Why did the Swedish culture minister Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth, a hardline anti-racist, cut this terrible caricature cake? Why would a black artist perform this purposely offensive piece, screaming comically as a room full of white art show-goers slice at the cake below his blackface painted head? If this “cake party” was staged to bring awareness to female genital circumcision, why are they all giggling?
Artist Makode Al Linde is basking in all the negative attention his piece of shock art at Moderna Museet is stirring. Is there anything redeeming about this piece? This cake cutting is a horrific spectacle — the red, the screams, the giggles — almost as if the Scandinavia’s apathy towards the issue of female circumcision is exaggerated through the aggressive trivialization and the cake-cutters are purposely made complicit in the violence. Also, it’s kitschy and absurd, but for obvious reasons, that’s not the first thing you think about either.
When Marina Abramović dismembered an oozing cake version of herself and Deborah Harry at the MoCA, some of the swanky gala guests chanted “Violence against women!” This is violence against women:
Female genital mutilation is the removal of part or all of the external female genitalia. In its most severe form, a woman or girl has all of her genitalia removed and then stitched together, leaving a small opening for intercourse and menstruation. It is practiced in 28 African countries on the pretext of cultural tradition or hygiene.
The degrading torture, extreme pain, lifelong consequences of this ordeal does not make it off-limits for artistic critique. Does “getting my vagaga mutilated” work? Had the response been different if Makode had a “vagaga” or if he was white? Is this the worst photo-op in the history of Swedish politics?
Where are the cries against male genital violence that is practiced every day all over the United States? Why is it ok because boys are the victims and not girls?
That's because removal of the foreskin is not tantamount to the complete or partial removal of the clitoris, labia, vulva, etc., ad infinitum.
But it's the same ballpark, right? So don't have your children circumcised. Either that or hide your head in a penis cake cake and cry like an attention whore.
I think maybe it's because men still have their genitals, whereas the women won't? I'm not saying all cases of circumcision go well either…
You must be crazy. Many men or boys loose their penises our even every thing because of necrosis or have the luck of dying. And women still have their genitals our do you think women loose their vaginas, ovaries or uteri? What do you think is circumcision?
"yay, look at all us privileged white folks laughing our tits off at an attempt to make fun of FGM" – ugh. people. take me away from this planet already
That is because is a man crying. Cant you see the purpose? to put a man in female position to be mutilated in revenge. That is why they think it is funny. Let us now talk about male genital mutilation.
This is a wake up call.
They are laughing because is a man who are crying out loud. What about male genital mutilation going on all western countries? It is just right to cut off males genitals parts, nobody cares about men or even boys. In the cultures where female are circumcised men are circumcised too. Go fuck you manhater feminist. Male genital mutilation makes you happy.
I'd explain the differences between male circumcision (which is purely cosmetic) to female circumcision (which doesn't allow a woman to experience any sexual pleasure at all), but I don't have any hand puppets to help explain the concept to you. You need to be extraordinarily dense to not understand the difference.
That's because removal of the foreskin is not tantamount to the complete or partial removal of the clitoris, labia, vulva, etc., ad infinitum.
But it's the same ballpark, right? So don't have your children circumcised. Either that or hide your head in a penis cake cake and cry like an attention whore.
wait, i still dont get why they did the blackface stuff
Just to get a few facts into this:
1. There are different kinds of FGM, ranging from a small incision into the clitoral hood all the way to the removal of the glans clitoris and labia and sewing shut the vaginal opening (“pharaonic circumcision”).
2. There are different kinds of MGM, ranging from symbolically drawing a little blood from the foreskin to removal of all the skin from the penis and slicing up the underside of the penis over its entire length (“subincision”).
3. Removal of the glans clitoris (the visible part) does not remove the entire clitoris, most of which is hidden inside the body “riding” the vaginal canal. Thus, even orgasm is still possible for a woman mutilated in this way. The glans clitoris contains 8000 nerve endings.
4. The most common kind of MGM done in the US and for religious reasons by abrahamitic religions removes the foreskin, the frenulum and the ridged band, all very sensitive areas together containing 12000 nerve endings. The now constant exposure of the head of the penis also causes the skin there to grow thicker, reducing sensitivity.
5. No type of circumcision on either male or female genitals does have any positive effects on health. It is also not effective in preventing the spread of AIDS. Even if a phimosis exists in a boy, it can usually be treated with creams or may even disappear on its own before adulthood.
Without a good medical reason, nobody anywhere is authorised to hurt and permanently mutilate a child, regardless of whether it’s a boy or a girl. One should really think this to be obvious.
Bombe 20
Absolutely correct. If it's done for religious reasons remember that the religion is the parent's not the child's. A man or woman should have control of their own bodies at all times. This practice demonstrates the worst traits of barbaric tribalism.
Just to get a few facts into this:
1. There are different kinds of FGM, ranging from a small incision into the clitoral hood all the way to the removal of the glans clitoris and labia and sewing shut the vaginal opening (“pharaonic circumcision”).
2. There are different kinds of MGM, ranging from symbolically drawing a little blood from the foreskin to removal of all the skin from the penis and slicing up the underside of the penis over its entire length (“subincision”).
3. Removal of the glans clitoris (the visible part) does not remove the entire clitoris, most of which is hidden inside the body “riding” the vaginal canal. Thus, even orgasm is still possible for a woman mutilated in this way. The glans clitoris contains 8000 nerve endings.
4. The most common kind of MGM done in the US and for religious reasons by abrahamitic religions removes the foreskin, the frenulum and the ridged band, all very sensitive areas together containing 12000 nerve endings. The now constant exposure of the head of the penis also causes the skin there to grow thicker, reducing sensitivity.
5. No type of circumcision on either male or female genitals does have any positive effects on health. It is also not effective in preventing the spread of AIDS. Even if a phimosis exists in a boy, it can usually be treated with creams or may even disappear on its own before adulthood.
Without a good medical reason, nobody anywhere is authorised to hurt and permanently mutilate a child, regardless of whether it’s a boy or a girl. One should really think this to be obvious.
Bombe 20
it is the same
try getting circumcised-without anesthesia