#anti-fgm

[lycandrophile]

Different anon. FGM is nearly the same to "bottom surgery". It's mutilation based on sex and genitals. The intent doesn't make it any less destructive or sad.

first of all, FGM is not at all nearly the same as bottom surgery, even just from a technical perspective. as many people in the replies of the last ask have pointed out, one difference is that bottom surgery involves the penis being either created from the clitoris or constructed on top of it, not removing it as with many forms of FGM.

but, for the sake of argument, let’s say they are similar surgeries on a technical level. do you really think it’s the kind of surgery that makes FGM bad? would you say that somebody who received a similar surgery for medical reasons was a victim of FGM?

what makes FGM “destructive and sad” is that:

it’s done to people who don’t want it.

it’s done to people who don’t actually know what’s being done to them or what the risks or consequences might be, so victims often find themselves living with complications for the rest of their lives that they never agreed to.

it has many potential harmful effects and no actual benefits.

gender affirming surgeries like bottom surgery don’t match any of those points. they’re:

performed only on people who actively want them and chose to have them done.

only ever done when the patient can give informed consent, meaning they know what the surgery entails and what the risks could be and have chosen to do it with that knowledge.

proven to have mental health benefits for the people who receive them, and are often considered medically necessary on that basis.

fundamentally, bottom surgery is an exercise of bodily autonomy while FGM is a violation of it. that’s what makes FGM so bad and makes the two so vitally different. mutilation is an act that causes serious harm without any true benefit; FGM fits that bill, bottom surgery doesn’t. saying the two are the same is like saying a medically performed abortion is the same as pushing a pregnant person down the stairs to cause a miscarriage: it focuses solely on the most literal understanding of what’s being done without any regard for the details or the impact on the people involved.

the problem with FGM is the fact that it’s being performed on people who can’t give informed consent and who will likely suffer from it while not gaining any benefits from it. if you actually care about victims of FGM, you should be upset about the violation of their bodies and lifelong suffering they’re subjected to, not the fact that it’s their genitals that are being altered.

[signedseal]

Choice feminism and anti trans discourse have led some libfems into this weird conclusion that all surgery is indeed affirming and good actually. I'm sorry that youre super wrong but you can support people getting top surgery and acknowledge that labiaplasty is an insane and normalized form of porn fueled FGM. There is no reason you need to cut the skin of your vulva off to look like a little girls or a porn star who has had the same surgery. It's not "empowering" even if you were empowered to pay for it and I'm not "policing what people do with their bodies" but can you be critical for one second and ask yourself when exactly did you get the idea to cut your lips off and how exactly it has Nothing to do with the expectation somebody else had on your body.

I'm sorry to pull the "close ur legs" card too but genuinely why are you even allowing people who can't handle seeing a vulva see and god forbid have sex with yours.

If we want to talk about empowering choice empower yourself with the choice to stop fucking pedophiles omg

[mpov]

I've blazed this post probably half a dozen times with no problem. Suddenly it gets rejected? I guess @staff suddenly supports genital mutilation of helpless children.

[demiurgeua]

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[thequeenofsastiel]

I appreciate most of this but I take exception to the notion that male circumcision isn't mutilation. It is.

Storyville - Defying the Cutting Season

Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) has been illegal in Tanzania since 1998. But every year thousands of families still plan to have their daughters cut, an ordeal that could cost them their lives. The ‘Cutting Season’ takes place during the December school holidays.

During this time hundreds of girls are saved from FGM by the police, the government and the work of the Safe House. It is run by Rhobi Samwelly, who was herself a victim of FGM, and now, not only does she valiantly run the safe house but she also works with the local police to rescue and protect girls at risk while arresting the parents and cutters.

But they have a tough and dangerous job and old customs die hard. Men believe that girls must be cut to reduce promiscuity and cut girls command twice the bride price in cows as uncut girls. Girls like Rosie, just 12 years old, have had to make the most difficult choices of their young lives - run away from home, not knowing if they will ever see their families again, or submit to female genital mutilation and child marriage.

These brave and courageous young girls are fighting against a tradition that goes back thousands of years. They are standing up for their human rights and fighting for change in their community.

The Safe House is the one safe place they can escape to.

[jobskenyaplace]

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[self-loving-vampire]

The new anti-trans executive order:

1- Defines 18 year-olds as children for the purposes of banning transition.

2- Defines transition as mutilation.

3- Falsely presents detransition as the norm to "justify" saving people from themselves.

4- Declares trans medicine in general (not just for minors) to be "junk science" and aims to produce a Cass-style politically-motivated review establishing trans people as confused, mentally ill, and frivolous (the recent military ban already uses language that labels trans people as inherently dishonest).

5- Treats "rapid onset gender dysphoria" like it is a valid concern.

