Jessica Wynn
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first heard Nov 2025
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The Jordan Harbinger Show · 1378: Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) | Skeptical Sunday · 6 Sep 2026
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I mean this is unpleasant for sure.
But I actually think that discomfort is useful.
Most people look away from FGM because it's almost unbearable to think about.
The problem is when everybody looks away, silence stops being accidental.
It becomes part of the machinery that keeps the practice going.
What do you mean?
Well survivors are often expected not to talk about it.
Families who are involved don't talk about it.
Governments underfund efforts to stop it.
Even journalists and researchers sometimes struggle to cover it without
turning entire cultures into caricatures.
And the rest of us just file it away as something awful happening somewhere else.
When everybody has a reason not to look too closely, that collective silence doesn't just surround FGM, it protects it.
And that's why we're talking about it.
And we're not talking about a few isolated cases here.
We're talking hundreds of millions of women and girls.
Sure, but the comparison, it's worth holding on to.
Not because it's the same thing, it definitely isn't, but because it forces us to consider both practices.
But I want to underline the difference immediately.
So male circumcision, it may be unnecessary and it raises real consent questions, but it's not the same as removing a girl's clitoris, narrowing a vaginal opening,
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