The Hell That is Africa
If there is anywhere on earth that would most closely resemble Hell, it would be Africa. In Africa, women especially are treated so horribly it sickens my stomach. From female genital mutilation, to rape of children to ward off AIDS, African beliefs are hopelessly backwards, dangerous and wrong. It may be scores of years before there can be any hope of dispelling these stupid beliefs.
I just found out about another atrocious stupid African belief that is designed to injure women. Breast ironing.
This disgusting practice is discussed in this story here from Reuters.
Millions of Cameroon girls suffer “breast ironing”
YAOUNDE, Cameroon (Reuters) – Worried that her daughters’ budding breasts would expose them to the risk of sexual harassment and even rape, their mother Philomene Moungang started ‘ironing’ the girls’ bosoms with a heated stone.
“I did it to my two girls when they were eight years old. I would take the grinding stone, heat it in the fire and press it hard on the breasts,” Moungang said.
“They cried and said it was painful. But I explained that it was for their own good.”
One in four teen-agers are subjected to the traumatic process by relatives, often hoping to lessen their sexual attractiveness.
However, the practice has many side effects, including severe pain and abscesses, infections, breast cancer, and even the complete disappearance of one or both breasts.
The survey of more than 5,000 girls and women aged between 10 and 82 from throughout Cameroon, published last month, estimated that 4 million women in the central African country have suffered the process.
“You ask me why I did it?” said Moungang. “When I was growing up as a little girl my mother did it to me just as all other women in the village did it to their girl children. So I thought it was just good for me to do to my own children.”
These are disgusting practices by a culture that preys on its own. Half a million people in Cameroon live with HIV/AIDS, and ten percent of those people die each year. Life expectancy in Cameroon? Just 51 years.
Most Africans don’t do things such as breast ironing & media writes about bad things such as Female Genital Mutilation. There are Africans in Cameroon & other African nations who are against these mutilations & it’s wrong to think all Africans do this because of what some do. Female genital mutilation must be stopped. Here in the U.S. & other nations, we sadly have sex change mutilations & they must make it a crime to do sex change mutilations. In Uganda, it is a crime to do sex change mutilations & Uganda has laws against gay/lesbian conduct.
We have no business lecturing Uganda on their laws against gay/lesbian conduct, especially as we have no vested interest there. Ugandans see gay/lesbian conduct the same way as marijuana smoking (Ugandans are right) and their laws against gay/lesbian behavior is the same as their laws against marijuana.
free speech for Blacks UNLESS a Black person says something to offend homosexuals. In Georgia there was a case in which a Black Fire Chief was fired after he wrote a book about Christian views on sex which offended gays. NAACP did not rally for this Black man’s free speech rights because NAACP has become ideological in that homosexuals right to not be offended by ugly truths is more important than a Black man’s free speech right. If this Black man had been a Muslim & wrote a Muslim book on sex which offended homosexuals, don’t think that he would be fired. Reason is because they don’t want to risk Muslims rioting or doing mass shootings as what happened in France.
There is something wrong with a man thinking he is a woman or a woman thinking she is a man. It is mutilation with dangerous hormones. They must abolish this surgical mutilation. 1 would hope that feminists would oppose the mutilation that happened to Chastity Sun Bono as feminists have spoken against Female Genital Mutilation which happens in some nations. Transexuals are mutilations which no Dr. should take part in, yet most feminists are not condemning this female genital and breast mutilation as what happened to Chastity S. Bono where her healthy breasts were mutilated, dangerous hormone shots and her genitals mutilated.