Not directly; they are responsible personally for their sin. However, if you refused to acknowledge that the Catholic church had a problem, or you were reluctant to discuss ways the church could protect the vulnerable and prevent this happening again, then it would make me wonder what your motivation was.

Scientology is really not comparable to Islam, or any other established faith with centuries of history and millions upon millions of followers.

I have not seen anywhere where the airline has said that this guy was not wrong to resist.

You have it exactly wrong.

I feel like the lesson here is that reading comprehension is not your strength.

No, a cis woman came in and sprayed her privilege all over this article [...] “Cutting of parts of dicks is totally cool guys”. [...] But she wanted second wave brownie points, so here we are. Yay.

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…

As another trans woman who was circumcised at birth and not thrilled that it still goes on, you really need to cut this bullshit out. Even if you sincerely believe that a circumcision is comparable to a clitoredectomy (lol) I can guarantee you that all you’re doing right now is pissing off would-be allies and giving…

You brought up penile circumcision on an FGM post in the first place. You did the exact same thing that MRAs do. I realize you did it for entirely different reasons — as I wrote, your experience is important and valid — but it is NOT this. You are a woman who experienced penile circumcision and that is not what is…

I haven’t seen any comment saying circumcision is “no big deal.” I’ve seen comments saying they aren’t the same, which they aren’t. They are radically different medical procedures with drastically different intentions and end results. The only people being silenced are the poor girls who undergo this procedure because…

No, amputating a girl’s labia isn’t “kinda close” to a male circumcision, an arguably outdated but still minor procedure developed by men to reduce men’s vulnerability to STDs and skin diseases prior to antibiotics and modern hygiene. What a disgusting thing to say. Own your privilege as someone assigned male at birth…

I am 100% against circumcision and it is horrifying to watch but it is not at all similar to removing the labia and hood. Neither in the resulting level of mutilation/damage done or how involved the procedure would be. It is not a contest but it is also not equivalent and needs to stop being brought up whenever FGM is…

Circumcision doesn’t have anything to do with this. There is absolutely no reason why women can’t have a fucking conversation without being drowned out by men. I am so tired of it that I honestly don’t know what to do.

I teach girls who’ve had the procedure done on them. Some of them plan to have it done on their daughters, even if they have to leave the country briefly to do it. When I first saw this headline, my honest reaction was, “at least a REAL doctor was doing it.” An alternative (some old lady in a hut with a boning knife)…

Has this been covered yet? I’m surprised. This was great.

BC fails. You can be super responsible and still end up pregnant. It is a myth that women, who regard our bodies very carefully, don’t think about prevention because we have access to abortion. Maybe ask a woman how she actually goes about life before you make stupid assumptions about how responsible we are.

As a formerly large person (400+ lbs), flying was not comfortable for me or the person sitting next to me. I had to use the seat belt extender, and usually put the chair arm up. I felt horrible for the person next to me. Most of the time when we flew, we would buy 3 tickets for 2 of us (my wife was large too).

So a dude with more money than most people see in their lives chose to take advantage of economically-disadvantaged individuals for the sake of some anti-Semitic “humor,” and is now surprised that there are consequences that go with that kind of behavior.

Got it.

Having read some of the comments on the previous article…

I love that President Obama handed off the presidency with one of these: