I hope I can find my soap...

[rootofnewt]

Ooof. I've been super achy. My neck and shoulders are killing me. It seems that they're so tight, they should spring loose, like a watch that's overwound. Of course, that would offer some relief, so my body's not about to do it.

I'm going to shower soon. It's been a few days, which is not a good thing in summer. My hair looks gross. Then I'll go buy some mailing envelopes and a CD mailer.

I suddenly smell bleach. How odd.

I'm really frustrated by the homophobia on a list I run. What's the balance between allowing someone to express an opinion yet still providing a safe space for queer members? The list in question is not a queer-issues list of any sort.

And is it wrong that I feel those who have religious objections to homosexuality are narrow-minded? It seems that *I* am being narrow-minded by feeling that... Of course, I also feel they're being hypocrites for being judgmental. Since I don't follow a faith where I'm not supposed to be judgmental, I don't have any qualms judging them as such, except I *DO* feel bad for being judgmental like that. Where the hell did this guilty conscience come from, anyhow?

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Boy did I open up a can of worms here. Female circumcision is the removal of part or all of the clitoris. It's still practiced in some African cultures today. A lot of people, especially in the West, see it as barbaric and oppressive to women. It is also indisputably painful, and for many circumcised women sex is less pleasurable and often quite painful as well.

The topic came up a lot in my anthropology classes. I've read a lot of arguments against it, and some are very logical, while others smack of obvious ethnocentrism. It's a touchy issue. What I was saying is that I don't agree with the ritual itself, but I don't hate the people who practice it or see the entire culture as backwards, ignorant, or "primitive" (god I hate that word when applied to cultures).

You can search for more info on Google, but like I said, a lot of the literature out there is very, very biased. I did find one article (http://www.africa2000.com/SNDX/circum.html) that I thought was very insightful.

krasota, sorry to go off on this tangent in your journal here...