Nakamura Kyoko

An interesting range of articles, reflecting a diversity of opinions, on female FGM/C. Some default to speaking about the most extreme form, infibulation, which most can agree should be eliminated for a variety of reasons, including health complications. But the Zero Tolerance encompasses Type IV nicks and pricks, which one chapter acknowledges is less injurious than what males experience with their own circumcisions, which go uncritiqued in the furor to preserve and protect females. So the powers-that-be are pushing a problematic and inconsistent position, which makes more difficult effecting any substantial change of even the worst forms. There's much improvement yet to go, but not that will come from western feminists being insensitive to the local understandings of the women involved.… (meer)