UK Protects Female Infants Against Circumcision

	posted by Nightmist on Monday August 20, @04:14PM from the news/circumcision dept.
	This story on Excite News details new UK guidelines for doctors who are being told they must stop parents from having their female children circumcised. There is no mention of male circumcision anywhere in the story, although male circumcision is obviously more widespread (and, as obviously, more widely accepted). I've always found it interesting that women refer to female circumcision as "genital mutilation" and male circumcision as a "medical procedure."

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circumcision (Score:1) by remarksman on Monday August 20, @06:44PM EST (#1) (User #241 Info) in modern western cultures, circumcision is a method for asserting dominance over, and instilling submission within, its members (pun intended) a modern culture practicing circumcision unilateral of gender means the collective wishes to subjugate, by brutality and fear, one of the genders in service of the other helpless, extremely impressionable beings who are thus intimidated and indoctrinated -- at eight days of age -- become manipulable as they mature, although to be sure, they also reflect back upon the society the agony and rage instilled into them the culture, however, can wash its hands of the entire matter, claiming "health concerns," and thus maintain the scapegoat in a double-bind which both enriches the society and provides a convenient whipping boy for collective guilt ray remark

Foreskin Murder (Score:1) by DanCurry on Tuesday August 21, @12:15AM EST (#2) (User #245 Info) I did a piece on MSN about Male Genital Mutilation. It was meant to be humorous in a thick debate about stem cell research. I think there are a few typos in there as well. Slate on MSN.com Dan Curry DanCurry.com

Equal treatment? (Score:1) by Andrew on Wednesday August 22, @08:30AM EST (#3) (User #186 Info) The version of this story I saw, "Doctors put on alert for girl 'butchery'" (in the London Times, linked on WorldNetDaily) is considerably longer, and does mention MGM: "Thomas Sankara, the late head of state of Burkino Faso [an African country where circumcision of both sexes is common], said: 'There is a clear difference in the care a man shows for his small sons who go to be circumcised and the care, or rather, the contempt and disregard he shows for his daughters handing them over to undergo a form of butchery.'" Gee, I wonder why this was left out of the U.S. version? Would it fit the feminist criterion of "equal treatment" if children of both sexes were treated with the same "care"? At least these enlightened "people of color" do treat both sexes much the same - they cut 'em up - in contrast with the grossly unequal situation in the United States, where girls are unfairly denied the tremendous health benefits of genital alteration. BTW, circumcision in these cultures (African & Islamic) is not done on infants, but at about age 6-9 for girls, puberty for boys. Andrew

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