I don’t even have words for this. I am so, so sorry that happened to your sisters, and that you witnessed such a traumatic event. I can’t even imagine the horror and fear that you and your sisters went through. And I agree with you that genital mutilation, for both sexes, should be done away with entirely. I’m sending…
The men don’t even have to enforce it.
We definitely need more details about which parts of the genitalia are cut in order to find out how much indignation we should feel.
Once you know your daughter won’t get married if she isn’t cut, of course you do it. They do it because the people with the power - men - require it.
I would encourage you took look at the variations of female genital mutilation. The genital mutilation preformed on boys does reduce sensitivity and is painful. The genital multination preformed on girls can include sewing together the vaginal opening and cutting off the clitoris.
Incoming MRA whining about how male circumcision is so much worse in 3... 2... 1...
As a circumcised male who wouldn’t circumcise my sons, yes, I think it matters a great deal which is worse.
Nothing to do with religion? Get fucking serious, please. My god.
Start with your uncle’s . He’s a grown man allowing his spouse to tell him he “has” to hurt and estrange himself from the sister he grew up with. The only one truly allowing this to happen, is him.
This type of thing makes me furious. My mom’s brother isn’t “allowed” to talk to my mother without supervision and there was a period of time she thought she was texting him and was so happy! She was talking to her brother again! And then found out she was texting the bitch sister-in-law pretending to be him. (The…
I love how you assume I’m assuming anything. The author made a broad cultural statement. I was asking if it was true. One-on-one good business practices are not the same as introductory contact.
I’m with you. I’m in my 30's and was also caught off-guard by that sentence. Agree with other comments here that email is still preferable for business purposes. Have a website, make sure your contact info is on the website (and is accurate/current), list your services on your website, etc. Include all your updated…
The fucking younger generation can learn to use email for business communication. It’s still the standard most places.
Thank you! I read that part of the article and was thinking, “Wait, what?” Normally, I would just say, “Bullshit,” but I’m at that time of life where I have to admit I’m no longer a target demographic/tastemaker and it would behoove me to inquire further about such jarring cultural shifts. Glad to know I’m not TOTALLY…
Email is not obsolete for business purposes.
Yeah I don’t know about that part, I think most people for business are still using email a fair bit. They probably also use other things like text, and social media. But it’s not obsolete by far.
Yup. I ran into this with a group of friends a while back. We are spread out all over two countries so we made a small Facebook group to chat to each other in. We share everything. Really personal stuff. Then we found out that the one girl’s jealous husband had access to her Facebook account and was reading our group…
The letter writer puts this issue in the proper perspective, for me.