Four of William Collins's pieces on MGM: Male Genital Mutilation http://mra-uk.co.uk/?p=519 MGM: Claimed Medical Benefits - Part 1 http://mra-uk.co.uk/?p=1604 MGM: Claimed Medical Benefits - Part 2 http://mra-uk.co.uk/?p=1655 MGM: Claimed Medical Benefits - Part 3 http://mra-uk.co.uk/?p=1675 If everyone who watched this video gave us just £1 – or even better, £1 monthly - we could change the world. Click here to make a difference. Thanks. https://j4mb.wordpress.com/donate/ This video was drawn from the end of an episode of BBC News at Ten. It follows time-honoured feminist narratives on FGM. It conflates FGM with forced marriage, and starting at 2:52 there's an outright lie - 'In these deeply traditional, patriarchal communities, away from the big cosmopolitan cities, many men still demand that women are cut.' Wherever it is carried out, FGM is performed at the behest of women, and almost always BY women. Men don't demand that women are cut. You have to wonder if the Maasai warrior interviewed at the end is curious about why MGM continues unchallenged. He's surely a victim of the butchery himself. The pretext for the piece was a report by the United Nations, the body (along with the WHO) sponsoring the circumcision of 20 million men in sub-Saharan Africa, in a futile (possibly even counter-productive) bid to halt the spread of AIDS. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b16CBdjtmL8

This is video #2 of 9 videos we’ll be posting in the next few hours, our thanks to Gabriel for pointing us to them. We’ll be adding all of the videos to our playlist of videos created by the legendary British vlogger ManWomanMyth (Rowland Ade). Before his fall from a considerable height in 2015, Rowland had been publishing high-quality videos on gender issues for many years. Rowland sustained serious and long-lasting physical injuries and brain damage in the fall. One of our recent blog pieces on him, with a link to his current YouTube channel: https://j4mb.org.uk/2020/04/06/manwomanmyth-an-update/ Our playlist of his videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjMscr0TpRqhGadn27XAzBcwXchJ2EvYp Rowland is one of the Guests of Honour at the forthcoming (virtual) sixth International Conference on Men’s Issues (14-19 November, 2020), at which there will be up to 120 speakers: https://icmi2020.icmi.info/?page_id=27 ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T94tK-yXuHw