Female Genital Mutilation In Mean Girls

The movie revolves around the life of Waris Dirie, a girl from Somalia who went through the practice of female genital mutilation which is a custom in some African countries for they believe that uncircumcised girls are not clean. The story started when Waris Dirie run away from the old man where she was sold to by her father and went to London where she managed to work as a housekeeper in an embassy where her aunt and uncle lives in and is where she also met a woman name Marilyn who became her friend later on. In her stay in London, Marilyn has helped her in a lot of things which includes giving her a place to live in London, helping her find a job, awakening her own cultural differences and introducing her to a different culture. She took …show more content…
It may be boring at first but once you’ve got the message of the movie, you’ll surely never get bored of it. The movie was successful in achieving their goals of spreading awareness of some issues particularly, the female genital mutilation tradition in some parts of the world. I agree in Waris’ belief that female genital mutilation should be stopped. It is another tradition that must be stopped for it does not bring anything good to all women but instead it brings harm to a woman who experienced it. It just leads to a lot of bad things including psychological trauma which is why in the movie we can see that Waris still felts bad and still cries about her experience even though it already happened a long time ago. Another one is it also leads to body infections because as we see in the movie, the one who does the mutilation is not a doctor and does not use some kind of tools that are sterilized but what’s worst here is it can also lead to death which is what Waris’ sisters ended up as she stated at the end of the movie. It is so sad and upsetting that it is still being continued to other countries. I can’t prevent myself from feeling bad for those innocent young girls who went through this practice that died because they didn’t had the capacity to endure the pain it brought or because of the infection that this practice has caused and the pain and sadness that the death of their daughter will bring to the family. Another is that it also violates human rights since in this practice, it is often carried out without consent and is forcibly against a girl’s will and if they don’t do this practice they will not be allowed to marry someone and will be treated as a whore or dirty which is something that every woman doesn’t want and doesn’t deserve to be treated. This has made me mesmerized by Waris’ actions for she is courageous and brave to speak up to everyone for it is what she thinks is right and I