Saturday, June 03, 2006

Female Genital Mutilation

Two interesting observations in this article. Firstly, religious beliefs of men override human rights for women. Secondly, Sheik Badri really gets around when he can make a statement that Egyptian woman have bigger clitorises than other women - thus needing to have them 'cut back to normal size'. There are, of course, many more observations which could be made but who wants to fill an already well used brain with yet more male rhetoric about what god wants for women?

This religious claptrap backs up the desire of many inferior males to control and hurt women using (in this case) religious sanctions to do so. Very few women realise how many men are sexually nutty until they come up against a rapist, or a paedophile, or a voyeur, or a coprophiliac, or a sadist in one of his many forms.

The advocates of female genital mutilation (or infibulation) who hide behind religion and cite their god given right to inflict such cruelty on female children must be the craziest, and the most frightened of female sexuality of all those men who lack basic masculinity. That basic masculinity is the desire to mate with (and the confidence of being able to do so) a woman they are able to satisfy sexually. The male fear of another, better male cutting them out, underpins the whole female genital mutilation process. It is a 'well, I can't do anything about my own pathetic self so I'll make sure she doesn't know anything about it.'

Women don't suffer from penis envy - men do.