Many of the girls at risk of FGM are under the age of 5, the UN says. Around 230 million women and girls around the world are survivors of the practice.

  • HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world
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    10 小时前

    Whataboutism.

    Both are bad and should be illegal. However FGM is by far typically more brutal, invasive, unsanitary and deadly.

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      8 小时前

      It’s not “whatabout” it’s “this too.” That circumcision isn’t brutal, invasive, unsanitary, and deadly just shows how fucked things get when genital mutilation is normalized