Reddit mentions of Anatomy of female power: A masculinist dissection of matriarchy by Chinweizu (1990-05-03)

Here's another one: https://www.amazon.com/Anatomy-female-power-masculinist-dissection/dp/9782651052

I haven't read it though. It seems like quite the meme.

Also: https://www.amazon.com/Second-Sexism-Discrimination-Against-Boys/dp/0470674512

Anatomy of Female Power by Chinweizu - PDF here.

> Wow, once I saw this book was banned here in the U.S., I had to get it just to see why and, wow. The author has brought up things that men hardly think about in relation to the women in their lives. Of course any feminist-minded female or puzzy whipped male would disagree due to their personal experiences or beliefs, but Chinweizu has very, very valid and strong points that readers of both sexes have to consider if they are honest about themselves and the environment we live in. After all, you have to wonder why this little book was banned and by whom. I'll leave you with one of the quotes form the book, "Men may rule the world, but women rule the men that rule the world"...and that was before feminism.

Enjoy.

> The article you linked... doesn't support what I think you're saying?

Yes I know it doesn't support what I'm saying!! Jesus, how can you misread me so badly?? I was saying, 'this is probably the sort of thing you support!' Feminists who are against the movement for genital autonomy! I'm an intactivist, that means I am in favour of genital integrity for all. Contrasted with people like you and the feminist professor I linked who believe that the "religious reasons for men’s “mutilation” are fundamentally different from the arguments that drive the wounding of women", and so on.

> The third paragraph of the wikipedia article you linked... also says the exact opposite of what you're saying, that it is about control of women's sexuality

How is that "the exact opposite of what you're saying"? Where did I claim that FGM is not about control of women's sexuality?? Just because you don't accept that it is a form of 'patriarchal oppression' does not mean that it is not about control of women's sexuality; these things do not necessarily follow. Hell, if you read the masculist book Anatomy of female power he says it is done to reduce women's sex drive thus giving them more 'bargaining power' in relationships and marriage, i.e. less sex drive => less desire to get married => more ability to get material rewards for men in return for marriage. Not that I 100% accept that to be true, but it is a theory that is arguably to do with control of women's sexuality in a gynocentric social setting, not patriarchal.

> Cutting of foreskin is not as bad as cutting off a clitoris or sewing a vagina mostly shut

lol, you just picked those out of the several forms of FGM for what reason exactly? There are several more types of FGM than that, and you clearly know it, because you mentioned "type 1A" above.

> FGM is worse

MGM is more widely practised. What is done in your country; is FGM done much there?

> ...and shouldn't be minimized by equivocating it with circumcision

How is it "minimizing" it?? You just said you think it's "indefensible" yet you say to compare male and female circumcision to downplaying the former. I could link you videos and images of MGM that would make you sick to your stomach, and articles of kids that have fucking died; how you can possibly think it is 'minimizing' FGM to relate the two I have no idea.

• Done for similar reasons
  
  
• Often done in the same parts of the world
  
  
• Often one by the same practitioners
  
  
• Many of the same outcomes (septicaemia, blood loss, scarring, sexual dysfunction)
  
  
• Done as a 'rite of passage'
  
  See http://blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/2014/02/female-genital-mutilation-and-male-circumcision-time-to-confront-the-double-standard/ Long, but worth reading in full, if you are really committed to learning about this stuff. That is from Brian D. Earp, an Oxford University, England (one the world's top unis.) Research Associate, BTW.
  
  At the end of the day it the exact same people and organisations who can and should be campaigning against both simultaneously, (World Health Organisation, United nations, Save the Children, etc.), but people like you keep trying to keep the spotlight on girls and women, I'm guessing for paternalistic and chivalrous reasons.