Breast ironing: grim secret of Africa's women

Sydney Morning Herald ^ | 7/6/06 | Tansa Musa/Reuters

[HitmanLV]

The same might work there if they ever bother to hold men accountable for their behavior.

That's exactly right.

[butternut_squash_bisque]

LOL! Or *butt watchers*, either!

[Feiny]

This story is beyond horrid. I knew about clitoral mutilations, but not this....what sort of backwards freaks even think to do that?

[MineralMan]

"This story is beyond horrid. I knew about clitoral mutilations, but not this....what sort of backwards freaks even think to do that?"

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I don't know. Here's something from the article:

"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."

[Neidermeyer]

Q: How awful! How do they ever feed their babies?

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A: Feeding the babies just leads to dead/starving 2 year olds.. when these people learn to feed themselves I'll dance a jig..

[Jeff Chandler]

Note the subtle statmemnts. Happens in Christian and animist part but not in the muslim part. Anyone have thoughts............

Christian chriches do not have the threat of the sword behind them to enforce Christian morality.

[Hegemony Cricket]

"Why would I be a 'leg man'? I HAVE legs."
~Jerry Seinfeld

[Jeff Chandler]

Women here are treated as human beings.

Indeed. The Western concept of the worth of the individual is based upon the Judaic tradition as transmitted through Christianity. Unfortunately, Western culture has greatly rejected its tradition of self-respect (personal modesty), and has sexualized its children.

[Jeff Chandler]

chriches = churches

[Humidston]

our habit of flaunting our collective daughters' sexual characteristics at a young age is a bad thing

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.

It disgusts me to see a child painted up like a hooker.

[GoldCountryRedneck]

Anyone have thoughts.................

Sure, you see, the Northern Muslims only mutilate female genitals...none of this dizgusting 'breast ironing' business. (/src)

~GCR~

[Lucky9teen]

chriches = churches

And in some respects...churches = crutches.

[Lucky9teen]

What bothers me if little 4 and 5 year old girls wearing belly shirts and little shorts or pants with words written across their bum. Why?

[Skooz]

And in some respects...churches = crutches.

I gladly use that crutch. All the time.

[Lucky9teen]

What bothers me is little 4 and 5 year old girls wearing belly shirts and little shorts or pants with words written across their bum. Why?

[Jeff Chandler]

And in some respects...churches = crutches.

To some.

[processing please hold]

Dear Lord. *shakes head*

Where are our feminist? Resting and feeling smug in their glass towers? Where's Laura Bush? She spoke out for Afghani women ruled by the taliban.

[MrEdd]

And in some respects...churches = crutches.

Which is appropriate, since man is irrevocably broken by sin. Though Christ is the great physician, he has left the community of believers to minister to one another until his return.

[Jeff Chandler]

What bothers me is little 4 and 5 year old girls wearing belly shirts and little shorts or pants with words written across their bum. Why?

People don't understand the responsibilities of parenthood. They think their children are extensions of themselves and they are guided by popular culture instead of traditional morality (as taught by the Church). They don't allow their children to be children by protecting them from the sexualization rampant in secular culture.

[Xenalyte]

Because their parents are a) lazy, b) trashy, or c) their daughter's "best friend."