Not really a “fuck Today” but a “fuck this.” I was talking with a group about sponsoring a talk on campus about female genital mutilation. It’s a difficult topic anyway, but we have a number of women students from the region, and I wanted to make sure we were careful.
Afterwards a male colleague from an area of the world where this is practiced came to my office to tell me that I “didn’t really understand” and that this was a “long, beautiful cultural tradition” and an “important rite of passage” that I had no right, as an outsider, to criticize. All I could say was “get out of my office right now.” I will never be able to look at him the same way again, nor be able to respect him. But I’ll be forced to work with him for a long time to come. And those women students . . . FFS
I was actually thinking that he should have to be circumcised by some of the women who had it done to them. No anesthetic and, I think that in many places it’s done with broken glass. After all, tradition.
It still wouldn’t be as traumatic, scarring, or medically dangerous as what is done to the girls, but I agree with you that it would be a start at least.
“ Photos that were subsequently taken down from the athletics department’s Facebook page showed students in underclothing giving lap dances to faculty and staff, including Hazard High School Principal Donald “Happy” Mobelini, who is also mayor of the Perry County city.”
Thank god they weren’t trans. That would have been a real problem.
Well, if they do what they do in FGM, they’ll take way more than just the foreskin… so I think he’d be a bit shorter, and way less likely to call it beautiful.
They’ve been doing “boys in drag” since the 1970s.
Apparently the entire Homecoming Week was some kind of bad-judgment shitshow. From the Louisville Courier-Journal
Other photos on the athletics page that also were later taken down showed female students dressed up in “Hooters” outfits and students and staff appearing to paddle one another.
And more on the Mayor/Principal:
Mobelini was previously the subject of an investigation in 2008, when photos posted to Facebook showed him driving while his daughter and four of her teenage friends drank alcohol and smoked cigarettes in the vehicle.
The principal also came under scrutiny earlier in 2008, according to the Herald-Leader, when police charged 12 underage students with alcohol intoxication after they were found drinking on the Hazard High School football field.
Mobelini reportedly was with the students about 30 minutes before Hazard police arrived at the football field and found hard liquor and beer, but he said the students had not been drinking when he was still there.
Three couples filed wrongful death lawsuits against a Mobile fertility clinic and Mobile Infirmary Medical Center after they claimed a hospital patient allegedly broke into Mobile Infirmary’s freezer and dropped frozen embryos.
