[lit-ideas] Re: A Cavalier Attitude to Life
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 00:25:36 EDT
My third and last today.
Thanks to Sue Trevor for the info. I find there are three types of FGM
(Female Genital mutilation).
-- as per below, from an online link.
It may be interesting to consider 'cavalier' as applied to woman. Oddly,
in a bar in Buenos Aires, where
DAMES CAVALIERS
written on the doors to toilets indicate the gender ("damas" vs.
"caballeros"), someone crossed out 'cavalier' and wrote "caballo" -- i.e.
horse.
And then, Queen Victoria could not ride a horse.
Of course the reason why cavaliers (i.e. uncuts, in school slang) were
called thus was that their paraphernalic hats do resemble -- in the view of a
roundhead, I presume -- the uncut prepuce.
Etc.
J. L. Speranza
Bordighera
--- Autor of "Female Genital Mutilation -- and Hollywood"
1 Sunna Circumcision - consists of the removal of the prepuce(retractable
fold of skin, or hood) and /or the tip of the clitoris. Sunna in Arabic
means "tradition".
2 Clitoridectomy - consists of the removal of the entire clitoris (prepuce
and glands) and the removal of the adjacent labia.
3 Infibulation(pharonic circumcision)-- consists of performing a
clitoridectomy (removal of all or part of the labia minora, the labia majora).
This
is then stitched up allowing a small hole to remain open to allow for urine
and menstrual blood to flow through.
In a message dated 10/5/2009 9:42:11 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
suettrevor@xxxxxxxxx writes:
What is the equivalent for a female of circumcised
> versus uncircumcised.
Mutilated vs. unmutilated, Mr. Speranza.
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