Queen Titania
Senator
Was I? I've forgot ---------------- Darling, this is not a subject I have taken all that much notice of in the past - it is an uncomfortable one and I am really quite a coward - even when I do come to looking at unpleasant, to me, subjects it has usually been a very slow path toward me actually turning the first page - bringing myself to look into it. Once on the trail I'm OK usually ---------I'm sorry. I skimmed over the fact that you weren't talking about your "researcher". You were talking about someone else's "research" around your "researcher".
Of this, as with most, at first I heard only of the most extreme forms and even those I realized later were exaggerated, so of course my reaction was that it was horrible ----------- then I realized there are many forms of FGM, still I was worried by the problems it was presenting us with, that we must now deal with, now that it was within our own societies -
Then I began to hear more and more of girls in the US having pussy enhancement procedures, being in the business I was in, I was already aware of genital piercings, and my first thoughts were in context with the influences of hip hop and such like on the youth of today - so still my opinion was emotive and uninformed, emotive as in against a foreign practice as an unknown, unfamiliar - and they were absolutely negative about FGM -
I get papers from this particular Researcher sent to me, I like the department and him - I like the questions he asks, I don't read them all but this one I did because it came at a time I, myself, had questioned the effects of FGM in connection with some African nurses - here it is, a turning point in my thoughts on FGM - not that I like it any better than I ever did but that I understand it better than I did as well as the, for want of a better word, racist aspects of our hypocricy through limited knowledge of and about it. Me too --------------
It really is worth a read - open mind my dear, open mind - a difficult discipline