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Breast ironing: grim secret of Africa's women
Sydney Morning Herald ^ | 7/6/06 | Tansa Musa/Reuters

Posted on 07/06/2006 12:06:59 PM PDT by wagglebee

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To: MrEdd

Understandably and I agree to a degree. However, there are those who love to preach, but don't practice what they preach. That was my point. :)


41 posted on 07/06/2006 1:03:27 PM PDT by Lucky9teen (Ask not what the government can do for you. Ask why it doesn't.)
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To: Xenalyte

It's really sad too that parents do that, kind of living through their children. It so hurts the child for the future, imo.

My brother and sister-in-law do that with my 4 year old neice. They aren't involved in the church and it shows. We pray for them all the time. Although my brother was raised believing in God and going to church and all that, he has fallen away because it's just not important to him and his wife doesn't know much and seems cut off from wanting to know.

Meanwhile, their kids will suffer as they don't guide them with God's will, imo. And I can already see my sister-in-law is forming a "best friend" type thing with my neice, with what she subjects her to (TV programming for teens (not little kids), the clothes she wears, verbage she uses, etc.). What ever happened to kids being kids? Why do they have to grow up so damn fast?

As parents, we're responsible for the future of our country, and our children are that future.


42 posted on 07/06/2006 1:09:43 PM PDT by Lucky9teen (Ask not what the government can do for you. Ask why it doesn't.)
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To: wagglebee

Breast ironing.....I tried it but the wrinkles are still there.


43 posted on 07/06/2006 1:10:01 PM PDT by colorcountry ( Run with scissors???? I can barely jog my memory)
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To: wagglebee
"This is barbaric."

It would be if it were indeed true.
Been to both Togo and Benin Republic.
Never saw or even heard of any such practice.
Even dated a lady or two from Togo, and their breasts were as juicy and hot as any I have seen.
I am always very skeptical of Europeans going to Africa, and coming back with tall tales
44 posted on 07/06/2006 1:10:51 PM PDT by Jameison
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To: wagglebee

Good holy crap! These folks are unreal. How do they expect these girls to nurse their young?


45 posted on 07/06/2006 1:10:55 PM PDT by TheSpottedOwl (If you don't understand the word "Illegal", then the public school system has failed you.)
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To: colorcountry
I tried it but the wrinkles are still there.

Try a little magic sizing, or starch. You may need to turn them inside out for best results.

Well it was how I used to get my uniforms to pass inspection...

46 posted on 07/06/2006 1:15:12 PM PDT by MrEdd (Bad spellers of the world - UNTIE!,)
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To: wagglebee

Why not TEACH the men in their culture not to RAPE!! Instead these people torture their female children because a barbarian male COULD do something to them. SICK....SICK society...uncivilized.


47 posted on 07/06/2006 1:18:23 PM PDT by Suzy Quzy ("When Cabals Go Kaboom"....upcoming book on Mary McCarthy's Coup-Plotters.)
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To: wagglebee
And I thought this was bad.

That's just barbaric.

48 posted on 07/06/2006 1:23:50 PM PDT by CougarGA7 (There are no trophies for winning wars. Only consequences for losing them.)
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To: wagglebee
The practice has many side-effects, including severe pain and abscesses, infections, breast cancer, and even the complete disappearance of one or both breasts.

Presumably loss of ability to breast-feed too.

This is a much more extreme version of a common practice in this country in the 1920s, when it was fashionable for girls/women to be flat-chested, and many bound their breasts tightly every day. Probably made them droop early, but since they didn't sleep that way, and certainly weren't burning anything, it probably didn't do any serious damage. My grandmother and her sister both did this.

49 posted on 07/06/2006 2:40:45 PM PDT by GovernmentShrinker
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To: wagglebee
This is barbaric.

Just wondering...Do you suppose there are some cultures that believe it's just as barbaric to cut off the working end of a penis?

At the same time, I agree with you. But then again, I'm a "boob man."

50 posted on 07/06/2006 3:20:53 PM PDT by Living Free in NH
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To: MineralMan

How true! Not even that old, I regret saying. Prostitots.


51 posted on 07/06/2006 3:41:12 PM PDT by trimom
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To: wagglebee
This is barbaric.

So are the rape gangs that prowl the streets of Cameroon and Tanzania.

Families take extraordinary measures to disguise their daughters...who are at a very high risk of being sexually assaulted...or worse.

52 posted on 07/06/2006 3:43:30 PM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (I can't complain...but sometimes I still do.)
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To: wagglebee

Stone Age savagery.


53 posted on 07/06/2006 4:35:02 PM PDT by Khurkris (Things look different from over here.)
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To: wagglebee
The practice is most common in the Christian and animist south of the country, rather than in the Muslim North and Far North provinces, where only 10 per cent of women are affected.

I suppose this makes sense. After all, the only thing a Muslim family has to do after a rape is burn/behead/stone the victim... The others, misguided though they may be, are trying to save their daughters from violence and emotional trauma.

54 posted on 07/06/2006 9:10:22 PM PDT by LongElegantLegs (You can do that, and be a whack-job pedophile on meth.)
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To: PeterPrinciple
Note the subtle statmemnts. Happens in Christian and animist part but not in the muslim part. Anyone have thoughts.................

Breasts are not very noticeable in a burka. That is why they wear them.

55 posted on 07/07/2006 7:28:32 AM PDT by Between the Lines (Be careful how you live your life, it may be the only gospel anyone reads.)
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To: feinswinesuksass
I like big butts & I cannot lie. BREAK OUT THE HOT BUM STONES!!!

Sir Mix Alot

57 posted on 07/07/2006 6:43:43 PM PDT by dc27
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To: Humidston
AMEN! It calls to mind how many mommies take their little girls to Glamor Shots, paint them up, friz their hair, have them pout suggestively into the camera, and shoot pictures of them.

My wife's hairdresser(single mom), had one of those pics done with her 14 year old daughter. She proudly displayed the picture at her station. The mom and daughter had the same low cut top on.

58 posted on 07/07/2006 6:46:53 PM PDT by dc27
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