# 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:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2014, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-to-raise-awareness-of-female-circumcision-is-disturbing-as-hell/692890/21 "2014-07-12T13:31:38Z")
> [@Idle\_Thoughts](#): > > I’ve included a warning for your photo. Please don’t post things like this without a warning like that. And a spoiler box so it complies with the two-click rule. ---
**Author:** ![blindboyard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blindboyard/32/2833_2.png) [@blindboyard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blindboyard)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2014, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-to-raise-awareness-of-female-circumcision-is-disturbing-as-hell/692890/22 "2014-07-12T17:04:40Z")
Cake is good. It’s just a pity it wasn’t about male circumcision so the eaters could be cockmunchers. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2014, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-to-raise-awareness-of-female-circumcision-is-disturbing-as-hell/692890/23 "2014-07-12T17:15:21Z")
Reported to Cake Wrecks. ---
**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, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-to-raise-awareness-of-female-circumcision-is-disturbing-as-hell/692890/24 "2014-07-12T18:00:09Z")
> [@Idle\_Thoughts](#): > > I’ve included a warning for your photo. Please don’t post things like this without a warning like that. > [@twickster](#): > > And a spoiler box so it complies with the two-click rule. Really? For the world’s least realistic cake? ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2014, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-to-raise-awareness-of-female-circumcision-is-disturbing-as-hell/692890/25 "2014-07-12T19:41:00Z")
You know, without the clown make-up, and the neck rings, the figure itself actually looks a lot like the Venus of Willendorf, which was excavated in **Austria** in 1908. ---
**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, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-to-raise-awareness-of-female-circumcision-is-disturbing-as-hell/692890/26 "2014-07-12T20:39:20Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > You know, without the clown make-up, and the neck rings, the figure itself actually looks a lot like the Venus of Willendorf, which was excavated in **Austria** in 1908. Not a coincidence. [The work was indeed based on the Venus of Willendorf](http://africasacountry.com/africa-is-a-country-interview-with-makode-linde/): > [@](#): > > Since the cake was to go on display in a museum, he [the artist] wanted to work with something from the Eurocentric discipline of Art History, and so chose the body of the ultimate canonical classic, Venus from Willendorf, the supposed origin of a story that has always excluded African or African-bodied voices. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2014, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-to-raise-awareness-of-female-circumcision-is-disturbing-as-hell/692890/27 "2014-07-12T20:47:12Z")
Performance art FAIL. ---
**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 12, 2014, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-to-raise-awareness-of-female-circumcision-is-disturbing-as-hell/692890/28 "2014-07-12T22:23:33Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > Performance art FAIL. Sort of reminded me of the character named [Vulva](http://spaced.wikia.com/wiki/Vulva)in _Spaced_ ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2014, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-to-raise-awareness-of-female-circumcision-is-disturbing-as-hell/692890/29 "2014-07-12T22:32:27Z")
> [@Steken](#): > > Not a coincidence. [The work was indeed based on the Venus of Willendorf](http://africasacountry.com/africa-is-a-country-interview-with-makode-linde/): Wow, fraught with subtle harkenings from our collective conscious. Still, I guess I’d prefer cake to expired Spaghetti-Os (if anyone remembers “Interior Semiotics”). ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2014, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-to-raise-awareness-of-female-circumcision-is-disturbing-as-hell/692890/30 "2014-07-12T22:40:27Z")
> [@Slithy\_Tove](#): > > Wow, fraught with subtle harkenings from our collective conscious. Yeah, “subtle” was the first word that came to my mind as well. ---
**Author:** ![JKilez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e5b9ba/32.png) [@JKilez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKilez)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2014, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-to-raise-awareness-of-female-circumcision-is-disturbing-as-hell/692890/31 "2014-07-12T23:13:24Z")
> [@grude](#): > > 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 _so_ want to find fetus-shaped ice cube molds now. 😃 And, yeah, that cake was certainly a disturbing piece of performance art. The photos made it look like it was a racist caricature, but I thought it worked as a live piece. ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2014, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-to-raise-awareness-of-female-circumcision-is-disturbing-as-hell/692890/32 "2014-07-13T05:44:08Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > Performance art FAIL. Meh, it’s no worse than [Flag Fuck (w/ Beef) #17B](http://www.theonion.com/articles/performance-artist-shocks-us-out-of-apathetic-stup,251/). And that wasn’t even real. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-to-raise-awareness-of-female-circumcision-is-disturbing-as-hell/692890.md?page=1)