American of Egyptian descent here. FGM is incredibly widespread in Egypt, with some 91% of women, almost all Muslim, having undergone the practice. It's more of a religious practice than a cultural one, as the remaining nearly 10% who aren't subjected to it are almost all Coptic Christian women.

Or the people hijacking the thread to discuss male circumcision.

Cue the cultural relativists showing up swinging out of the woodwork. :)

Oh my gosh, I would so watch Lupita Nyong'o as a Jedi.

I love how people who sexually abuse women are always the only ones concerned about the "real victims" of abuse. Treating me as a criminal would really dilute the understanding of the word criminal, you guys, because I've thought about it and I really don't want to be considered a criminal.

Regarding the title of the article: Not really. That honor belongs to /r/candidfashionpolice, which coincidentally popped up right after /r/creepshots was shut down.

He's a pompous, disrespectful blowhard who countenances spying and bullies guests. She a racist shit-stirrer who thinks she's advancing feminism by trolling and throwing other women she doesn't like under the bus, and then asking for dudebro points for being so "edgy" and "an equal opportunity offender". So I come…

Disassociation. Google it.

The clinical term for what this woman experienced is "peritraumatic dissociation". The non-clinical term for the attitude expressed by your comments is "sexist assholery".

you do not know what you would do in such a situation, and what you think you would do is irrelevant, because she is not you, and this is not about you.

Not sure if you're trolling.

Maria Bamford! All day, every day, funniest person I can think of, Maria Bamford:

THAT'S NOT WHAT KHAL DROGO DOES IN THE BOOK

Because feeding your child isn't considered immodest.

Thank you :]

The spread of Islam, and Arabic, did not bring the written language to them. It was already there to begin with(they have their own language, and written system). The main reason why we know so little is due to the lack of interest and racial bias that existed in the field of history. It is not till the 70s that the…

Sub-Sahara African empires did have written languages just like any other. The Mali Empire was known for its high quality manuscripts, and the city of Tinbuktu was a major learning center. Even as south as the Kongo and its Kingdom that rose had establish relations with Europe*. Not to mention the Christian Ethiopia.…

It saddens me that the only thing I was taught about African history in school was basically, "It's where Egypt is (but its empire succumbed to the Greeks and Romans, whom we're going to spend the next forever talking about and mythologizing) and where slaves came from (which we're not going to talk about beyond the…

China is not doing anything new. They are just the new colonial overlords.