Today's Women's Vision (pp. 17 of The New Vision)

I am surprised that the articel on female genital circumcision is published including a figure with three drawings of vaginas in colour.

Unfortunately, the webpage of The New Vision is still not accessible, otherwise I would have posted a link and cited the text. But it can easily summarised: Anyboday who follows "usual" news "in the west" learns nothing new but is just surprised about the almost indifferent way this ferocity is described and the shyness of how it is criticised.

It is still a cultural event in this part of the world, which girls and young women have to suffer their rest of their lifes from. To avoid that the girls "run into the anti-FGM crusaders" (I would love to join those crusaders.), they are dragged into the torture chambers without the usual merry-making. In addition to the statement that this cruelty is a common problem, which is said to affect 28 African countries, a former minister for disaster preparedness provides the solution of how this society's cruel streak could be minimised: education.

Although I recently suggested some Kant, in this case the Old Testament's "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth" might be more appropriate. Or in order to attract suspicion from the Media Council or the Ministry of Information: "An Penis for a Vagina, a Glans for a Clitoris" - oh this might also raise some Christian fundamentals' eyebrows.