Female Genital Mutilation: The Reality of Being a Woman Within the Confines of Culture & Tradition
Culture and Tradition are usually discussed in terms of their positive effects and connotations, the joyful and harmonious celebrations that accompany their fundamental purpose, and the undeviating devotion people have towards them, but here is an example, on a much darker note, of their eccentricities, instances of their extraneous non-secular implications, and the techniques they have used to obscure common sense and moral palpability. Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is a pseudo-clinical cultural practice that includes lacerative procedures that are purposefully meant to mutilate female genital organs for the sake of preserving traditional …show more content…
There is, as seen above, no medical or health related purposes behind the practice, making it absolutely unnecessary and rationally intolerable, but then again, that is an idea you may or may not choose to infer throughout this …show more content…
It exemplifies the extrinsic responsibilities that are passed onto women by culturally and religiously constructed norms and displays the immediate and/or gradual torment of female populations in an attempt to conserve their purity and righteousness. This tradition is harming innocent human beings both physically and emotionally, and if that does not convince you that the practice has no place in the world today, then nothing will.
A Somali Poem for survivors of Female Genital Mutilation written by a woman named Dahabo Ali Muse, who is also a survivor of FGM, contained the line "It is what my grandmother called the three feminine sorrows: the day of circumcision, the wedding night and the birth of a baby." And it is this line in the poem, that exhibits the horrors of FGM, that portrays the true agony the survivors feel, the torment that humanity faces when it is forced to abide by a tradition that does not belong in a world that has progressed to the extent that it
Culture and Tradition are usually discussed in terms of their positive effects and connotations, the joyful and harmonious celebrations that accompany their fundamental purpose, and the undeviating devotion people have towards them, but here is an example, on a much darker note, of their eccentricities, instances of their extraneous non-secular implications, and the techniques they have used to obscure common sense and moral palpability. Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is a pseudo-clinical cultural practice that includes lacerative procedures that are purposefully meant to mutilate female genital organs for the sake of preserving traditional …show more content…
There is, as seen above, no medical or health related purposes behind the practice, making it absolutely unnecessary and rationally intolerable, but then again, that is an idea you may or may not choose to infer throughout this …show more content…
It exemplifies the extrinsic responsibilities that are passed onto women by culturally and religiously constructed norms and displays the immediate and/or gradual torment of female populations in an attempt to conserve their purity and righteousness. This tradition is harming innocent human beings both physically and emotionally, and if that does not convince you that the practice has no place in the world today, then nothing will.
A Somali Poem for survivors of Female Genital Mutilation written by a woman named Dahabo Ali Muse, who is also a survivor of FGM, contained the line "It is what my grandmother called the three feminine sorrows: the day of circumcision, the wedding night and the birth of a baby." And it is this line in the poem, that exhibits the horrors of FGM, that portrays the true agony the survivors feel, the torment that humanity faces when it is forced to abide by a tradition that does not belong in a world that has progressed to the extent that it