John Breeding on Alice Walker, Social Oppression of Women & Genital Mutilation

John Breeding on Alice Walker, Social Oppression of Women & Genital Mutilation

Dr. John Breeding discusses his thoughts on book called Anything We Love Can Be Saved by social activists and womanist Alice Walker. Alice is best known for as the author of the book The Color Purple.

In this video Dr. Breeding discusses his thoughts on the social oppression of women including genital mutilation.

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[telewebservices]

As far as i know, the genital mutilation of young women is not directed in the Quran at all, it is a barbaric ritual that has taken many areas of this world.

[TheRhymeWizard]

I appreciate these videos.

[vention4wh]

@IbnNero

Thanks.

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[IbnNero]

@vention4wh i like

[shadowdeviant44]

@cobrachoppergirl Pretty much. But remember,some tribes do it as tradition. Tattoos and piercings have been around for thousands of years and have different meanings to different cultures.

[myastroflight]

@telewebservices That is true. Mohammed was recorded as being asked the question of the validity of FGM. His reply was along the lines of, do it if you want to, but don't cause so much damage that it interferes with the pleasure of the future husband.

[joeratti]

@cobrachoppergirl because that is their freedom. so is difference of opinion

[cobrachoppergirl]

What I don't get, is why females/people mutilate THEMSELVES. Piercings of ears, tongues, nose, pipes, genitals, its stupid. The same goes for tatoos. They make no GD sense to me. Why do that to your body? And they think they are making it look... better????

[mzoltan14]

i like these videos mostly. though, im not entirely sure whats the matte with the oppressing system. I can think, they may have a long term plan already, wich we cannot see now. being harmless (as far as we can) is a goal, which should be sustained. However, i don't know how to get there, where everyone would be harmless.

But things will change for sure. If nothing else, science will solve the problem.

[princesscharmer]

No matter how many times I rack my brain over it, I just don't understand why society gets that female genital mutilation is... well mutilation, yet circumcision is just considered a routine medical procedure...

[vention4wh]

@DoJaenin

LOL! Ya, I actually was patronizing you a bit with that last comment. It's true though. And I wish you good luck in the future. I kind of enjoyed our little discussion.

[vention4wh]

@DoJaenin

I agree that both men and women are oppressed. Our whole society is. The elite have done an excellent job of dividing us all into little camps who are at war with each other. That's what keeps us from uniting and taking our world back. With us all so divided they can enslave us all with debt, inflation and taxes, weakening us to the point where we can no longer resist. We could be headed for a very dark time indeed.