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Breasts should be outlawed!

by Tryan Hartill

Why do it?

“You ask me why I did it?” said Moungang. “When I was growing up as a little girl my mother did it to me just as all other women in the village did it to their girl children. So I thought it was just good for me to do to my own children.”

But at least she stopped:

Moungang said she stopped ironing her daughters’ breasts after one girl developed blisters and abscesses. “I took her to the hospital and the doctor scolded me and advised never to do it again because it could ruin my daughter,” she said.
“When Mariane married and delivered her first baby, it took a long time—about a month—for her breasts to start producing milk and the child almost died. I was told it was because I had ironed her breasts. I was frightened.”

Yikes!

Another story from 14 year old Amelia:

Her breasts started developing when she was 9. Her elder sister decided to massage them every evening with a towel soaked in hot water.
“This was very painful, and every evening before I slept, she would put a big elastic belt well fastened round my chest to flatten my breasts.”
“Six months later the flesh that held my breasts was already weak. At 10, I already had fallen breasts and each time I undress I’m ashamed and it is a big complex.”

And now for the worst news we go to the polls:

Nevertheless, support for and opposition to the tradition remains evenly balanced. According to the survey, 39 percent of women opposed it, while 41 percent expressed support and 26 percent were indifferent.

Jul 9, 11:49 am | Tryan Hartill
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10 comments on this article (post your own)

1 On Jul 9, 12:50 pm, Walter Richards wrote:

Not much I can really say about this appalling practice … and those who favor it … without Lee calling me a racist.

2 On Jul 9, 01:27 pm, Patrick McGee wrote:

You’re gonna get creamed on this one buddy!

3 On Jul 9, 08:16 pm, Lee wrote:

The rape and forced prostitution stories of defenseless children are so sad.

Sometimes it makes a mother crazy and desparate and the craziness just gets passed down.

I don’t think it’s about race. Just poverty, war and the oppression that goes along with it.

Where did you find this interview?

4 On Jul 9, 08:37 pm, Tryan Hartill wrote:

CNN

I have a link to it on the front page of the article.

I think it’s just lack of education more than anything, but it seems common sense would take over and even though it is a “norm”.

How can mothers even go through with it, is what I want to know.

5 On Jul 10, 09:06 am, Walter Richards wrote:

To quote Tevya … TRADITION!

The same reason some Japanese mothers still “bind” their daughters’ feet – despite knowing how crippling it is.

Thus proving education is only part of the answer. The other part is having their society “shame” those who continue the practice.

6 On Jul 10, 12:11 pm, Lee wrote:

——
Saddistic imperialists should keep their hands off. Female NATO super-women forces should go in and do some ironing, binding and sawing on other members of human bodies that are actually the the instruments of rape.

For now

people in this country are “educated” into thinking war torn destabilized societies “need to be educated and shamed?” You guys do know what white imperialists do to Africa, and what dictators they prop up. If any good is done it isNOT done in America’s name. Only individual philanthropists. America’s foreign policy SUCK’S BIGTIME.

Edumacated Amerkans set Chimpy loose on the world and some of them are still Smug.

(present company excluded, right)

7 On Jul 10, 04:29 pm, Carrie Bartoldus wrote:

The same kind of “tradition” that allows untold multitudes in the USA to mutilate their baby boys at birth by severing the foreskin of their genital appendage in a practice which began as a way to stop the males from the practice of masturbation, then was declared as a way to keep the penis clean but now has no benefit aside from following tradition so as to “not embarass him in front of his friends in the shower room”?

No Harm http://www.noharmm.org/geography.htm

8 On Jul 10, 06:05 pm, Tryan Hartill wrote:

Good point Carrie.

Although I see it as somewhat similar, but doing something to a newborn it a bit different in my mind than a 10 year old. This reminds me of puppies. My dad just cut part of the tails off some newborn puppies. And it is just “what you do”, if someone did that to a full grown dog it would be borderline animal abuse.

9 On Jul 11, 06:53 am, Walter Richards wrote:

... binding and sawing on other members of human bodies that are actually the the instruments of rape.

I used to agree with that sentiment. However, psychiatrists say rape has more to do with “terror/power” than with sexual gratification. Thus, (IMO) castration would only force them to find other ways to exert that “terror/power” on others. IIRC, this has been proven by studies of convicted rapists/pedophiles who were chemically castrated.

As such, I think rapists/pedophiles should be killed … and all their property given to the victim(s).

10 On Jul 11, 04:32 pm, Lee wrote:

The use of family values as a political term became widespread after a 1992 speech by Vice President Dan Quayle that attributed the Los Angeles riots to a breakdown of family values. Quayle specifically blamed the violence in L.A. as stemming from a decay of moral values and family structure in American society.
———Rodney King -”Can’t we just get along?”

Remember when the dirty LA cops beat up Rodney King, someone videotaped it and it was played on TV? “Family Values” was the far reichs response. VP Quayle said characters like Candice Bergens “Murphy Brown” was the reason people were rioting in LA. (Not the beating of Rodney King?)

The reich doesn’t like riots they don’t incite, I guess

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