That's just barbaric.
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Breast ironing: grim secret of Africa's women
This is barbaric.
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I hear the solution is to give all the women abortions on demand.
Oh, and free condoms for the men.
(No, there's no logic in the liberal solution.)
"And yet we are supposed to accept that their culture is just "different" from ours but still acceptable."
That's right. Here, we put little girls into halter tops as soon as their breasts begin to show. That's much more sensible, I think. /sarc
How awful! How do they ever feed their babies?
I feel really bad for the young girls caught up in these backward, ignorant, barbaric cultures. But the answer isn't to "tolerate" and "respect" the cultures as just one of the many "diverse" ways that human beings live. The answer is to eradicate the cultural practices, like the British clamped down on suttee in India.
Ah jeez! And I get all bent out of shape at the thought of a mammogram.
Wow. I'm so thankful I don't live there (and that's not meant to be funny). How terrible.
Why not just bind 'em down with duct tape? Oh, there's no NAPA Stores over there? Never mind...
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.
Note the subtle statmemnts. Happens in Christian and animist part but not in the muslim part. Anyone have thoughts.................
There appears to be little or no concern that this is being done by the moms out of concern because of the lusty vermin men who have the notion that any girl/woman they choose is theirs to be had at any point in time...
OMG.
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.
Breast ironing.....I tried it but the wrinkles are still there.
Good holy crap! These folks are unreal. How do they expect these girls to nurse their young?
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.
That's just barbaric.
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.
Stone Age savagery.
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.