Breast Flattening, Breast Ironing or Breast Sweeping

▼Assault on Women: Reflections▼

WARNING: GRAPHIC & DISTURBING CONTENT

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The wincesome experience you probably just had thanks to the report above, need not be

relegated to Women's Health and Development or Africa alone. A disturbing & unfortunate

aspect of the human condition is the friction between Dignity and Interference. Where-

ver the growth, development or blossoming of individuals (in this case, female children

and adolescent's natural physique) is being interfered with, or stifled outright through

shameless perpetuation of wickedness, the nebulous role of ignorance very often is

at play. I've learned for instance, that it is not enough to know that Ignorance is

the state of being completely unaware, uneducated, uninformed, misinformed

and/or apathetic to one's own ignorance. I think the moment one writes off

the above as a Cameroonian, Central or West African problem, they're trig

-gering a line of reasoning sure to result in even greater ignorance. Like

the time when a culturally incompetent reader denied racism while

attempting to re-explain my blog based on his bubble of irreality as

Mainland Chinese visitors knowing better looked on from my apart

-ment in disbelief and amusement. It makes no difference how

formally educated one is. Proof of ignorance begins where,

like the inability to grant another their human dignity, one

consistently interferes with others' growth, presuming to

know better, or somehow seeking to dictate—like the

mother obsessively does in the video—the terms of

another's future happiness or present progress. It

never ceases to amaze me. Despite my African

blood, despite having lived and experienced

the Continent and its diverse cultures, I am

just as disgusted by this human tendency,

as I am by my Filipina friend's ex-beau,

who cut off her nipples & effectively

disfigured her for life, in a jealous

rage. Read more about Breast

Ironing & other acts of vio-

lence against women. But

always ask yourself: Are

my intolerant or dark

views of/need to

suppress others,

tantamount to

ironing their

potential &

Dignity?

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Understanding 'The Human Condition' (Part VIII)
Previous Iteration(Follow the Dove)

○ ○ ○On the Origins of Human Dignity (Part 3)
Previous Iteration(Follow the Dove)

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