If I could kill this guy and get away with it, I would

[gwyn]

Everyone's justifiably outraged about the Onion's heinous attempt at a joke op-ed on rape, but guys, the thing that is making me much more sick today (seriously, I am so enraged I'm literally fighting to not throw up) is in ginmar's LJ, about a surgeon genitally mutilating young girls at Cornell University, and then molesting them with vibrators to follow up on the surgery. With their parents' dispensation. I can't even... I have no words. And even worse, I don't know if anything can or would be done -- the study Jezebel mentions was done in 2007. There's no information on this fuckwad being stopped.

I can't even... arg. I have to go focus on work and try to calm down. I hate people so much right now, especially men. And that's something I can't stand, but jesus. Jesus. This is just sick. I have this magnet that says "If they can put one man on the moon, why not all of them?" and right now I feel like that so much. It was too long to put in a tag, sadly.

Comments

[gehayi.livejournal.com]

It looks like I might have been wrong.

lizardspots has a take on the paper in which she says, based on the paper, that this is an intersex issue and that the girls are suffering from Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia (http://lizardspots.livejournal.com/331660.html).

[gwyn-r.livejournal.com]

I think that's an obfuscating mechanism, and I'm afraid that they're going to steamroll the issue because of that, since so many people are afraid of and don't understand intersex issues.

But I also recognize that this is something deeply person to me, in a way I don't want to get into in my public journal, and I have a lot more experience with some of this than most people. I'm really unhappy that this is going to get washed over, I think.