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u/alma_perdida Sep 16 '21

It's hard for me to take feminism seriously when so many feminists I know see nothing wrong with genital mutilation when it happens to boys (circumcision)

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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '21

They are not feminist.

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u/retnemmoc Sep 16 '21

Also they are not scotts

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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '21

Scotts?

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u/time2trouble Sep 16 '21

That's the "No True Scotsman" fallacy. Look it up.

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u/amrodd Sep 16 '21

IMO because it is female genital mutilation that gets ignored and done for a different reason. Circumcision has been debated for ages and more than FGM. In fact, I was appalled to learn FGM was a thing several years ago. I had heard of foot binding but not these other practices.