Katie Couric's Notebook: Female Circumcision (CBS News)

Every day, around 6000 young girls are circumcised. The United Nations calls the practice a human rights violation. Katie Couric says it's time to eradicate this archaic practice. (CBSNews.com)

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[FartyFartyPoopyPants]

male circumsicion is equally as bad.

[matrix268]

Its idiotic not to address male circumcision as being equally barbaric.

[matrix268]

@linzee4584 I don't think someone like you (based on your comments) needs an excuse to hate .

[lochinvar00465]

The Legal-Fact on Forced Foreskinectomy

The practice of MGM [also] in this country [ the USA ] violates numerous laws and international treaties, including the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the UN Convention Against Torture, the Constitution and Penal-Law.

It is in violation of the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution, which GUARANTEES EQUAL-PROTECTION for both girls AND boys under the law.

Prof. jur. med. Amen Ronald Oberhollenzer

[bodaciouscowboy]

Good point. Many of the excuses used to justify FGM mirror the reasons given for male infant circumcision in America. "It's cleaner." "Men like it better that way." "She'll be ridiculed if she doesn't get it done" (the locker room argument). "It's a cultural tradition." "Mom had it done, and she has no complaints about it."

[monicabags]

Rewatch the video and substitute the word "male" for everytime she says "female". Same thing. We need to stop cutting boys here in the United States. Now.

[neechee5150]

@linzee4584 I assume that you are a woman. IF so, have you given birth to a son? If so did you have him circumcised? If not, in the future when you have a son will you have him circumcised or not? Also are you equally critical of women who have their sons circumcised and of women who will only date circumcised men(and yes there are tens of thousands of women who hold this view in the US)

[455898334]

This is sexism at its best

Circumcise a male infant = Oh it's just their traditions, and hey, it is so blah blah blah good for you

Circumcise a female = HOLY FUCKING SHIT OH LORD, THEY'RE SO BARBARIC! MUST STOP THEM IMMEDIATELY.

[hannahpdx1]

Male circumcision is just as bad.

[drealgrin]

@linzee4584 Incorrect, about 100 baby boys die from circumcision every year. Even in medical settings it's not 100% safe. That's not even including the thousands that die from being cut in the bush in Africa. The foreskin is far more than a piece of skin, It's an entire body part that serves numerous sexual and pleasure functions.

FGM may be more severe, but worse is up for debate. And it's certainly no more horrifying. I'd say they are equally as horrifying as they both mutilate genitals.

[linzee4584]

@drealgrin First of all, the comment you're replying to is over three months old. Second of all, the title of the video is "Katie Couric's Notebook: Female Circumcision (CBS News)". Want to talk about male circumcision, which no baby boys have died from I might add, go find the right video. Lastly, removing a piece of skin vs. a sexual organ, hummmm, wtf is worse and more horrifying? No one's saying that male circumcision is okay, it's just not as bad, think about it.