dagblog - Comments for "Female Genital Mutilation plummets in Africa" http://dagblog.com/link/female-genital-mutilation-plummets-africa-26688 Comments for "Female Genital Mutilation plummets in Africa" en Hmmm, not sure who believes http://dagblog.com/comment/261214#comment-261214 <a id="comment-261214"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/comment/261196#comment-261196">ok good, one down but many</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Hmmm, not sure who believes we're all equal now, or that villages disappeared, but no, I didn't know the widow custom was so widespread. A wonder they don't do it in the Bible Belt.</p> </div></div></div> Wed, 07 Nov 2018 19:50:49 +0000 PeraclesPlease comment 261214 at http://dagblog.com ok good, one down but many http://dagblog.com/comment/261196#comment-261196 <a id="comment-261196"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/link/female-genital-mutilation-plummets-africa-26688">Female Genital Mutilation plummets in Africa</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>ok good, one down but many more brutal sexist traditions<a href="https://www.pri.org/stories/2018-10-23/these-kenyan-widows-are-fighting-against-sexual-cleansing"> like this one </a>to go in much of rural Africa. I've saved that article because it puts things in perspective along the lines of country mouse vs. city mouse cultural divide problems worldwide. As in: there but for the grace of god I might have been born. Goes for India too. We've gone overboard with the global this way: our entertainment media depicts the upper classes of other cultures that are globally connected, in an attempt to propagandize that "we are all equal now", doesn't show the misery and backwardness  that still exists in many rural areas enough. We don't see them in the media and we don't meet them in person because they are not the ones immigrating to other countries.</p> </div></div></div> Wed, 07 Nov 2018 16:20:17 +0000 artappraiser comment 261196 at http://dagblog.com