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Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 6:10 pm
by BSmack
IN!!!!
sin
Roy Tarpley
Re: Breast Ironing - Uh...WTF?!?!
Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 6:22 pm
by Mike the Lab Rat
"Breast ironing" -- the use of hard or heated objects or other substances to try to stunt breast growth in girls -- is a traditional practice in West Africa, experts say.
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"Breast ironing is an age-old practice in Cameroon, as well as in many other countries in West and Central Africa, including Chad, Togo, Benin, Guinea-Conakry, just to name a few," said Flavien Ndonko, an anthropologist and local representative of German development agency GTZ, which sponsored the survey.
"If society has been silent about it up to now it is because, like other harmful practices done to women such as female genital mutilation, it was thought to be good for the girl," said Ndonko.
"Even the victims themselves thought it was good for them."
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Nevertheless, support for and opposition to the tradition remains evenly balanced. According to the survey, 39 percent of women opposed it, while 41 percent expressed support and 26 percent were indifferent.
But you know, according to some of my militantly cultural relativist education professors, we have no right to in any way criticize these practices, since we're just imposing our Western, Eurocentric, heterosexist, racist views on their equally morally valid traditions...
Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 6:29 pm
by OCmike
BSmack wrote:IN!!!!
sin
Roy Tarpley
How did I know that was coming.
Anywho, you'll never hear about scrotal ironing or testicular ironing, which is yet another reason that it's good to be a dude.
Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 6:40 pm
by Smackie Chan
OCmike wrote:you'll never hear about scrotal ironing
Don't count on it. Mine's kinda wrinkled, and I think I'd prefer a nice, smoove feel when I lovingly and often fondle it.
brb
Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 6:41 pm
by Felix
OCmike wrote: you'll never hear about scrotal ironing or testicular ironing.........
thanks for the "autocringe"......
I owe ya.....
Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 7:19 pm
by indyfrisco
I'm sure some are shocked that the majority of Americans cut a piece of dick off the boys at birth too.
Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 7:22 pm
by Rich Fader
Yeah, but circumcision doesn't normally leave huge painful scars on the crank or stop it from growing, does it?
Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 7:33 pm
by Smackie Chan
Rich Fader wrote:Yeah, but circumcision doesn't normally leave huge painful scars on the crank or stop it from growing, does it?
Ask this guy.
Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 7:36 pm
by Rich Fader
Smackie Chan wrote:Rich Fader wrote:Yeah, but circumcision doesn't normally leave huge painful scars on the crank or stop it from growing, does it?
Ask this guy.
Which is why I said
normally.
Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 7:43 pm
by Smackie Chan
Rich Fader wrote:Smackie Chan wrote:Rich Fader wrote:Yeah, but circumcision doesn't normally leave huge painful scars on the crank or stop it from growing, does it?
Ask this guy.
Which is why I said
normally.
What's so abnormal about penile self-mutilation and foreskin snacks?
Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 7:47 pm
by Tom In VA
Smackie Chan wrote:Rich Fader wrote:
Which is why I said
normally.
..... foreskin snacks?
Calamari ?
Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 7:50 pm
by Smackie Chan
Tom In VA wrote:Smackie Chan wrote:foreskin snacks?
Calamari ?
No, thanks ... I already had lunch.
Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 7:55 pm
by Mike the Lab Rat
I've never understood why an all-powerful, omniscient deity would ask for that particular part of the human anatomy as part of a covenant, but hey, if that's what he wants as part of the deal...
..anyway...
...for anyone to claim that the barbaric practices of female genital mutilation (and clitorectomy) and breast ironing are in any way comparable to infant circumcision is disingenuous. Female genital mutilation and breast ironing are misogynistic efforts that deliberately seek to impair the sexual function of women, while the circumcision has neither the intent nor (normally) the effect of impeding the sexual function of the patient. Hell, there are even some advantages (hygenically speaking) in being...errr...a "crew neck" instead of a "turtle neck."
Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 8:00 pm
by Smackie Chan
Mike the Lab Rat wrote:I've never understood why an all-powerful, omniscient deity would ask for that particular part of the human anatomy as part of a covenant, but hey, if that's what he wants as part of the deal...
I'm not gonna pretend to understand that one either. I also wonder why He'd give it to us in the first place if He's just gonna ask for it back. Might be some sort of spiritual credit check.
a "crew neck" instead of a "turtle neck."
Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 9:11 pm
by Bobby42
I read SS's post and had a flashback from "Animal house" where Bluto agonizes as the bottle of Jack Daniel's crashes to the ground.
Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2006 2:30 am
by smackaholic
I think the OL started doing it to herself after my son was born.
Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2006 2:54 am
by socal
I chuckle at this story only because today was the day every father dreads: daughter got her first bra.
:?
Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2006 6:05 am
by Diogenes
Mike the Lab Rat wrote:I've never understood why an all-powerful, omniscient deity would ask for that particular part of the human anatomy as part of a covenant.....
Maybe because...
Mike the Lab Rat wrote:....there are even some advantages (hygenically speaking) in being...errr...a "crew neck" instead of a "turtle neck."