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Originally Posted by Angela

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.

This explains either how little you know about Africa or how prejudiced you are about us, as i have noticed a lot of personalization of issues as far as most of your posts are concerned. Let me educate you a little bit; out of over 450 tribes that inhabit Africa only about 15 are known to prefer FGM that is Female Genital Mutilation to you. I happen not to condone this practice that limits a woman’s right to sexual advantages, my fathers tribe the ITESOTS do not practice FGM neither do my mother's people the LUOS nor my wife’s tribe the LUHYAS. So please when you choose to always try to make a fool out of me I think a little bit of research would help, you posts have never been friendly in all the threads i have posted in this forum I thus assume you don’t like my kind, why don’t you just shoot OBAMA and get it over with!