whataboutery in the Victim Olympics

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Adoctor was discussing how gender dysphoria is sufficiently intense to motivate people whith healthy male bodies to undergo extensive surgery... then a woman of African decent tells us that olny "real" women suffer the oppression of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM).

I countered that genital mutilation is prevalent on male people too, and that it is practiced by barbaric primitive cultures and nothing to do with Patriarchy™
... and here are two screen shots showing how that deteriorated into my being framed as a 'racist':

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Tommy Sotomayer has made many good presentations of the victim mentality that is holding people back. Well worth watching if you feel you are on an "axis of oppression".

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