Sexual mutilation is not only legal in the U.S. it's avidly encouraged, and by the Left, so what's the problem here? It's also fashionable to encourage Sharia Law and courts, so why is it bad when some other 'culture' wants to practice their atavistic savagery as well? Aren't we supposed to be 'embracing Diversity' and destroying the Evul Xian oppressors' influence over our lives? Pogo is standing up in support of sexual mutilation, so should all the other sociopaths on the Left.
It's been outlawed in the US since 1996 (I think).
No, it hasn't; Bruce Jenner begs to differ. It's quite the new 'edgy' fashion these days, with parents avidly encouraging their own children to let them surgically mutilate them. Very trendy and cool.
Cult of Ignorance speaks yet again. Be still my heart.
Genital mutilation as a social function has nothing to do with either altering one's gender
OR personal choice, Dipweed. The
elders do it TO the victim, as a rite of passage, a coming-of-age ritual, and one in which the kids involved really are not into it anyway; they're forced.
Every culture has its symbolic rites of passage, whether voluntary or involuntary, whether it involves actual mutilation or just symbolism.. In ours for instance girls start wearing fingernail polish, which is traditionally red, the color of blood, in order to signify "I'm menstruating".
We should add at this point that what keeps abominations like FGM and circumcision and penile subincision going in the first place is the same level of profound wilful ignorance that you just splooged all over this board. Like you, they didn't bother to stop and think about it either. They take the path of least intellectual resistance and simply go on doing it because "this is what we've always done". Much the same as you do with your failure to read.