Lacey Missaghian
Weekly Participation: November 24th 2014
For this weeks interview the discussion was focused around the question of, Is female genital mutilation and male circumcision a humans' right abuse? After taking some time to understand how one could even relate female genitalia mutilation to male circumcision we came to the conclusion that we ourselves have a biased opinion on the subject. Male circumcision seems so normal in our culture that we don't even think twice about it where female genitalia mutilation, well I think speaks for itself. We do have to keep in mind that to some people female genitalia mutilation is done to preserve a woman's purity. After reading the story in our books about the Sudanese girl we both realized that though it seems so obviously horrifying and cruel that the mothers motives weren't to hurt her but to keep her clean. Being a mother myself I can completely understand wanting the best for your baby even if it hurts. I'm just so grateful that I live in the society I live in and I am educated to the degree that I can question and think rationally before performing life changing procedures such as that.
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