[irahul]

> you will be called out on racism, possibly with good reasons

Unless you assume all races/cultures are at the epitome of human development, there has to be changes, which will be unpleasant - that's how humans develop. What would be the "possibly good reasons" for being called out on racism? Just because it is part of some culture/race doesn't grant it legibility.

[LaGrange]

Only it has absolutely nothing to do with race. Culture, sure, to some extent, but it's not like the western cultures treat women well -- and if a TV show just focuses on FGM it does start sound like a conspicuously neat excuse to bash certain races, most of whom would never want to have anything to do with that crap, at the same time providing men with a neat way of dismissing their own sexism as "not proper sexism".

So yeah, unless it's either a victim or an established feminist who was doing both this and intersectionality of gender and race oppression advocacy, I will suspect bringing up FGM is just a racist way to silence feminist.

[irahul]

> but it's not like the western cultures treat women well

It doesn't make any difference - at all. If I am a wife beater, that doesn't validate your wife beating.

> and if a TV show just focuses on FGM

I missed the part where anyone mentioned media exclusively focused on FGM.

> neat excuse to bash certain races,

Say I start a TV show whose sole purpose is to bash a certain race which does FGM. I have no altruistic motives. I am driven by hate.

So fucking what? How does any of it make FGM sacred, so much as anyone saying something against it is a racist?

> at the same time providing men with a neat way of dismissing their own sexism as "not proper sexism".

Good thing that there are more than 1 bullet points for defining sexism. Besides, I have never seen anyone come up with an excuse that a certain tribe in a different part of the world treats their wives as a commodity, hence I can ask you to make a sandwich and that won't be sexism. If there are people who make this argument, they would already be doing it. Things worse than FGM exist in different parts of world. Those things didn't give anyone excuse for their sexism - FGM won't either. Your concerns are imaginary.

> unless it's either a victim or an established feminist who was doing both this and intersectionality of gender and race oppression advocacy, I will suspect bringing up FGM is just a racist way to silence feminist.

That is ridiculous. Unless you were among the civilians bombed by the drone, I will suspect this is your excuse for bashing US. See how absurd that is? And for the third time, my dishonesty doesn't automatically make you genuine.