i'm struck by the dichotomy in our society where "bobbit" has become slang yet most people don't know that 100 to 140 million girls and women worldwide are victims of female genital mutilation. and no, i don't mean this, i mean this:
so i wasn't surprised, tho i was disheartened, to read this in salon.com's broadsheet:
this story ran mostly in area media. however, this story made national coverage (the following quote from CBS):
i guess domestic violence cases where women are savagely beaten--yes, even DOWN THERE--are a dime a million and barely newsworthy, whereas when a man suffers punishment by adhesive for his cheating ways and it gets page after page on google (as the broadsheet piece pointed out).
peshkwe, while i certainly agree with you, maybe your assertions of the greatness of pussy isn't one that's shared by enough people in this world, eh? at least the difference in news coverage re these stories plus the general acceptance of feminizing adjectives as insults would indicate so.
sidenote 1: those who are interested in the "ending" of the bobbit story will find the wikipedia entry compelling.
sidenote 2: i am gratified about the comments left by readers of the kansas story, who vastly support the victim and decry the defense's claim that her injuries were caused by her falling on the bed rail.
sidenote 3: current tv's documentary of female genital mutilation. a song about picking ripe mangos is sung during the ceremony (thankfully, a reenactment and not an actual one) -- the mango being a metaphor for the young girl's clitoris, about to be cut off.
Female genital mutilation comprises all procedures that involve partial or total removal of the external female genitalia, or other injury to the female genital organs for non-medical reasons.
You've probably heard by now about the trial of Matthew Jaeger going on in Lawrence, Kansas. That is, if you live in or near Lawrence, Kansas.
Jaeger, 24 -- said to have a history of physically and sexually abusing his former girlfriend -- is accused of breaking into her apartment in October 2007 and attacking and kidnapping her after finding her with another man. (Warning: very gory details ahead.) Jurors in the trial recently viewed an interview with the accuser, 23, videotaped from her hospital bed several days after the incident. On the tape, the woman "tells police that Jaeger choked her until she passed out and that when she regained consciousness, she was bleeding profusely from her vagina," the Lawrence Journal-World reported. "I don't recognize myself down where he hurt me. It's a part of myself I can no longer recognize. It doesn't look like me. It looks like it's been mutated and deformed."
Jaeger, 24 -- said to have a history of physically and sexually abusing his former girlfriend -- is accused of breaking into her apartment in October 2007 and attacking and kidnapping her after finding her with another man. (Warning: very gory details ahead.) Jurors in the trial recently viewed an interview with the accuser, 23, videotaped from her hospital bed several days after the incident. On the tape, the woman "tells police that Jaeger choked her until she passed out and that when she regained consciousness, she was bleeding profusely from her vagina," the Lawrence Journal-World reported. "I don't recognize myself down where he hurt me. It's a part of myself I can no longer recognize. It doesn't look like me. It looks like it's been mutated and deformed."
STOCKBRIDGE, Wis. (CBS/AP) Four Wisconsin women are accused of tying up a married man and gluing his penis to his stomach after allegedly finding out he was romantically involved with each of them.
peshkwe, while i certainly agree with you, maybe your assertions of the greatness of pussy isn't one that's shared by enough people in this world, eh? at least the difference in news coverage re these stories plus the general acceptance of feminizing adjectives as insults would indicate so.
sidenote 1: those who are interested in the "ending" of the bobbit story will find the wikipedia entry compelling.
sidenote 2: i am gratified about the comments left by readers of the kansas story, who vastly support the victim and decry the defense's claim that her injuries were caused by her falling on the bed rail.
sidenote 3: current tv's documentary of female genital mutilation. a song about picking ripe mangos is sung during the ceremony (thankfully, a reenactment and not an actual one) -- the mango being a metaphor for the young girl's clitoris, about to be cut off.
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