'Breast ironing' to stunt girls' growth widespread

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http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/africa/07/07/cameroon.breastironing.reut/index.html

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Friday, 7 July 2006 17:51 (twenty years ago)

man, that is just one of the saddest things I've ever read.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Friday, 7 July 2006 17:55 (twenty years ago)

yeah where's the push to cut down on rape and sexual abuse to begin with?

― Ms. Misery TX (MissMiseryTX), Friday, 7 July 2006 17:56 (twenty years ago)

So disturbing. I did a lot of reading on Female Genital Mutilation in college and yikes - nightmares. This fits right in, sadly.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Friday, 7 July 2006 17:58 (twenty years ago)

I read this first in a "news of the wacky"-tpe column and got so pissed, so fucking pissed because 1. it is patently awful and 2. it does not belong juxtaposed with 'guy creates world's biggest bubble pipe' or somesuch.

― Abbott (Abbott), Friday, 7 July 2006 18:00 (twenty years ago)

holly crap
thats mutilation
thats horrible

― panda may (panda_may), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 06:22 (twenty years ago)

Interestingly though, if I may get all Momusian for a sec - apart from it being forced upon children, this isnt much different from women here getting breast implants for the opposite result (to attract sexual attention). It too is painful, and can end up mutilating the woman.

But it isnt forced onto kids, which I suppose is more the point perhaps.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 06:36 (twenty years ago)

perhaps?

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 09:46 (twenty years ago)

This seems like shoddy reporting:

The practice is most common in the Christian and animist South of the country, rather than in the Muslim North and Far North provinces, where only 10 percent of women are affected.

So, is religious background causal? Or not? Who knows?

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 09:47 (twenty years ago)

I think that is supposed to be a dig at the reading audience that falls into the set created by the intersection of the bigoted segment and the fundie Christian segment.

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 10:13 (twenty years ago)

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