A long time ago, people referred to "circumcision" for men and women. For men, this was virtually always removing the foreskin - for women, this varied, and could be less, similar or more.
When a single word is used for something, its hard to justify stopping it for women but not men.
The term "Female Genital Mutilation" was introduced as a method of ending female circumcision but not male.
Once the term "mutilation" had been created, you could easily justify combating only "mutilation". What are you against? Mutilation, obviously? What about Circumcision? Well, that's different.
By distinguishing between male and female circumcision, it very easily allowed and facilitated focus solely on female circumcision - despite the cases where female circumcision is less invasive.
This wasn't a random development in language - it was a concerted effort to change the term for female circumcision into something more brutal-sounding, to facilitate gender-exclusive protection of women only. A conscious, sexist effort.
Hence why we should simply reverse it. Refer to male and female circumcision again.
If you want to be more edgy, you could always refer to Male Genital Mutilation.
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I refer to both as genital mutilation. I support calling it female genital mutilation but I also call it male genital mutilation.
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FGM doesn't romove any skin. It's all about cutting parts of the genitalia and sewing it back togrther. The whole whole point of FGM is to cause pain during sex so that the woman won't have sex unless she wants kids. Male circumcision isn't about causing pain during sex and has some benifits to it. FGM has no benifits
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Stop spreading disinformation. It harms people and changes you into a different person who deserves bad things happening to you.
My post is correct. Read the link.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11930-019-00198-8
"Pricking is here defined as a practice where the clitoris or the surrounding tissue is pricked with a sharp object, but where no tissue is removed."
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FGM is about causing pain during sex so the female will remain 'pure' and only have sex to have kids.
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I already asked you once to stop spreading disinformation. I pointed out that it harms people. I linked you the information and quote you needed. You ignored that.
The article points out one type of female circumcision that doesn't involve cutting at all. It's literally in the quote. It's less bad than male circumcision. It's not "about" causing pain during sex. The article points out this as a rite of passage or initiation.
Stop spreading disinformation. It justifies people treating you badly in your daily life. It makes you deserve to be revilved and
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No, a core part of the post is that you deserve to experience people being what you call "transphobic" to you, based on the posts you make online. Bad people deserve bad experiences. You deserve that.
The word is, correctly, disinformation: https://www.dictionary.com/browse/disinformation
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Can you please explain what I did wrong? I haven't intentionally hurt anyone. I know I'm not the best person but still
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I'm not spreading any incorrect information, you are.
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