Belindi wrote: ↑November 8th, 2020, 7:48 am
Sculptor1 wrote: ↑November 8th, 2020, 7:25 am
That is possibly the most ansurd and bigoted thing you have said in a long while.
Greta is right . There is plenty of authentic social anthropology relating to for instance the Poro secret society of the Temne and Mende peoples of Sierra Leone. The secret society initiates boys into adult life and is vastly important for continuation of societal governance and practice. Psychologically, rituals help people to cooperate.
There is also a secret society for girls' initiation.
Indeed there is, the Bondo secret society that similarly initiates girls into adult life and is just as important, showing that Greta is painting the wrong picture. Just as boys suffer harsh treatment so do girls in corresponding rituals:
"When you are operated on, you are completely undressed and sat firmly on a stone, legs open and face turned upwards. The operation was painful, as a large part of my vagina was cut. Those women who operate use the same knife and the same razor on all the girls. Later, they use the same knife to clean the parts badly operated on.
When a girl is operated on, it is
completely forbidden to show cowardice and if she shows signs of fear, the people leave the operation place immediately. The father, the mother and the brothers of the girl carry knives and sticks and at the least sign of cowardice, they stab or beat her all over.
When I was operated on, my father refused to accompany me, as he feared that I would not bear it. My mother and the other family who accompanied me covered me with pearls after the operation. One of the fifteen girls operated on with us did not remain firm enough during the operation. She blinked her eyes and the people ran away shouting, even the woman operating. They abandoned us until midday when the women who operate came back to clean the parts of the vagina that had been left. Her mother wanted to hang herself, but the people stopped her and took her away from the tree in which she had climbed. Her older sisters, who had been operated on before, had been brave and had not shown signs of weakness. She was the last born in the family. Until now, she has not married, as
no man would want to marry a girl who has not been brave during the operation. She has children by different men, as no man will accept her as a legal wife.
She is the laughing stock of the community."
http://underatree.overblog.com/pokot-beauty
You will only find this kind of testimony on the net, no video due to Western double standards addressed in this topic but here you can see what is expected of bravery with a boy and it is no different for a girl:
http://www.circumstitions.com/Images/vi ... deglov.mp4
I have been banned from Twitter after completely false but sustained accusations of pedophilia for posting a link to a Youtube video of a neonatal circumcision from around half a century ago. There are powerful forces enforcing cultural norms and Western culture is no different.