It’s a question I’ve asked myself often:

If the tables were turned if women were in men’s exact position how would they respond?

Would they tolerate it?

Would they normalize it?

Would they defend it the way many men do?

I look at the feminist and want to believe they wouldn’t.

That women would be outraged. That they’d march, legislate, scream, and fight with righteous fury.

That they’d call it what it is a cultural violation, a sexist relic, an unforgivable betrayal.

And if it happened to girls in hospitals by smiling clinicians in sterile rooms I like to believe they would tear the system down.

But is that belief reality?

Or is that projection?

FGM: The Mirror We Avoid

Because here’s the uncomfortable truth:

In many places where female genital mutilation (FGM) still happens it’s women who uphold it.

Mothers arrange it. Grandmothers insist on it. Female midwives perform it. And the wider female community enforces it.

They say things like:

“It’s tradition.”

“It’s cleaner.”

“It’s what makes a girl marriageable.”

“I had it done, and I turned out fine.”

Sound familiar?

That’s the exact same coping language cut men are taught to use.

The same rationalizations, justifications, and mental gymnastics.

When you’re powerless to undo a wound, you find ways to sanctify it.

You turn violation into virtue, mutilation into “normal,” and trauma into tradition.

The Psychological Trap

So maybe women wouldn’t be as different as I want to believe.

Maybe they’d end up in the same psychological position men are in now:

Isolated in their pain Socialized to deny it Conditioned to justify it Pressured to shut up and perform as if nothing happened

It’s not about gender.

It’s about what happens to the human mind when you’re forced to live with something you never consented to something you weren’t allowed to grieve.

And that’s exactly why it has to stop.

Stop Testing Human Resilience

We should not be playing psychological games with people’s bodies.

We should not be gambling with the long-term health and dignity of infants and then waiting to see if they cope “well enough” as adults.

What matters is not whether someone learns to live with harm but whether they should’ve been harmed at all.

It doesn’t matter if some cut men feel “fine.”

Or if some women who underwent FGM now say they’re proud.

What matters is that no human male or female should have to process that kind of betrayal in the first place.

Final Thought

Whether women would tolerate it or not isn’t the real question.

The real question is:

Why are we still asking anyone to?

In the future we will touch on what I call the “Victim-Vector Cycle”. Where people who have been abused feel the need to abuse others to justify their abuse.

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