*This is slightly off topic of the original thread but I feel quite strongly about something, and here it is:
"Female circumcision" is most certainly NOT equivalent to circumcision. It's a term that the media took up to describe something that happens in many Third World countries. It's not performed in the United States. (Except perhaps in small ethnic communities, in a non-medical setting. I can't imagine that either Canada or Australia does this, either, and I think that covers 99%+ of the board members.
So it's irrelevant here.
It's "nicer" to say it the first way. Less offensive to our Western sensibilities. Try googling it and you will be sent to a search with the label Female genital mutilation.
(FGM), also known as female genital cutting and female circumcision, is the ritual cutting or removal of some or all of the external female genitalia.
It's a term describing a disgusting thing. Imagine cutting the whole thing off. That would be akin to "female circumcision". That term is misleading. I'm actually glad to see that Google took my search this way - now I know. Now you know.
"Female circumcision" is most certainly NOT equivalent to circumcision. It's a term that the media took up to describe something that happens in many Third World countries. It's not performed in the United States. (Except perhaps in small ethnic communities, in a non-medical setting. I can't imagine that either Canada or Australia does this, either, and I think that covers 99%+ of the board members.
So it's irrelevant here.
It's "nicer" to say it the first way. Less offensive to our Western sensibilities. Try googling it and you will be sent to a search with the label Female genital mutilation.
(FGM), also known as female genital cutting and female circumcision, is the ritual cutting or removal of some or all of the external female genitalia.
It's a term describing a disgusting thing. Imagine cutting the whole thing off. That would be akin to "female circumcision". That term is misleading. I'm actually glad to see that Google took my search this way - now I know. Now you know.