#fgm

[madwomxxn]

Here's an FGM survivor's response to that girl on TikTok who claimed "people focus on FGM so much because they want to tie women's oppression to genitalia so they can exclude transwomen."

[sewerwolves]

jersey is very incestuous

[this-is-anti-masculinity]

"Genital mutilation on people with natal vulvas and people with detected intersex genitalia tends to result in chronic pain, numbness, and/or dysfunction. Circumcision of a penis does not usually lead to those things." A correct statement. The physical consequences of vulva mutilation and IGM tend to be more severe.

"Therefore, penile circumcision on children is not an issue." Incorrect statement. It's still a violation of consent.

You can acknowledge that the first two often leave more severe consequences than the third, without negating the violation of consent of the third.

Not to mention that certain forms of IGM (ie; hymenotomies) don't leave any physical scarring behind, but they're still an issue because they violate the consent of the person with those traits.

[antics-of-a-spiteful-stickbug]

No I will not "look at the bright side" or "think positively" because I was born in a country where women don't have it as horrible as in other places. I didn't fucking choose to be born here, and they didn't choose to be born anywhere else.

If I were born in one of the 30 african and middle eastern countries where fgm is most concentrated according to the UN, my best scenario would be having my clitoris cut off without any kind of pain killer, with a razor blade that was never sterilized. They could also just decide to cut the whole thing off and then sew me shut, leaving a minuscule hole for my future "husband" to break through when he deems me worthy of his wrinkly, twice as old dick.

If I were born in Pakistan I could be one of the over 150 estimated women who get acid thrown at them annually, because their husbands (who I can assure you these women didn't marry by any real choice) threw a fucking tantrum over what they were wearing.

If I were born in America, where every 98 seconds someone is sexually assaulted, 91% of the victims being female, I could be one of the 1/3 of women who have experienced rape, physical violence, or stalking by an intimate partner in their lifetime according to the New York City National Organization for Women.

So with that said, I DON'T CARE THAT I HAVE IT LESS BAD, IT DOESN'T FUCKING MATTER

I didn't choose to be born in a country where I'm kind of viewed as an equal human being by most people despite the anatomy I didn't choose to have. Those 150 estimated pakistani women didn't fucking choose to have acid thrown at their faces. The women of america didn't choose the reality they live in right now.

I was lucky to be born in Sweden. I shouldn't have to consider being treated as a living, breathing human being as something lucky just because I have a fucking vagina.

Fuck the bright side and fuck your "optimism"

[pavl0bster]

WIP IT'S A WIP BUT IT'S A MINUTE LONG AND I'M SUFFERING!! but actually enjoying it a lot tbh. animating feels so good what the hell

it's gonna be the entire interlude ofc!! do you guys see the vision please tell me u do

[draculiette]

not my usual post. disturbing topics ahead, read at your own risk please.

i don't know if i should be sharing this, i might regret it, but i just found out that my parents had me circumcised, or in better words, had "doctors" perform fgm on me. i won't explain it here, i think it's better if you look it up. i found out because we were talking about my brother who got circumcised and i said, "so glad i don't have to go through that." they said, "what do you mean? girls get cut too."

i can't explain the heartbreak i'm feeling right now. i feel sick to my stomach. it feels like my chest is getting stomped on and i can't fucking breathe. i thought i was normal, i thought i climaxed normal, i thought that i was able to feel what every woman should feel, but how am i supposed to know what's normal and what's not if i'm cut? i couldn't say anything at first, but today i brought it up again after doing intensive research and found out about fgm.

what pissed me off the most was the fact that they asked me if i knew what the clitoris was before explaining. do you think i'm stupid? they treat me like a fucking child, i'm not a dumbass i know what the clitoris is and what i'm getting from this is that you messed with it. they said, "it was only a little bit, barely any blood came out." no, NO. no blood should come out because that's called mutilation. do you know how many nerve endings there are in the clitoris you dumbfuck? i found a religious book and skimmed through it (they've had it for years but i'm not religious so i never read it) and guess what i found? fgm. saying it's mandatory to cut the clitoris.

i write these stories to liberate myself as a woman. i deserve to have bodily autonomy, to have rights over my own body, to have sexual pleasure just like any other woman. if this happened to you too, i am so genuinely fucking sorry.

i was just a baby, not even a year old.

[acorpseinthisbed]

to provide enrichment for your two kid brothers, you should play fun games with them, like pill roulette. hand-feed them pills and make them guess what they are. if they're wrong, they have to take more. surely there are no consequences to this.

[a-room-of-my-own]

Harms of the current global anti-FGM campaign

Traditional female genital practices, though long-standing in many cultures, have become the focus of an expansive global campaign against ‘

And just like that “gender reassignment surgery” is used to justify female genital mutilation.

Thanks to our kweer friends little girls’ future get brighter and brighter !

And yes it’s MUTILATION and we will keep using that word you damned ghouls.