It's A Dirty Job...........

[ToraToraTora]

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-36843772
Unbelievable!

[pastafreak]

This has left me speechless. But,there are so many practices that seem incomprehensible to us. Maybe change will start to happen as women realise they can speak up against it.

[Smowball]

I'm completely stunned by that - he's HIV positive too for gods sake!!!

[Old_Geezer]

Does the job centre have any openings ?

[pastafreak]

That's ^^^ not even funny...

[ummmm]

It is shocking.

In my world most men who spoke to me were warned off.

[jordyboy14]

THE president of one of the world's poorest nations has vowed to buy himself a PRIVATE JET - as British taxpayers' prepare to take their spending on foreign aid for the country close to £400m.

[retrocop]

An ex colleague of mine served in the Mediterranean Fleet on the Malta station.
He told me that it was common practice for the catholic priest to ...er.. visit a young woman the night before he was to marry her off. The parents were to make themselves scarce when he arrived to do his 'Godly 'work!!
Sounds very feudal but with that religion in the 50's I could well believe it might just be true especially as the colleague was not renowned for line-shooting.

[andy-hughes]

As pastafreak advises, there are may cultural practices in the world that seem bizarre to us.

The difference here though, is that people are being actively damaged by this barbaric behaviour, and its elimination should be addressed with urgency.

[naomi24]

^"Its elimination should be addressed with urgency" by whom?

[-SharonA-]

Awful, of course it is rape! This violation must stop.

[retrocop]

There are many barbaric practises in most 3rd world countries. Stoning adulterous women or women stoned because they let themselves be raped, killing homosexuals. This is done in the name of their religion and part of their 'bizarre culture'
Been going on since Noah was a boy. How do you propose to eliminate that. Invasion.? We are condoning it by gifting billions of £s to these savage countries. Put economic sanctions on them and if they ask why then tell them.

[pastafreak]

Money...OR the removal of it is not the cure. Education is, time consuming though it will be.

[andy-hughes]

Naomi - //^"Its elimination should be addressed with urgency" by whom? //

By education, as pastafreak advises.

[retrocop]

Its all very well playing the missionary role but trying to educate another culture to practice birth control .STD, basic sanitation,how to find drinking water is,and always has been a failed and costly endeavour. Just marching in and saying your ways are not the civilised ways of the civilised western and you should stop will soon garner the accusations of policing other countries and god forbid colonising them. These people are frightened of a Polio vaccine but are quite happy to carry out FGM with a rusty blade. I suspect you don't have to go far in most major cities in the UK where that practice has not been eliminated either.

[andy-hughes]

PiedPiper - //Attempting to educate people like this is akin to trying to teach a frog to talk. //

Not really.

No amount of time, money and effort will ever teach frog to talk because a frog lacks the mental capacity and physical equipment to achieve the aim of the exercise.

Educating human beings is always possible, and can be achieved with time and patience.

[naomi24]

andy-hughes, and who is going to do the educating?

[andy-hughes]

PiedPiper - //Could it be that those who carry out such barbaric acts may want to educate us so that we may adopt their cultural practises. //

They may well, but we know that is not likely to get very far.

I am absolutely in favour of different cultures keeping their own customs and practices, but the bottom line throughout the world, the starting point for everything and everyone, is that no-one is hurt or damaged by the custom.

That nicely covers everything - wearing a garment - no problem, cutting pieces off pre-pubescent girls - problem.

If we all work on that basis, then things like this can eventually be eradicated, with advice and education to try and point to a better way.

[-Talbot-]

It's despicable ... it's rape.