Especially not ever those.

re: the first point, by definition a child having this done to her has no agency over the practice. Her mother or aunt or something might theoretically have agency, but it's also very possible that they don't, or that their agency is so severely curtailed as to be meaningless. No doubt there's a complex and troubled…

I get where you're coming from, and I think a lot of post-colonial feminists would agree. But the term DOES come from African people, and it's not wrong for westerners to use it in alliance.

I agree!! When girls and women are so scared and hurt that they run from their village home, risking death and banishment, I think we should listen and help them. They are rejecting something that might be part of their current village traditions, but they are seeking to change them. They are trying to reduce their…

When you look at the root cause of why they're done and who is doing them, I don't see how that would benefit either cause. I think you just want to derail the conversation and make it about you/your cause. This, right now and right here, is not about you.

I was waiting for a post like this to show up. Apologists FTW. You can give a blanket condemnation of a practice that reduces women to sexual parts and chattel and will never, ever be anything but a practice based on a denigration of women and the feminine and unbridled misogyny, but still realize that a blanket…

You're right. We must be sensitive to the culture of butchering women to keep them pure. I'm sure a lot of people in Somalia are reading this right now.

Oh yes. Those shrill harpies using strong language about unnecessary procedures performed by non-medical professionals which regularly kill and maim women.

Please do not mention circumcision and genital mutilation in the same sentence to indicate any similarity. Mutilation is the absolute correct word and circumcision is NOTHING LIKE IT.

When was porn taken off the feminist table as an issue? I don't get what's so empowering about 95% of the stuff on there. Watch it as an unbiased observer and you'll see that women get a shitty deal (often literally��)

It looks like our brains/head sizes evolved before our pelvises could evolve to accommodate them.

I would assume there are toilets and sinks. It wasn't clear in the article if they use hot air hand dryers or paper towel hand dryers.

I'm not going to respond to the person in the gray discussing this very thing, but I really hate, resent, and want to severely hurt people, especially men, who tauntingly say things like "say goodbye to your awesome body" to women who discuss having kids. Or when guys do "bro talk" about how a woman's body will be…

Terrified. Hence, my decision to adopt. No muss, no fuss, no torn vajayjays. I do mourn the fact that I wouldn't get to know what it was like to be pregnant. But at the end of the day, I'm okay with passing on all that. Plus I'm terrified that my depression, anxiety and OCD will skyrocket post-birth, and I really…

Is anyone else horrifically scared of pregnancy and childbirth? I read about all the things that happen to your body before, during, and after, and it's one of the significant reasons that have determined why I don't want kids.

You have a sickness inside you. Get help.

What if I didn't have any of these posters?!? Where do I belong?!

Wow. The strength, anger, and steely determination in that picture is just... what's the German word for beautiful-powerful-intimidating-inspiring?

If you didn't physically start the fight or directly and unequivocally threaten physical violence, then legally you are not the aggressor for self-defense purposes, no matter how obnoxious or offensive you behave. That is a pretty solid legal principle, and there are valid policy reasons for that interpretation of the…

Zimmerman allegedly started abusing his cousin when she was six years old, not ten years old - he was ten years old at the time, and the abuse (allegedly) went on for ten years until he was 20 and she was 16.