So since the Blogspot website will not let me respond still to the Zulu Maiden Post by Dr. Fitzgerald, here are my thoughts:
I think this article and the Western perspective has a strong commonality with the FGM we discussed in class. It is easy for such a community and practice to be judged, but hard for their reasons to be understood. I did however appreciate the fact that leaders claimed this pressure put on the virginity of young women helped to combat skyrocketing AID and HIV numbers. In a way they appear fairly clever and strategic. The question just comes into play on whether their methods of HIV and AID prevent is ethical and appropriate for the world today.
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