# Cake to raise awareness of female circumcision is disturbing as hell! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 11, 2014, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-to-raise-awareness-of-female-circumcision-is-disturbing-as-hell/692890 "2014-07-11T21:43:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![grude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2014, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-to-raise-awareness-of-female-circumcision-is-disturbing-as-hell/692890/1 "2014-07-11T21:43:30Z")
WARNING: NSFW AND GRAPHIC PHOTOS [spoiler][http://www.newsrescue.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/sweden-black-cake.jpg](http://www.newsrescue.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/sweden-black-cake.jpg) [http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/apr/17/sweden-europe-news[/spoiler]](http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/apr/17/sweden-europe-news%5B/spoiler%5D) :eek:Look forget the racism angle of a cake that looks like a 1930s caricature of a black tribal woman from Africa. Is that not just the most disgusting and disturbing thing you’ve ever seen?! Who would want to eat that?! The “cake” screams when someone cuts off a piece, and the first piece cut off was the clit which was fed to the guy who made it(in the mask). Watch the video of it! This is like an anti-abortion group serving aborted fetus bloody marys, where a fake vagina dribbles out bloody marys with tiny plastic fetuses mixed in. I couldn’t bring myself to eat that, and I’m pretty strong in the stomach. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2014, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-to-raise-awareness-of-female-circumcision-is-disturbing-as-hell/692890/2 "2014-07-11T22:22:36Z")
Wow. WTF. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2014, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-to-raise-awareness-of-female-circumcision-is-disturbing-as-hell/692890/3 "2014-07-11T23:31:10Z")
Dude! How about a NSFW warning next time? ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2014, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-to-raise-awareness-of-female-circumcision-is-disturbing-as-hell/692890/4 "2014-07-12T01:18:08Z")
I’ve included a warning for your photo. Please don’t post things like this without a warning like that. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2014, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-to-raise-awareness-of-female-circumcision-is-disturbing-as-hell/692890/5 "2014-07-12T01:41:04Z")
Wut?? ---
**Author:** ![kayT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayt/32/3633_2.png) [@kayT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayT)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2014, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-to-raise-awareness-of-female-circumcision-is-disturbing-as-hell/692890/6 "2014-07-12T01:44:17Z")
The truly horrifying thing about the pictures and video is that the women (WOMEN!) who are participating are smiling and laughing. WTF indeed. I would have been crying (or vomiting). ---
**Author:** ![grude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2014, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-to-raise-awareness-of-female-circumcision-is-disturbing-as-hell/692890/7 "2014-07-12T01:52:34Z")
> [@Idle\_Thoughts](#): > > I’ve included a warning for your photo. Please don’t post things like this without a warning like that. Sorry, it appeared in mainstream media sites and didn’t contain real nudity or gore so it slipped my mind to add NSFW. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2014, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-to-raise-awareness-of-female-circumcision-is-disturbing-as-hell/692890/8 "2014-07-12T08:42:48Z")
It reminds me of the racist posters and cartoons of the 30s, but the lips should be bigger. The neck rings are a nice touch. I sure hope nobody actually posed for that. ---
**Author:** ![marshmallow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@marshmallow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marshmallow)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2014, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-to-raise-awareness-of-female-circumcision-is-disturbing-as-hell/692890/9 "2014-07-12T08:54:11Z")
> [@kayT](#): > > The truly horrifying thing about the pictures and video is that the women (WOMEN!) who are participating are smiling and laughing. WTF indeed. I would have been crying (or vomiting). Really? It’s a cake. I’d be laughing along with them, it’s hilarious looking. ---
**Author:** ![Steken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@Steken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steken)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2014, 9:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-to-raise-awareness-of-female-circumcision-is-disturbing-as-hell/692890/10 "2014-07-12T09:59:53Z")
The controversy was the point - that’s what the artist was going for. His intention with the piece, he says, was to show [“how whites symbolically consume blacks.”](http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makode_Linde) ---
**Author:** ![Bozuit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/edb3f5/32.png) [@Bozuit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bozuit)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2014, 10:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-to-raise-awareness-of-female-circumcision-is-disturbing-as-hell/692890/11 "2014-07-12T10:01:47Z")
> [@marshmallow](#): > > Really? It’s a cake. I’d be laughing along with them, it’s hilarious looking. It’s certainly amusingly shit. ---
