Reply #16: i can't accept a practice like female genital mutiliation [View All]

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as just a different cultural practice. the women who have endured such practices who are now speaking out against them have my support.
just as the women of afghanistan have my support...not as a cultural imperialist, but as a human being, and as a woman.

i do think the early american feminist movement was guilty of a kind of cultural imperialism, but i also know that women in afghanistan aren't simply waiting around for american feminists to tell them what to do.

being in solidarity with women fighting their own battles around the world is absolutely the opposite of cultural supremacy. int he meantime: we have much work to do to get out own house in order...i agree with you about that.