Jessica Wynn

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The Jordan Harbinger Show · 1378: Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) | Skeptical Sunday · 6 Sep 2026 podcast

That can't be dismissed.

very carefully, I guess.

I think the first thing to recognize is that the capacity to internalize and find meaning in something that was done to you without your consent is one of the most profound things human beings do.

We are meaning making creatures, you know, people find pride, identity, and community in

all kinds of experiences that outsiders might categorize as harmful.

That is real and it deserves respect.

You know, the second thing to recognize is that this doesn't resolve the question of harm or consent.

The fact that some survivors don't identify as victims, it doesn't mean the harm isn't real.

I mean, we've established the health consequences are documented, they're objective.

And so it doesn't really matter about the survivor's subjective experience of them.

Oh, enormously.

If the anti FGM movement is perceived as saying to women who support the practice, You're a victim who doesn't know you're a victim, that's gonna fail.

I mean that framing is both it's condescending and it's ineffective.

It's condescending because it denies women the complexity of their own experience, but it's ineffective because you can't build community consensus by telling half the community their perspective doesn't count.

So the goal is to create conditions in which communities choose to stop, not to lecture survivors about what their lives mean.

Yeah.

I mean

It is horrific.

So in the immediate aftermath of FGM, and doesn't matter which type, there is severe bleeding, sometimes fatal, there's a very high rate of infection, intense pain.

It makes urinating problematic.

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