So true. I’ve been hearing so lot of good things out of that Kennedy cat lately. Did you know he wants to take the US to the Moon in our lifetime? What a time to be alive.

I’m confused here, because (correct me if I’m wrong) I’m pretty sure that there’s an important distinction between “female” and “woman,” i.e. the same distinction there is between “sex” and “gender.” Trans women are women, yes, but not biologically female. Similarly, “female genital mutilation” is the mutilation of a…

This. Isn’t. About. You.

Goddamn, beets, this is perfect. Thank you.

Literally nobody here is disagreeing with the point that circumcising babies’ penises is problematic at best, since babies are incapable of giving consent. What people are disagreeing with is your insistence that there is no difference between circumcising a penis and “FGM,” a term that includes clitoridectomy, not…

First of all, you are a male, with a penis. Who suffered male genital mutilation. Stop trying to colonize women’s issues. Second, you really can’t see how petty and childish and straight up ridiculous you are coming off by trying to change the focus onto your own issues? This is not a competition you know? The story…

People have been coming at me my entire life.

Yeah, no. I happen to believe mutilating a child’s genitals is horrific, no matter which sex you happen to be, but a tiny snip of foreskin is NOTHING compared to having your clitoris or labia cut off or sewn shut. NOTHING.

I do not believe Rebel Girl is tranfolx at this point.

I love your username and you seem like a great mom. <3

Honestly, you just read as thirsty for validation. You’re asserting something that is at best highly debatable (“The foreskin on my penis was removed when I was a child but because I identify as female that makes me a victim of FGM”) just so you can accuse people who disagree of denying your womanhood and call them…

I’m looking.

You may be a woman, but you are not female and do not have female genitals. Ergo, you cannot have had female genital mutilation.

You wrote: All suffer functional damage.

Lots of cases of FGM are less damaging? Bullshit. You’re a hateful person, seek help.

I’mthinking in the insufferable category you have us all beat in the terrible person category. So insufferable I wonder if you are an MRA troll.

Nah. You were a male when that happened. You saying it’s effectively FGM shows that you know it’s not.

The conversation about removing the foreskin is indeed an important one, but this is a conversation about mutilation of the vulva, clitoris, and labia, for the purposes of inhibiting a person’s sexual desire and agency. Removing the foreskin of the penis is not about preventing penis-havers from feeling or seeking…

I think you need more information before you rush to compare the two. Did the girls have their clitoral hood removed, OK, maybe you can compare. Did those girls have their clitoris removed? That’s the equivalent of cutting off a man’s penis. I understand you were mutilated, but the comparison could be potentially…

Did I ever say they weren’t? I specifically said biologically and publicly identifying as for a reason. And no I will not get out of here because you decided to come in here and derail an issue and make it about you. And if you can’t see how that bullshit “but what about circumsion” arises every single time FGM is…