Naomi Wolf on the Somali genital mutilation of women
(This is Part-1; for Part-2, go here)
Read Dr Naomi Wolf’s article here. It’s devastating.
We’re talking about nation-wide traditional ongoing genital mutilation of women, in Somalia—now brought to the United States.
Are major media covering this? Of course not.
Because we’re supposed to welcome destruction.
And women’s groups are supposed to bow down to “the customs of other cultures,” and keep their mouths shut about this torture of women and girls.
Wolf: “According to the FGM/C Research Initiative, which centers on studying the issue of female genital mutilation, a staggering 99.2% of girls and women in Somalia aged 15-49 have endured female genital mutilation. The average ages when Somali girls are ‘cut’ is from ten to fourteen years of age.”
“The Somali community has the highest percentage of genitally mutilated women in the world; there are 61,000 Somali people in the state of Minnesota alone, and many sources confirm that Somali girls and women continue to suffer genital mutilation while in the United States. In other words, Somali immigrants in Minnesota have not stopped this abuse of ‘their’ girls and women, just because they are now also Minnesotans.”
“Somali ‘female circumcision’ is different from other forms—it is by far the most severe. Somali FGM is Type III genital mutilation, which means the excision of the entire outer part of girls’ genitalia, and the stitching together of the raw wound that is left behind. Somali FGM involves: ‘the complete removal of the clitoris and labia minora, together with the inner surface of the labia majora.”
“Women and girls subjected to this kind of mutilation suffer chronic bleeding, horrific pain during intercourse, problems in childbirth, infections, and dramatically increased mortality…”
I wonder what Omar Fateh would say about all this, if reporters pressed him. He’s the son of a Somali immigrant running for mayor of Minneapolis.
And how about Tampon Tim Walz, the governor of Minnesota? What would he say?
—A culture of torture of women and young girls.
Imported into the US.
Memo to Tom Homan:
Tell me if I’m wrong, Tom, but this is an ongoing mass crime being committed here on our soil, and no prosecutor is stepping up to the plate. Imagine what would happen if a group of American good old boys in Texas were cutting off the clitorises of their daughters. But in Minnesota, the crime can continue and no is even deported? No one is put in prison for 40 years for this mutilation?
Because it’s a Somali tradition?
Maybe we’ve been looking at things the wrong way. Killing people with fentanyl is a Mexican drug cartel tradition. US gangs shooting people in the head is a long-standing gang tradition.
Problem solved.
Leave it alone. Walk away.
-- Jon Rappoport
As a lover of women and of the gateway — the vulva — this is horrid. However, we consistently ignore the genital mutilation of men that has gone on uninterrupted in the United States for many generations. And both women and gay men can chirp about whether they prefer "cut" or "uncut" but the reality is that the male foreskin is the equivalent of the clitoris. According to Joseph Kramer, the foreskin spiritually maps to the heart. In terms of brain anatomy, the foreskin maps to pleasure receptors that were not designed for pain.
In terms of familial bonds, such an attack on a baby is about destroying trust -- his trust in his protectors and his trust in existence. Nearly every man you see in the United States has been through this on day three of his life. What a way to enter the physical plane.
The tip of the boy's penis is amputated without anesthesia and without comforting, and it's brutally painful — and then for the rest of his life, an attribute of his body is missing. This separates him from his mother, who was supposed to protect him from this kind of assault at three days old; it affects his sexual feelings and abilities; it makes him accustomed to agonizing pain on an organ designed to give and receive bliss; and nobody cares. We have never reckoned the cost, in terms of making men ready for being the recipient of sexual violence. Nobody who claims that men are all potential perpetrators accounts for the role of male genital mutilation in their perception.
If the mother wants this done to the boy, none dare call it sexual violence by women. None dare say that the procedure IS MEDICALLY USELESS and done for profit only(and paid for by insurance) — "curing" nonexistent problems — a theme of this Substack. If we're going to address genital mutilation of girls and young women for girls, let's address it for all people. The hypocrisy is too much to stand. Circumcision must be BANNED or completely eschewed as barbaric like the prefrontal lobotomy. In sexual terms, it is the same thing.
Thank you for sharing Naomi’s article and a quick summary of this terrible mutilation going on. Time for a children’s bill of rights. Nobody under 18 can be mutilated, sterilized (literally or chemically with puberty blockers), have double mastectomies, or any other procedure they are unable to consent to. Parents should not have these rights under loopholes in the laws. Children are people that shouldn’t legally enter adulthood with sexual scars because of their parents misguided beliefs.