Western feminists make it their business to fight against men, not other women. It is a tenet of modern feminist dogma that men are naturally despicable, and women paragons of virtue and the embodiment of all that is good in the world. Scratching the surface of infibulation reveals that grandmothers and their "sewing circles" are the ones responsible for continuing this barbarity. Public recognition of this fact by the feminists would be inconsistent with and in fact contrary to some of their most fundamental dogma. Therefore, the facts are conveniently ignored while the feminist leaders pay mere lip-service to the need for greater understanding and education for the perpetrators, who, being female, must by definition be victims of some historical male bias inherent in their culture.
Furthermore, the urge to continue this barbarism is almost intractable. In some colonial and formerly colonial cultures, India for example, the practice of clitorodectomy and infibulation were outlawed and made punishable by death once the colonial governments found out what was going on. Despite the law and executions, the practice went on and continues in secret, though has gradually diminished as western influences have brought freedom, education and cultural change.
Why would a grandmother and the other old crones of the neighbourhood want to cut a jagged bloody hole where her grandaughters' external genitalia used to be? I'd say it's because having the same done to them has driven them insane. I'd say because theirs were cut off when they were children, and the thinking is what was good enough for them is now good enough for their daughters and granddaughters. Not just their genitals got mutilated, but their sanity as well.
Could this also explain the inexplicable?
i.e.: mothers pushing their young sons to grow up to be martyrs for the One True Religion
and its Prophet, blessings and peace be upon him?
And those Third World countries still have the nerve to crybaby about how "horrible" colonialism was? It sounds like colonialism was a pretty good thing for a lot of women because it prohibited that barbaric practice. No matter how bad things were under colonialism it didn't come near to the brutality of the barbaric practices in parts of the Third World.
I thought it was because women were forbidden to see male doctors. I could be wrong, but I believe that's why the process is done by women. That dirty vagina, doncha know? Men can't be asked to work on THAT! Besides, having seen the CNN video of the 10-YO being cut, it was plainly obvious that NONE of the women involved were excited to be there -- not the victim, not the 'surgeon', and not those standing by and watching.
The older women would be unable to stand the idea of other women being able to enjoy intercourse and have orgasms
Envy is one of the strongest human emotions, and has been responsible for much horror in other contexts. It is the fundamental underpinning of Marxism and Communism