# Genital mutilation of young girls. But it's a religious thing! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 23, 2017, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/genital-mutilation-of-young-girls-but-its-a-religious-thing/785057 "2017-04-23T11:44:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 307
**Author:** ![Blalron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/35a633/32.png) [@Blalron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blalron)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2018, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/genital-mutilation-of-young-girls-but-its-a-religious-thing/785057/307 "2018-11-30T23:13:00Z")
> [@SlackerInc](#): > > I think there is an underlying, not-quite-explicitly-acknowledged subtext here that goes something like this: > > “Women have suffered for millennia under rape culture, harassment, and neglect of—or repression of—female sexuality. To pile forcible cutting of young girls’ genitals on top of all that is just unacceptable. It’s ‘punching down’. But for men to take a hit below the belt? That’s ‘punching up’, and you know what? Fuck it, I’m not going to lose any sleep over it.” > > :dubious: That’s the problem with identity politics gone amok. Instead of viewing people as individuals, they view people as members of either the Oppressed or the Dominator classes. In that framework, men as a class dominate women as a class. Whites as a class dominate People of Color. This has been going on for too long, and the tables need to be turned. There are some on the Left that don’t want true equality. They want revenge. A world where the social hierarchy is inverted, and men (especially white men) are on the bottom of the hierarchy instead of on the top. Thus the suffering of men is considered completely unworthy of their attention. Men have had it too good for thousands of years, so fuck it. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/genital-mutilation-of-young-girls-but-its-a-religious-thing/785057)._