Feminists Abandon Women-Again

They're there over a 50 cent an hour difference between men and women's wages, but when it comes to something like civil rights...not so much.

Can't sweat the small stuff you know?

Academia's fixation on cultural sensitivity is changing the debate around female genital mutilation, with a growing number of professors and women's rights activists becoming hesitant to condemn the practice.

That's bad enough. "Hesitant to condemn" means they have to think long and hard before condemning non-consentual mutilation of women...by men. But it gets worse.

Where feminists rallied against the operation from the pages of Ms. magazine in the 1970s, today's critics are infinitely more cautious, with most suggesting that the Western world butt out until Muslim African communities are ready to reconsider what they are doing to their daughters.
The shift in attitudes about the practice-- which in the worst of cases involves the carving out of a woman's clitoris and inner labia and can cause lifelong urinary tract infections, sterility and even death -- comes at a time when high-profile victims of the operation such as writer Ayaan Hirsi Ali and model Waris Dirie, both Somalis, have launched very public campaigns against the practice.
"There are good reasons within the society for the operation to continue, but these are cultural reasons. They are not scientific ones," says Prof. Boddy, author of Civilizing Women: British Crusades in Colonial Sudan.

"There are good reasons for it to continue." Like what? Please, enlighten us?

Where once feminists railed against every act of the patriarchy...now they defend the patriarchy is truly oppressive women in ways beyond what the feminists ever complained about.

Remember that the next time a feminist talks about inequality.