6- Threatens to defund institutions that provide trans healthcare to people under 19.

7- Threatens to use anti-FGM laws against healthcare providers who facilitate transition (no age limit).

8- Seeks to use the FDA to declare trans healthcare fraudulent and facilitate lawsuits against doctors who provide it, including by the parents of the people receiving the care rather than the patients themselves.

While this will likely be challenged in courts, it could do a lot of damage (especially if providers just comply) and it is unlikely to stop at trans minors.

If you haven't already, consider stockpiling HRT and/or leaving the country.

[gendercriticalthinking]

My thoughts:

The main intent of this post is very eye-opening and true. While I think a lot of psychological analyses, including this one, tend to create meaning and complexity where there isn't any (to get an intellectual/detective/solving-a-puzzle "wow" factor), and a lot of "womb envy" analysis seems to be more about comforting and empowering women than accurately analyzing male motivations (most violent men aren't subconsciously* resenting the fact that women can give birth, they just like to hurt people), the overall message does have truth to it. Many, maybe even most, violent men use violence as a way to gain control/power. (But all of them do it because they like to cause suffering.)

My eyes rolled into the back of my skull upon reading this author mention the Columbine shooters played video games. (I can kind of give her a pass since her writing was published in 2004, since I absolutely support questioning new things and investigated them to see if they cause harm. Also I'm only calling this out just because I didn't see anyone else doing so.) I'm sorry but if video games cause/escalate violent urges to the point you just have to kill someone, most people should be dead by now. It is a multi-billion dollar industry. Countless women have played violent video games since their creation and yet we for some reason have never had a sudden uptick in female violent crime in the late 80's or the decades since. It's a male problem. Men who have violent urges come to video games, movies, television, hobbies, schools, malls, grocery stores, life in general, seeking a way to unleash their urges through what is otherwise benign. They come to these things already violent, and saying a piece of media (or clothing) was the/a reason they hurt people is to absolve them of the blame they deserve for their own actions. Again, it's just because they like to hurt people and have control over them. The hypothetical man who used to be pure and kind but got corrupted by an FPS game still would have become a murderer if he had watched a horror movie instead.

I'll close out the compliment sandwich by appreciating the teardown of (popular/organized) religion, and how clearly it's laid out that its invention was by and for men to make a system where they could gain and abuse power and control over others (women especially). Men would not and do not worship a female God because God is meant to be a surrogate for themselves.

*Incidentally, I realized this idea from "womb envy" actually contradicts a belief a lot of women who believe in "womb envy" also seem to hold (or at least flirt with): that men are biologically inferior (usually the reason cited is because of their role for reproduction, which one Google search for how emu parents act should disprove) to the point they're mentally incapable of deep/complex/intellectual/etc thought. If men are so animalistic they can't do anything besides feel carnal/animalistic emotions, then they also can't have subconscious desires, because they wouldn't have a subconscious. And if you instead/then believe "womb envy" is a conscious desire that they just hide from us then the fact that they know to hide it (and are decent enough at it for "womb envy" to be a Feminist Iceberg Tier 4 Concept most people haven't heard of despite its supposed prevalence in causing male behavior) is, again, not something a stupid, purely animalistic being would be able to do well, or possibly at all.

having a good day then thinking about this one quote about no woman ever comparing herself to god after creating life by giving birth but every boy with a gun is a god in his own eyes because he has the power to choose who lives or dies and he uses it to take and destroy lives. coughing up blood right now. i need to be hospitalized.

[wingsdippedingold]

I’m like 95% sure that the modern/non-magical version of ACOTAR would be one of those fuckass mafia dark romances

The Archerons are American, and the fae are all from the Uk. Instead of fae courts in Prythian, it’s mafia faction thingies on Britain that all have a loose alliance. Hybern is the foreign mafia (Ireland, surprise, surprise it’s SJM and her anti-Irish sentiment)

The entire plot tracks if you just tweak minor things to make up for the setting and no magic

Instead of visions of Feyre, Rhysand saw headlines of the Archerons when they lost their money when Feyre was a child (yes he is still too old for her in this version, it’s a fucking mafia romance what did you expect)

Feyre still kills Andras causing Tamlin to come investigate and find her, taking her to Britain with him

The whole UTM stuff still works if you just stick it in the night life and random warehouses or night club basements idk

the fae wine is literally just roofies

all the trials are just Feyre breaking through Amarantha’s operation location ig

Rhysand is still “the most powerful mafia head” ig but no one understands how because his mafia is seemingly the least lucrative and is just drug shipments or smth

Wing clipping likely turns into some sort of branding, I would hesitate from actual fgm because of the time and setting but idk

I suppose Illyrians are Scottish?

