Revealed: 'dozens' of girls subjected to breast-ironing in UK

The Guardian ^ | January 26, 2019 | Inna Lazareva

[EdnaMode]

An African practice of “ironing” a girl’s chest with a hot stone to delay breast formation is spreading in the UK, with anecdotal evidence of dozens of recent cases, a Guardian investigation has established.

Community workers in London, Yorkshire, Essex and the West Midlands have told the Guardian of cases in which pre-teen girls from the diaspora of several African countries are subjected to the painful, abusive and ultimately futile practice.

Margaret Nyuydzewira, head of the diaspora group the Came Women and Girls Development Organisation (Cawogido), estimated that at least 1,000 women and girls in the UK had been subjected to the intervention. There has been no systematic study or formal data collection exercise.

[EdnaMode]

Where is the outrage from feminists?

[gaijin]

Oh, but the REAL source of oppression of women is the dreaded WESTERN CIV..!!!

Uh-huh.

[mkmensinger]

But it’s their culture! /sarc

[gaijin]

How much longer before London, too, is paralyzed by periodic fear of PENIS SHRINKERS..?

You THINK it’s a joke.

[null and void]

This is flat-out wrong!

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Such a shame what has happened to Great Britain.

[taxcontrol]

Ok, morals aside. How does one come up with the idea that rubbing hot stones on your breasts will stop them from growing?

[OpusatFR]

Breast ironing and clitoredectomy and not one word from the feminists.

Not to mention honor killings and wife beating.

Hypocrites all.

[The Deplorable Miss Lemon]

Could someone please tell me what contributions these 3rd world immigrants are making to our culture?

Rhetorical question, we all know the answer is zero.

[fireman15]

Cultural diversity, ain’t it grand? We can learn so much from these third world geniuses.

[humblegunner]

[OpusatFR]

63 IQs

[Liz]

..... pre-teen girls from the diaspora of several African countries are subjected to the painful practice.....
.....young Muslim girls are subjected to clitorectomies....

ALl cultures are the same (/sarc).

[gibsonguy]

Maybe there are sh*thole countries and this practice came from one of them, maybe.

[cherry]

what a stone age low IQ group to take into one's country....

but the war on boys continues.....NOT!

[adorno]

Ok, morals aside. How does one come up with the idea that rubbing hot stones on your breasts will stop them from growing?

"Simple". And I do mean, SIMPLE thinking.

Breasts are 'just wrinkles on the body', which can be likened to wrinkles on clothing, and to remove or lower wrinkles on clothing, they just get ironed down.

[dayglored]

> How does one come up with the idea that rubbing hot stones on your breasts will stop them from growing?

We're not talking a culture here that does carefully controlled, double-blind testing.

Primitive tribes do weird sh*t all the time.

(Then again, so do civilized populations, too, oh nevermind...)

[DesertRhino]

Medicine....from the people who panic and hide from an eclipse.

[bk1000]

Shithole. Who can deny?

[9YearLurker]

How hideous.