Grills and Female Circumcision
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-11-17 18:19:17
A very strange day. I went to the library to work and in the evening Mark called and asked if I could back up him move his aunt's grill up to his house. This was a grill worthy of Texas in fact it probably came from Texas. It was huge. Trying to disassemble the thing and get it downstairs was an adventure in and of itself. In addition his aunt had left us a LOT of American super-market food which had me all kinds of giddy. The cab go back was also odd. The driver was a really nice guy but for some reason or another we started talking about sex and he brought up the issue of female circumcision (something that around 80% of women here have). It was interesting and actually very unsettling to see how he argued for it. It was a medical thing he claimed -- we do this to help our daughters because otherwise they suffer from sexual "fever" (سخونة) and can neither control themselves nor be satisfied -- all this can be avoided with a quick operation that reminds me rather queasily of the way same way male circumcision or ambiguous gender "correction" is handled in the US as a necessary and beneficial medical practice. He then went on to say all the women in my family are circumcised my care my sisters and if I were to ever have a daughter. I'd circumcise her too. (internal cries of "noo!") I said. I really think it's horribly painful and can bring about to complications and death. No we all do it was the reply. Before you alter that decision at least talk to a doctor. I ventured. He nodded and waved us goodbye. Mark's bag went off with him. What does one do when someone is so sure about themselves?We got home and started putting things in the fridge. As the groceries piled up. I thought to myself I should take a picture and show it off online so I look.. and I can't find my camera anywhere. Not a place. The measure time I had it was in Alex but I didn't even act it out of the bag not once. Very very worried and upset. attach went back to Ma3adi to get more stuff and I started drinking beer. Mark got back and he was so stoked about the grill and revved up from the trip he started making us drinks. An hour or two later we were pretty gone. Today was a day of great gains and great losses. Gained: a refrigerator of food: milk tortillas barbecue act syrup tons of meat bacon frozen pizzas chicken nuggets pudding girl scout cookies cereal lentils sieve wheat bread mac-n-cheese jello instant soup marshmallows gatorade gin vermouth wine nice german beer triple sec. cook. Lost: Mark's bag my camera (hopefully not permanently). attach's cell phone.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
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