No, I'm not being facetious apologizing to the Scottish people. I'm sorry that I used their country and culture as an example in a hypothetical situation to show why your argument is bizarre.

It's not "imperialist" to care about the lives of people in other countries.

"But you guys! Murder is a long-standing cultural tradition among the Scottish! It's simply one of many manifestations of a complex unified culture, and we can't decry it as bad and try to work to stop it without changing the culture as a whole, which obviously is a bad thing because making sure that the culture…

I feel perfectly okay criticizing female genital mutilation, regardless of which culture happens to practice it.

There are health risks to this whole practice: improper sanitation, not being able to fully clean menstrual cloths in order to avoid later infections, oh, AND BEING FORCED TO CLUMP UP IN TINY SHACKS WITHOUT ELECTRICITY AND RUN THE RISK OF RAPE AND SNAKE BITE. But you go on, defending "traditions" that are just more…

Any article about the deplorable treatment of women in the third world quickly gets hijacked by a combination of apologists for worthless cultures shouting UR RACIST FOR TALKING ABOUT FACTS!!!! and narcissists who take, e.g., a story about gang-rape in India as an opportunity to talk about how one time they saw a man…

I would love to see more articles like this on Jezebel. Thank you.

" But while the debate gets caught up in the intricacies of cultural sensitivity, savior complexes, and neocolonial infiltration of ideologies, doing the right thing is not a colonial concept"

Seriously, how can we in the US somehow think we're superior to someone who excises a baby's genitals with a sharpened can lid when I might have been able to blow my load in eight seconds instead of fourteen?

Or the people hijacking the thread to discuss male circumcision.

Then I'll go ahead and say a great big "Fuck You!" to them in advance.

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

DAMMIT, MISSOURI. CAN'T WE GO ONE FUCKING WEEK WITHOUT SOME FRESH NEW HELLHOLE OF A NEWS STORY?????

It is not OK unless you are in the craziest place ever to exist! I hope in my heart this is the most horrible thing I ever hear for the rest of my life. And his wife helped? WTF was she thinking? I've tried to be anti-death penalty but when hearing something like this I find myself faltering.

I know! The wiggle = the squeeeeeee!

Just when I think there can't possibly be a joke that makes me laugh on this thread, bam! There's cassie.

Maybe they got lost trying to navigate their way through the new commenting system.

Oh, I wholeheartedly agree. It may be naive of me, but I'm hoping it's in a jungle somewhere in the Malay peninsula, if only for potential survivors to have a fighting chance.

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