[LaBelleDameSansMerci]

"...Even Gloria Steinem, try though she might, was unable to make the torture of high-heeled shoes comparable to having your hand chopped right off...."

You must have missed the delightful series of lectures by Alice Walker about the prevalence of clitorectomy in the American South, when masses of American women had their little pinkies chopped off because Southern men couldn't fulfill their needs.

Well, I understand that a person can't sit in on every lecture.....

[Anamensis]

You must have missed the delightful series of lectures by Alice Walker about the prevalence of clitorectomy in the American South, when masses of American women had their little pinkies chopped off because Southern men couldn't fulfill their needs.

I'm aware of the medical profession's clitoredectomy/hysterectomy/lobotomy phase. But we are not talking about medical trends, we are talking about government.