my opinion about the practice. I can and have talked to expecting friends about the decision to circumcise their sons. I can sign petitions to my own government, and so can you, here. Even for someone who wholeheartedly believes that female circumcision is 100 times, 1000 times, 10,000 times worse than male circumcision, there is not a mathematics perverse enough to make the problem of female circumcision in America worse than the problem of male circumcision in America. We only have the one problem here.

[Claire and Boys]

I was just coming here to post this. Brilliant.