Female Circumcision Reader Response

manoeuver 1 Jennifer Conn Professor Michael Hickman GWRTC 103 Sect. 61 15 April 2013 Reader reception 3 Though Meyerhardt states that the opening account on womanish circumcision trainmed ridiculous, I personally found it far to a greater extent disturbing. I was actually shocked and disgusted while reading this piece, as I am sure my classmates were as well. The small opening left over(p) for urination and period of time . . . held open by a single piece of straw which is left there during the healing process (1) forced me to feel that is an unbelievably unnatural, dehumanizing practice. I was passing curious about what cultural beliefs supported this practice.When coming to the supposed(a) health reasons and seeing how flawed and inaccurate they all were, I was uneffective to keep an open mind or continue trying to realize this practice. The idea of looking at each others privates to see who had the smallest opening (2) struck me in a large way. This social function t hat is done for society, for a future husband, and for acceptance, seems to take away from the woman. It is as if her remains does not truly belong to her. I thought it was interesting and in-chief(postnominal) for the author to include the effect of cultural relativism on the reader.I know that my leave out of experience and understanding of the topic, as well as the way of support influences my opinion towards the procedure. Throughout the piece, I was unable(p) change my perception of womanish circumcision as horrid. Though she seemed to go back and forth in the split second half of the essay, the author seemed to have bias as well. I could see the vague connection to glossiness dominating a womans view and treatment of her body. In this way, the procedure seems similar to eat disorders in America. In fact, eating disorders come across as far more deadly.However, I feel that the connection was weak and overdramatized especially when the author stated, in America, being f at and ugly, for some, is a fate worse than death(3). If this was true, and our culture was as consistent with our beliefs, then we would not have obesity grade as high as they are today. The statement that plastic surgery in America by trained professionals causes as much unhinge as midwives using whatever is lying around a razor, a knife, a broken bottle (3) is absurd. Safe, comfortable, controlled cosmetic surgery is not widespread, made by someones own will, and often looked down upon.The fact that eating disorders are not accepted in our society destroys this analogy to effeminate person circumcision. Another poor analogy attempted by Meyerhardt can be found in the beginning of the piece. The author connects children no longer qualification funny faces due to slight unjustified fear to the cutting discharge of female genitalia. Though the thought of looking odd and malformed scare us enough to stop in both circumstances, the examples are extremely different. Funny faces are not natural, and little is required to stop do them. Possessing female genitalia is natural however, and the removal of it is dangerous.This analogy downplays the extremity of female circumcision, and does not work. This piece was interesting, and informative on a topic I had known nothing about. For many reasons, it was my impulse to reject the idea of female circumcision and find it horrifying. There seemed to be no truly justified debate for why it is still happening, aside from traditional. Though the author attempted to recognise opposing views, I found them very weak and confusing. I was unable to connect this procedure with concepts in American life, or accept the vague, unrealistic, positively charged ending that the author provided.