<>Week 2-Reflection<>

I had a very interesting discussion with my mother while talking to her about the book. I kept telling her how I was shocked at why a mother would put her daughter through so much pain in order to ensure her chastity. A five-year-old is unable to make decisions for herself, and therefore trusts her mother to protect her. Why wouldn’t a mother take this duty to the ultimate level and wish to protect her daughter from such an invasive painful procedure?
I understand that being chaste when a married is an important value, and that doesn’t just go for Muslims. However it does seem quite extreme to mutilate the genitals of a very young female in order ensure her purity.
I just read an article in Seventeen about a girl, now 19, who was reading about FGM for a college class and was shocked at what some cultures would do in order to make the female as pure as possible. Later, she found out that when she was 6 years old, she had been a victim of FGM. She felt extremely violated because of her inability to speak out against it because of her young age. It is now her mission to help convince her generation of what a wrong it is to do to one’s daughter and to prevent it from being allowed to future generations. Making it illegal would just cause FGM to be more of an underground operation, so prevention is key.

All very interesting. Very very interesting.