PRIME DIRECTIVE, SHMIME SHMIRECTIVE

Yeah, I know, but I just get the feeling that when the aliens show up and want us to take them to our leader, I hope that by that time, the people of Earth will be done with stuff like this.

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, Feb. 5 — Some of the activists who gathered here in the Ethiopian capital today to combat the traditional practice of genital cutting had had the procedure performed on them when they were girls. Others, before learning of the serious health risks, had allowed their daughters to undergo the painful rite, which is steeped in tradition and myth.

But whether they knew the practice personally or not, the women from across Africa who attended an international conference on genital cutting said that far more had to be done to end what they consider female genital mutilation.

To lend urgency to the campaign, the first ladies of Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Mali and Guinea all condemned the cutting of young girls, which is practiced in 28 countries in Africa and the Middle East. Chantal Campaoré, married to Burkina Faso's president, called female genital cutting "the most widespread and deadly of all violence victimizing women and girls in Africa."

I am, and shall ever be, pro-vulva. Hell, I drive a Vulva! Oh, wait, that's Volvo. It's a safe car!

Anyway, where was I? I wonder why we never hear about this stuff from American Jesus conservatives. Gee, maybe because with a clitoris comes pleasure, and as we all know, Christian conservatives are anti-pleasure?* So what if girls have to go through excruciating, traumatic pain, and certainly risk complications, infections and death? We have an agenda to satisfy!

Just in general, if I'm reading something, and it causes my legs to cross uncomfortably, then something needs to change.

*- if you think this argument is a strawman, please f--- off, thanks!