How does the custom of female circumcision in African countries and the culture surrounding it place certain influences on many young females within those countries and in America?
All the luggage is packed and everyone is ready for vacation. Days pass. The family is still spilling vague details about the trip. Then, the big day comes around. They board the plane, bus, or train. She is introduced to confusion when they get to their destination but waves it off and she shakes her head anyway. After the long trip, they all decide to get some rest. Instead of waking up peacefully, she wakes up in fear, sweat, agony, blood, and tears. She's screaming for help, but no one can hear her. She passes out from all the pain. Hours, maybe a …show more content…
She presents how most men are refusing to marry uncircumcised women and how the parents of these women forced to take heart-wrenching decisions, also explaining how this can be a problem when trying to exterminate the practice: "It is a real shame that although it is against the law in Kenya to use derogatory terms in reference to a woman's circumcision status, the governor of Kiambu got away with this.” “I do not respond to uncircumcised girls,” Mr. Kabogo blurted out in Kikuyu in an apparent reference to Ms. Ng'ang'a's attack on his style of leadership. Men no matter what social standing, are standing against women who refuse to be cut and this is a problem for many. "The girl's parents want them to have families and if their men will not marry them, then you can criminalize FGM to the high heavens, but it will still continue. This is the reason I have said before, that Somali girls born and brought up in Europe are taken for ‘holidays' to their home countries and return home circumcised. Although the families know the problem and the risk they are taking, they want for their daughters, a good future.” Tabitha Mwangi’s perspective is clear. She is against the practice of female circumcision and this article she wrote was to inform and educate the public on the influence of the societies that practice female circumcision on young women living in those …show more content…
It states, “On the other hand we are told that female circumcision is “bad”, that it is “mutilation” of perfectly “healthy” genitalia and interferes with sexual functioning. We are told further that Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is a form of extreme patriarchal control over women and that it must be eradicated with self-righteous, robust anger and urgency. And so, like me, many of you have asked yourselves: How is that my mother, aunties, grandma and other women in my family have been participating in this great crime against women and girls and even subjected me to it? Are these women really acting out of ignorance, shame, oppression, and hopelessness? Why were all the women celebrating and rejoicing during my own ceremony or others I attended?” This quote is relevant to the idea that female circumcision is dubbed a horrible thing under false pretenses while also introducing a contrasting perspective from Tabitha
All the luggage is packed and everyone is ready for vacation. Days pass. The family is still spilling vague details about the trip. Then, the big day comes around. They board the plane, bus, or train. She is introduced to confusion when they get to their destination but waves it off and she shakes her head anyway. After the long trip, they all decide to get some rest. Instead of waking up peacefully, she wakes up in fear, sweat, agony, blood, and tears. She's screaming for help, but no one can hear her. She passes out from all the pain. Hours, maybe a …show more content…
She presents how most men are refusing to marry uncircumcised women and how the parents of these women forced to take heart-wrenching decisions, also explaining how this can be a problem when trying to exterminate the practice: "It is a real shame that although it is against the law in Kenya to use derogatory terms in reference to a woman's circumcision status, the governor of Kiambu got away with this.” “I do not respond to uncircumcised girls,” Mr. Kabogo blurted out in Kikuyu in an apparent reference to Ms. Ng'ang'a's attack on his style of leadership. Men no matter what social standing, are standing against women who refuse to be cut and this is a problem for many. "The girl's parents want them to have families and if their men will not marry them, then you can criminalize FGM to the high heavens, but it will still continue. This is the reason I have said before, that Somali girls born and brought up in Europe are taken for ‘holidays' to their home countries and return home circumcised. Although the families know the problem and the risk they are taking, they want for their daughters, a good future.” Tabitha Mwangi’s perspective is clear. She is against the practice of female circumcision and this article she wrote was to inform and educate the public on the influence of the societies that practice female circumcision on young women living in those …show more content…
It states, “On the other hand we are told that female circumcision is “bad”, that it is “mutilation” of perfectly “healthy” genitalia and interferes with sexual functioning. We are told further that Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is a form of extreme patriarchal control over women and that it must be eradicated with self-righteous, robust anger and urgency. And so, like me, many of you have asked yourselves: How is that my mother, aunties, grandma and other women in my family have been participating in this great crime against women and girls and even subjected me to it? Are these women really acting out of ignorance, shame, oppression, and hopelessness? Why were all the women celebrating and rejoicing during my own ceremony or others I attended?” This quote is relevant to the idea that female circumcision is dubbed a horrible thing under false pretenses while also introducing a contrasting perspective from Tabitha