October 9, 1999 at 12:00 am
#33023
Megan S.
Member
My mother once told me a funny story: A mother and daughter are in the kitchen making dinner. The daughter is about to place a roast in the oven and the mother directs her to cut both ends off. ‘But why’ the daughter asks. ‘Well, I really don’t know’ the mother replies. ‘Your grandmother always did it, let’s call her and ask’. They proceed to call the grandmother and she replies ‘We had such a small oven when you were a child, a whole roast couldn’t fit in the oven, so I always had to cut the ends off’. So my point is, we often follow custom and tradition without questioning it…we view female circumcision as brutal and barbaric, what difference does gender make? I myself am the mother of a 5 year old uncircumsized son.
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