many of the working members of Rhysand’s mafia are underpaid and with poor conditions but they can’t really leave cause it’s yk, a mafia. The rich members don’t actually do anything, they just benefit from everyone else

do not ask me for the equivalent of Nesta and Elain getting thrown in the cauldron, I do not want to think about it

Feyre still gets mad at Tamlin for explaining that there’s not exactly a female equivalent of his position because he’s literally just the leader and because mafias are inherently patriarchal

He still keeps her in a house, because she keeps trying to join him in his dangerous night plans with random thugs, where she has a panic attack

His outbursts translate as panic attacks. I don’t consider his canon ones to be the same as a man throwing a glass or smth, because that’s still a choice, but the magic just reflected how Tamlin was feeling without him intentionally doing anything, so I leave that open

Mafias are historically male led, but feminist king Rhysand gave Feyre a seat at the table and a title despite her not knowing anything about mafias or the interworkinfs of Rhysand’s mafia

all the character tropes and the rest of the plot still work

Mor and Eris still had an arranged marriage, she was still abused by her dad, she still used Cassian, etc.

the whole “other daemati” killing Winter children bs still works

Nesta was still considered an alcoholic for going to less luxurious night clubs ig and was still locked up in some random property

Cassian is literally her physical trainer

he shoots guns

they’re really big because he’s very secure

azriel does actual espionage

Do I need to write this fic???

[wiki-fight]

Let's just submit the 2 most recent on my Wikipedia mobile app...

Sigmund Freud and FGM-148 Javelin Anti-Tank Missile.

[big-mayo-official]

So I found a strange little phenomenon! The following post would not allow me to reblog, queue, or schedule it:

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@self-loving-vampire The new anti-trans executive order:

1- Defines 18 year-olds as children for the purposes of banning transition.

2- Defines transition as mutilation.

3- Falsely presents detransition as the norm to "justify" saving people from themselves.

4- Declares trans medicine in general (not just for minors) to be "junk science" and aims to produce a Cass-style politically-motivated review establishing trans people as confused, mentally ill, and frivolous (the recent military ban already uses language that labels trans people as inherently dishonest).

5- Treats "rapid onset gender dysphoria" like it is a valid concern. 6- Threatens to defund institutions that provide trans healthcare to people under 19.

7- Threatens to use anti-FGM laws against healthcare providers who facilitate transition (no age limit).

8- Seeks to use the FDA to declare trans healthcare fraudulent and facilitate lawsuits against doctors who provide it, including by the parents of the people receiving the care rather than the patients themselves.While this will likely be challenged in courts, it could do a lot of damage (especially if providers just comply) and it is unlikely to stop at trans minors.If you haven't already, consider stockpiling HRT and/or leaving the country.

@simpledontmeanpeachy

Take some deep breaths (said with so much compassion).Yes, this is terrifying. That is probably one of the primary aims. To scare trans and gnc folks into hiding (which is a valid response. Do what you need to do to stay safe.) To scare medical providers enough that they stop offering gender-affirming care.

One of the suggested responses to authoritarianism is: Do not comply in advance (while taking realistic measures to keep yourself safe in the face of actionable threat). Please, my trans and gnc siblings, don’t let this rob you of your joy. Each of you is far too precious for that. That’s what they want. They want you afraid and miserable and hiding and being less of a nuisance.

Be a nuisance. By existing joyfully. (As long as, and I can’t stress this enough, you can do so with physical safety and/or within your own risk tolerance windows.)Please, my friends who are medical providers and therapists: now is not the time to stop providing care to a group of vulnerable folks who are being openly persecuted. Please continue to support them by continuing to do what you can to increase access to gender-affirming care. DO NOT COMPLY with this EO. He is not a dictator, and this is not a democratically enacted piece of legislation. And if it becomes one, my plea doesn’t change.

Resist.

They will weaponize your fear. That fear is normal and understandable; there are real threats. Just don’t let fear that rises in response to these words paralyze you. Let it motivate you to do what you can in your corner of the world to resist the creep of fascism.

And never forget, in what will undoubtedly be more of this nonsense over the next few years, that you have every right to exist however you see fit, you are valuable just as you are, and you are loved. The world needs you, just as you are.

@Avatarso-i-did-this-thing

Two things to do right now:

1) Exist out of joy and exist out of spite.

2) Pressure your healthcare provider not to comply in advance. This action is not implemented yet.

[radfemsiren]

Where/how did you find that sexist islam hadith? i keep getting pressured that if i "just researched" i would revert and i want to show exactly why i won't

I was told this Hadith by word of mouth as a child. Here is the original and translated, it’s a sahih Hadith, which means it’s authentic: Narrated Ibn 'Abbas:

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: "I was shown the Hell-fire and that the majority of its dwellers were women who were ungrateful." It was asked, "Do they disbelieve in Allah?" (or are they ungrateful to Allah?) He replied, "They are ungrateful to their husbands and are ungrateful for the favors and the good (charitable deeds) done to them. If you have always been good (benevolent) to one of them and then she sees something in you (not of her liking), she will say, 'I have never received any good from you."

حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ مَسْلَمَةَ، عَنْ مَالِكٍ، عَنْ زَيْدِ بْنِ أَسْلَمَ، عَنْ عَطَاءِ بْنِ يَسَارٍ، عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ، قَالَ قَالَ النَّبِيُّ صلى الله عليه وسلم:

‏"‏ أُرِيتُ النَّارَ فَإِذَا أَكْثَرُ أَ��ْلِهَا النِّسَاءُ يَكْفُرْنَ ‏"‏‏.‏ قِيلَ أَيَكْفُرْنَ بِاللَّهِ قَالَ ‏"‏ يَكْفُرْنَ الْعَشِيرَ، وَيَكْفُرْنَ الإِحْسَانَ، لَوْ أَحْسَنْتَ إِلَى إِحْدَاهُنَّ الدَّهْرَ ثُمَّ رَأَتْ مِنْكَ شَيْئًا قَالَتْ مَا رَأَيْتُ مِنْكَ خَيْرًا قَطُّ ‏"‏‏.‏

Sahih al-Bukhari 29

Honestly when it comes to debating Muslims, it’s impossible to win. I’ve seen Muslims defend this Hadith saying it’s about the women of jahiliyah, or pagan times before Islam … which still doesn’t make sense because the men of jahiliyah were committing infanticide against their daughters regularly. They were much worse than their women. They also excuse this Hadith saying that it’s just because women have a slightly higher population than men. I’ve heard that one many times. The prophet literally says the reason why in this Hadith, they don’t listen to reason!

If you must debate, this is a good Hadith to bring up, but there’s quite a few mentioning the hell full of women issue, so it might get muddy. Try to stick to the topic of Aisha. It is the core, root problem of why Islam is a threat to women. And simply replying, “That’s still pedophilia.” Works for every argument they bring up.

I’m actually working on a short series explaining the basics of Islams misogyny and it will cover a few topics, like the awrah/hijab law, sex slavery, Aisha, unequal inheritance, unequal eye witness testimony, marital rape, etc! So that’s coming within the week, keep an eye out for that! It will be in my anti-Islam tag :) It’s good to call out misogyny from other cultures too, but we have to be educated and know the difference between oppressive cultural practices (FGM) and oppressive religious practices (hijab laws)

[magnetothemagnificent]

Do you think the sudden outcry against circumcision is rooted in antisemitism? I feel like it is... every person i know who has been circumcised has stated its never posed an issue for them in their life, they've never even thought of it. And I've noticed a lot of these groups are funded by Christian groups, and often even compare circumcision to female genital mutilation, which is in no way ever comparable. I've been trying to help people consider this child be true, but they always say I'm just trying to center Jewish issues too much in an issue that's unrelated.

Oh it's most definitely rooted in antisemitism (also Islamophobia in modern tomes, but anti-circumcision rhetoric wielded against Jews predates Islam). The ancient Greeks and Romans considered circumcised penises to be inferior, and numerous occupiers of Judea placed bans on circumcision to oppress the Jewish people. I wouldn't call the "outcry against circumcision" is sudden at all- it goes back for millennia.

While many cultures practice circumcision, in Western society, circumcision is most associated with Jews. The idea of circumcision as being uniquely barbaric is tied to blood libel which paints Jews as bloodthirsty child molesters and abusers. It is no coincidence that most anti-circumcision groups are funded by Christians- Christianity has demonized circumcision ever since it broke away from Judaism.

Circumcision doesn't really cause significant changes in penis sensation or functionality, and contrary to popular belief, Jews don't circumcise for any aesthetic or sexual reason (like these anti-circumcision "activists" like to claim)- it's purely because it's what G-d commanded us to and because it's our mark of our covenant with Him. And it's absolutely a disservice to victims of FGM to compare circumcision to it.

Anti-circumcision rhetoric cannot be separated from antisemitism.

[demiurgeua]

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[rapeculturerealities]

‘Over my dead body’, say Gambian mothers amid efforts to lift FGM ban | FGM | Al Jazeera

In  2015, the Gambian parliament took the historic step to pass the Women’s (Amendment) Act of 2015, which criminalised FGM and made it punishable by up to three years in prison – a significant shift after years of advocacy.

But recently, on March 18, politicians voted 42 to 4 to advance a controversial new bill which would repeal the landmark FGM ban if it passes following further consultation and expert opinion from specialised government ministries.