When it comes to ancient primitive customs, I admit to supporting the whole Eskimo “old people on ice floes” thing…
“She said that women should have the right to undergo genital mutilation as a form of “self-decoration” and posed the question: “If an Ohio punk has the right to have her genitalia operated on, why has not the Somali woman the same right?”
This is the thinking Robin Hobb/Megan Lindholm satirized in her chilling Nebula nominated story, “Cut,” which I highly recommend as a look at what will be the “in-thing” in a few years. A&E probably has a series in the works as I write this.
