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[grav_ity]

Seriously. I cried and had something of a panic attack. I am posting it here because if we get pissed off about racism in RPF Supernatural, we should be enraged beyond measure about this.

A Cornell surgeon does horrible things to little girls, all in the name of medicine.

And a follow-up article from Psychology Today.

(Note: anyone who brings up male circumcision right now gets banned. There is a time and a place for those discussions, and now is not it, and I am all out of tact right now.)

Comments

[colej55.livejournal.com]

ENRAGED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SPEECHLESS!

[beccatoria.livejournal.com]

WHAT THE EVER LOVING FUCKING WHAT NOW?!

They're disbarring this guy, right? I mean, this has got to be some sort of illegal, right? Because there are not words for how fucked up this is.

[to-conjure.livejournal.com]

How can...no. No. No. No.

I want to skin the parents of those girls for being so stupid and shallow.

[grav-ity.livejournal.com]

I am less inclined to blame the parents outright, because sometimes new parents freak in the face of medical jargon, and just agree to things. BUT OMG, I KNOW!

[karma-aster.livejournal.com]

No, I see this as being far worse. Female genital mutilation can make a woman have lifelong pain during sex, opens her up to some horrific infections, and is quite potentially deadly. Even in this instance, where infection and death are remote possibilities, there's still a loss of sensation and ability to enjoy sex, some serious potential for lifelong psychological scarring, and at the end of the day, it still seems to be all about controlling female sexuality.

And the "aftercare"? They may call it checkups, I call it pedophilia.

But, y'know, I'm one of those crazy feminists, so what do I know, right? (eyeroll)

[grav-ity.livejournal.com]

I'm still boggling over how he got away with it, except that every time I try to think about it, I start to hyperventilate.

(Um...did you mean "far worse than male circumcision"? Which is actually for purposes of hygiene and doesn't have any sexual or infectious afftereffects? You certainly get no arguments from me.)

[emmiere.livejournal.com]

WHAT THE HELL. I can't understand how this could be accepted. Well, I can and it's pissing me off, but seriously WHAT THE HELL?

*has no words*

[meresy.livejournal.com]

No.

Fuck. I hate the world.

[sabaceanbabe.livejournal.com]

what?