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Originally Posted by newsbone  You have such strong convictions as a result of social upbringing about the same and this is natural. Had you grown up in a culture that allow it you would not have had such strong words to express what your parents warned you about while you were young. Dont do this, dont do that, you are still a young girl! |
Speaking of Africa, there is a cultural imperative -- a "rightness" -- for young girls to have their clitorises sliced off and their vaginas sewn nearly shut, causing excruciating lifetime pain, trauma, and eliminating sexual pleasure, all for the "good" of the assurance of female faithfulness and desirability as a wife.
And I understand from many women who have experienced this that they had, at the time the "surgery" was being performed, a sense of very extreme wrongness that could not be reconciled with any rightness being perpetrated on their young bodies. Many of those young girls grow up to be adult women who, in turn, perform the surgery on their own daughters. Part of that is surely cultural influence, and I'm pretty sure that even more of it is old stored-up negative emotion, being expressed in this brutal, and I feel, very inappropriate way.
Again, I'm glad to be part of your problem of "societal influence" that prefers to educate and influence tendency towards freedom from what I see as oppression, although I recognize you might not see it as such. So be it.
It's okay with me that you don't agree with my views on this subject. Just sharing my strong preferences, since you asked.
