Comments on: Is Labiaplasty Genital Mutilation? http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/sexist/2008/11/25/is-labiaplasty-genital-mutilation/ Sex and Gender in D.C. Wed, 25 Aug 2010 12:24:38 -0400 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: African Anonymous http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/sexist/2008/11/25/is-labiaplasty-genital-mutilation/comment-page-1/#comment-3165 African Anonymous Wed, 25 Feb 2009 23:12:11 +0000 http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/sexist/?p=1321#comment-3165 There is no comparison between the butchering done during labiaplasty, and the nick they give you with the so called "FGM". I was given one, without my consent, and I do not care! Consent is not an issue here. Do you not tell your kids to finish their food before they go out and play? Why does it that no one shouts 'consent'?! I will tell you why; because it is outrageous! They are your kids and you raise them the way you see fit, not the way some person on the other side of the globe sees fit! "It is much more severe than what is being done by these plastic surgeons" or, "Societal pressure makes mothers and grandmothers in other cultures put their daughters through FGM" I know you did not make up those lies, but you are helping to spread them. Please stop, and leave use alone! Please, to you, the writer, I am not accusing you of anything, but stop spreading the lies written by other, like: There is no comparison between the butchering done during labiaplasty, and the nick they give you with the so called "FGM". I was given one, without my consent, and I do not care! Consent is not an issue here. Do you not tell your kids to finish their food before they go out and play? Why does it that no one shouts 'consent'?! I will tell you why; because it is outrageous! They are your kids and you raise them the way you see fit, not the way some person on the other side of the globe sees fit!

"It is much more severe than what is being done by these plastic surgeons"
or,
"Societal pressure makes mothers and grandmothers in other cultures put their daughters through FGM"

I know you did not make up those lies, but you are helping to spread them. Please stop, and leave use alone!
Please, to you, the writer, I am not accusing you of anything, but stop spreading the lies written by other, like:

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