**Author:** ![grude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2014, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-to-raise-awareness-of-female-circumcision-is-disturbing-as-hell/692890/12 "2014-07-12T10:36:24Z")
> [@Steken](#): > > The controversy was the point - that’s what the artist was going for. His intention with the piece, he says, was to show [“how whites symbolically consume blacks.”](http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makode_Linde) That doesn’t make sense for two reasons. 1.White people aren’t kidnapping and forcibly circumcising girls or women in Africa, assuming that is what the cake is protesting. 2.Ugh who the fuck would eat that? Nah man. This whole be so outrageous you get into the media horseshit is stupid. EDIT:Again I don’t care about the racism angle or whether the artist is black or not, I’m saying that is one of the most ghastly nightmare images I’ve ever seen and I can’t believe anyone could eat a piece of it. ---
**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2014, 10:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-to-raise-awareness-of-female-circumcision-is-disturbing-as-hell/692890/13 "2014-07-12T10:39:30Z")
You’re all messing with my (rather shaky) sense of time! 😃 I thought the cake sounded familiar, and yes, it’s a story from 2012. Not that the date makes it any less relevant: it was just a sort of odd time warp. ---
**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2014, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-to-raise-awareness-of-female-circumcision-is-disturbing-as-hell/692890/14 "2014-07-12T10:49:08Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > It reminds me of the racist posters and cartoons of the 30s, but the lips should be bigger. The neck rings are a nice touch. > > I sure hope nobody actually posed for that. I think the neck rings were probably there so that it would not at first be apparent that the head is actually the head of the artist himself, who was squashed into a little box underneath the sculpture, and screamed every time someone put a knife in to the cake. :eek: The artist, Makode Linde, is himself black - well, mixed race, I suppose. White Swedish mother black African father. And I didn’t know this until a minute ago, so I am actually glad this thread appeared, time warp or no. 🙂 [http://africasacountry.com/africa-is-a-country-interview-with-makode-linde/](http://africasacountry.com/africa-is-a-country-interview-with-makode-linde/) ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2014, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-to-raise-awareness-of-female-circumcision-is-disturbing-as-hell/692890/15 "2014-07-12T11:49:05Z")
Horrific imagery aside, was the cake any _good_? I hate the overly sweet frosting piled on wedding cakes. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2014, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-to-raise-awareness-of-female-circumcision-is-disturbing-as-hell/692890/16 "2014-07-12T12:00:37Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Horrific imagery aside, was the cake any _good_? I hate the overly sweet frosting piled on wedding cakes. Is there any kind of cake that isn’t overly sweet? A nice savory herb-garlic frosting perhaps? ---
**Author:** ![Steken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@Steken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steken)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2014, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-to-raise-awareness-of-female-circumcision-is-disturbing-as-hell/692890/17 "2014-07-12T12:00:53Z")
> [@grude](#): > > That doesn’t make sense for two reasons. > > 1.White people aren’t kidnapping and forcibly circumcising girls or women in Africa, assuming that is what the cake is protesting. > > 2.Ugh who the fuck would eat that? Nah man. This whole be so outrageous you get into the media horseshit is stupid. > > EDIT:Again I don’t care about the racism angle or whether the artist is black or not, I’m saying that is one of the most ghastly nightmare images I’ve ever seen and I can’t believe anyone could eat a piece of it. The point seems to have been to a) draw attention to the artist, and b) bring about a racism ruckus in the media. That the cake was wildly off-topic, so to speak - as you correctly note, circumcision isn’t something whites do to blacks - is irrelevant to points a) and b). But having said all that - yes, it is indeed an incredibly ghastly image! ---
**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2014, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-to-raise-awareness-of-female-circumcision-is-disturbing-as-hell/692890/18 "2014-07-12T12:05:23Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Horrific imagery aside, was the cake any _good_? I hate the overly sweet frosting piled on wedding cakes. Well, given that a lot of the cake was black in colour, that sounds like a GREAT excuse to include tons of chocolate (not that an excuse should be needed), so it would have to be a good cake. And if the bloody bits included strawberries, or preferably raspberries … I am getting hungry now and I have no cake. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Steken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@Steken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steken)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2014, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-to-raise-awareness-of-female-circumcision-is-disturbing-as-hell/692890/19 "2014-07-12T12:12:27Z")
> [@Celyn](#): > > Well, given that a lot of the cake was black in colour, that sounds like a GREAT excuse to include tons of chocolate This is Sweden. The black stuff would have to be liquorice. ---
**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2014, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-to-raise-awareness-of-female-circumcision-is-disturbing-as-hell/692890/20 "2014-07-12T12:57:48Z")
Oh. ☹ I mean, liquorice is all very well, but not compared to chocolate. ☹ [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-to-raise-awareness-of-female-circumcision-is-disturbing-as-hell/692890.md?page=2)