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Covered with white, sticky irony
"Both foot-binding and female circumcision were cultural practices forced on women by (particular! not all!) men in societies that were extremely paranoid about female power."
Ironically, foot-binding traditionally was and female circumcision still is primarily performed by older women on younger women.
But we all know that whatever adult women do is men's fault because they but are mindless puppets without any ability to understand their own behavior.