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Female genital tidying is racist and evil, no mention of the far more widespread male version

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April 22, 2012

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http://www.metro.co.uk/news/896903-uk-medics-filmed-offering-to-perform-female-genital-mutilation

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Title	Female genital tidying is racist and evil, no mention of the far more widespread male version
Author	[deleted]
Upvotes	15
Comments	21
Date	April 22, 2012 4:25 PM UTC (14 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
Original Link	https://old.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/smqzg/female_genital_tidying_is_racist_and_evil_no/
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[–]significantshrinkage 5 points6 points7 points 14 years ago* (10 children) | Copy Link

If you make FGM legal then all that will happen is that FGM will get banned again. Women are already victimized to insane degrees and all that does is provide them special protections (VAWA e.g.), further entrench their victim status and give radfems a valid reason to lobby their misandrist laws. Men simply can't team up with women on these issues. Just look at rape as an example or domestic violence, which happens almost equally between the sexes. Women get beaten up, men go to prison. Men get beaten up, men go to prison. The only solution is that the men's rights movement gets stronger and powerful enough to change laws and it's not going to happen if the strategy for achieving it is misogyny.

Your comments are pretty good and I mostly agree with you, but not this time.

EDIT: Furthermore, your post just reminds me of so many arguments I've had with radfems, who think fighting sexism means applying sexism towards men.

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Have fun telling the girls who will be genitally mutilated that they were just being used in a political play.

Have fun telling millions of boys who have already been genitally mutilated that they were because we didn't make a political play.

When one person is treated better than another, we should strive to bring the disadvantaged party up, not bring the advantaged party down, and we should never, ever move backwards on human rights.

Thats a matter of perspective, think of it like this, a Government will ONLY spend 200 million on helping victims of domestic violence there is no way to increase this budget it is set in stone, at current women get 160 million even though they are only 50% of victims, men get only 40 million, neither number is sufficient to address all the concerns of both groups (even if women got all 200 million it wouldn't be enough) so what are we to do other than split it down the middle and give each 100 million, that (Shockingly!) means that women will end up losing 60 million from their budget, but it's equality.

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