Many of the girls at risk of FGM are under the age of 5, the UN says. Around 230 million women and girls around the world are survivors of the practice.

  • HazardousBanjo
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    4 hours ago

    Whataboutism.

    Both are bad and should be illegal. However FGM is by far typically more brutal, invasive, unsanitary and deadly.

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      It’s not “whatabout” it’s “this too.” That circumcision isn’t brutal, invasive, unsanitary, and deadly just shows how fucked things get when genital mutilation is normalized