The Wow I Can't Believe That News Story Thread

[[MERIT]]

Sounds like her family is from New York.

[Cuthbert]

Revealed: 'dozens' of girls subjected to breast-ironing in UK

An African practice of “ironing” a girl’s chest with a hot stone to delay breast formation is spreading in the UK, with anecdotal evidence of dozens of recent cases, a Guardian investigation has established.

Community workers in London, Yorkshire, Essex and the West Midlands have told the Guardian of cases in which pre-teen girls from the diaspora of several African countries are subjected to the painful, abusive and ultimately futile practice.

[The Batlord]

Fluff fighting the good fight for women's liberation and not at all looking for reasons to bitch about minorities.

[windsock]

Oh ****, Africans? Uhh...it's okay then. Move along sir and h-have a great day.

[OccultHawk]

Originally Posted by Dharma & Greg

Fluff fighting the good fight for women's liberation and not at all looking for reasons to bitch about minorities.

So what? They need to leave the **** in the ****hole.

He’s goddamn right not to want that Zulu voodoo hoodoo in his own country.

[OccultHawk]

Originally Posted by elphenor

I feel that it is unlikely that Europeans would adopt this practice

even after the total tidal wave of immigration from Zulu

It’s happening in England

Maybe the problem is your racist definition of European.

[The Batlord]

Originally Posted by OccultHawk

So what? They need to leave the **** in the ****hole.

He’s goddamn right not to want that Zulu voodoo hoodoo in his own country.

Stay in Florida, Florida Man.

[OccultHawk]

Originally Posted by Dharma & Greg

Stay in Florida, Florida Man.

Stop defending torture, Virginian Virgin

[Lisnaholic]

Originally Posted by Fluff

Revealed: 'dozens' of girls subjected to breast-ironing in UK

^ I'm with Fluff and OH here - that the morality is pretty clear-cut; torturing teenagers for cosmetic reasons should be discouraged regardless of race or arguments about culture and tradition. Other practices to be condemned have included:-

China - "binding" girls feet. ("Binding" being a euphemism for repeatedly breaking the bones of the feet until they no longer grow straight.)
Europe - back in the 1700s corsets were applied so tight that not only were breathing and organs restricted, broken ribs and miscarriages were possible consequences too.
Africa - Female Genital Mutilation (= byebye sexual pleasure and hallo lifetime of medical probs)

None of these are good in my book - and it's not a coincidence that they were all perpetrated on women. A consistent element in fashion has always been the desire to make women less physically able than men. Even today, tight skirts and high heels may look alluring, but they also stop the girls from running away too far or too fast. Hot!

[The Batlord]

Originally Posted by elphenor

I hesitate to speak for batty but nobody was for torturing women here

what's noticed is how everyone of fluff's stories is "minority does bad thing" or "racism is a hoax"

I'm not suggesting anything, it's just curious

This. I'm not pro-boob ironing. I'm anti-cunt.