Craig Welch wrote:
On 17 Jun 2006 00:21:03 -0700, "Fran" wrote:

Little Johnny Howard wrote:

If you wish to discuss social
customs and medical practices, start a new thread and we'll talk about
mastectomy, cliterodectomy and circumcision.

Not really, but in the grand scheme of things, there's little doubt
that women have been victims rather more often than perpetrators.

Oddly enough, in the case of clitoridectomies, they are both. The
evil practice is pretty much kept in place by women, to women.


Regrettably, you're right, though it shows that a variant of Stockholm
Syndrome is a longstanding feature of human relationships, and rather
underlines the power imbalance between males and females in those
settings. In a metaphoric sense, the females have been given keys to
some of the internal doors in the prison they inhabit, and fearing the
consequences of anarchy, hold tightly onto them, even though this makes
life easier for the upper level prison guards.

Fran