Posted on 07/29/2010 8:41:22 PM PDT by TheHawksNest
Little girls in Cameroon are being betrayed by their own mothers. Using piping hot stones, women “iron” their pubescent daughters’ breasts to destroy any visible sign of budding womanhood. Some of the victims of this torture are as young as nine.
The scars are horrific.
Women say it is love that drives them to brutalize their daughters this way, that they just want to protect young girls from being raped or becoming pregnant at an early age. Instead, they end up with daughters who are both mutilated and pregnant. Not only are the girls disfigured, but many suffer infection, pain, psychological distress, and damage to the breast tissue that can cause lactation difficulties and perhaps even breast cancer.
As with female genital mutilation, girls are having their bodies violated in unthinkable ways in order to control their sexuality. Why bother to address a high teen pregnancy rate with education about sex and birth control when you can scald away the flesh from your daughter’s chest? And of course, it’s easier to blame little girls for being too enticing than it is to repair a culture in which rape and assault are prevalent.
Please watch the documentary embedded below for more on this cruelty. (Note: The video contains some nudity.)
(Excerpt) Read more at newsrealblog.com ...
This whole this is picking out a few extreme cases to get folks to think abortion is a better answer.
25 percent of girls are subjected to this in Cameroon. That's not "a few extreme cases."
Watch the vid. This is a hoax. All you clowns on this thread getting emotional over this are SUCKERS. I really think this thread should be pulled. You all should be ashamed.
AAAAHHHH! Me Tallywhacker!
Did you even watch the vid?
You’ve been duped, fool.
I didnt see any pics of people actually torturing these girls.
What I did see was lots of caring spin and pics of supposed aftermath.
I tell Ya this whole piece is intended to horrify you into thinking the NPR gal has the answers.
I agree.
Good grief! horrific.
Did you even watch the vid?
You’ve been duped, fool.
How so? Unless the video was swapped out after I watched it, it was pretty horrible. And I've seen articles over the years in major newspapers about this practice. Do a Google News search. If you have a good reason to believe this is a hoax, I'm all ears.
Its a propaganda piece.
People cut males genitals here everyday.
But it got the blog some hits, didn’t it?
Meanwhile the same folks promote piercings.
They be tribal and cool...
People cut males genitals here everyday.
And do they circumcise baby boys in order to intentionally destroy their sexual attractiveness? Sorry, not at all the same thing. There are good arguments against male circumcision, but it's a different debate entirely.
BINGEFFINGOHH!!!!
Does it matter?
Wow. “Dingaling” is a super argument. “Nitwit” too. Case closed, I guess.
I suspect it might be an animist practice.
You miss the wider point.
This is a propaganda piece.
There are a billion cut men for every case of this nonsense that is just being used for shock value to promote an ulterior agenda.
I think he said a lot more than “dingaling”
I suspect it might be an animist practice.That's an interesting thought. It may have originated with animists, but seems to cross religious boundaries now. I was surprised to learn that it's most prevalent in urban areas.
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