LogFAQs > #884349372

I understand your point, but personally I'd be interested in hearing about whatever's going on in Italian politics as a breath of fresh air. I see enough Trump/Putin stuff online, to the point that I know more about American politics than I do about my local Australian politics, and even then there's a lot of bullshit happening over here that's frustrating to hear about. But this thing is happening in Italian politics? That's interesting. And to talk about Italian politics, you might have to talk about the culture of modern-day Italy and how it reacts to the politics of today. There's a wealth of interesting new info there that sounds interesting. That's just me, though.

I don't think the outcome of this topic was because people were unfamiliar with the topic, and so substituted the closest cultural practice in order to talk about it. The topic ended up like this because someone went "lol anteater" as a joke, and anti-circumcision people hit the thread to talk about the injustice of male genital mutilation and how insensitive and ignorant it was to dismiss the foreskin. They completely bypassed the subject of the thread to yell down at each other about their ongoing political squabble, because the title has "circumcision" in it. They don't care about female circumcision, because they want to argue about circumcision as a whole, and how dare boys get snipped without their permission as a baby! Completely ignoring that female circumcision involves the clitoris being removed, the labia being cut off and the vagina being sewn shut, with a woman's legs being bound together for weeks to facilitate healing. They don't recognise that, because they're blinded by the word "circumcision" and instantly think about the human rights violation that is a baby boy getting a bit of skin snipped of, rather than the human rights violation that is having one's pleasure receivers removed, as well as outwardly showing genitalia (most likely decried for being "obscene"), before having their crotch sewn together to preserve them for marriage.

Ignorance regarding female genital mutilation isn't an excuse to snipe back and forth about dicks and how unethical and horrible it is that penises are altered at birth. It's an opportunity to learn about a serious, disgusting cultural problem that causes much more unnecessary pain, as well as birth/conception issues for the recipient, on a much wider scale - all in the name of decency and purity for one's husband. But people used the thread to cry "what about me" and champion a cause that's barely in the same league. Circumcision is wrong, and mutilation? Sure. Taking out a healthy appendix is mutilation, especially if the recipient didn't ask for it - and the appendix is borderline useless. But female circumcision is in a league of its own. It's objectively worse than male circumcision. It's barbaric, and it leads to a lifetime of infection, birthing troubles and chronic pain in a way that male circumcision does not. And hijacking a thread about it to talk about anteater dicks and poor mutilated chrome-dome dongs is fucking disgraceful.
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