When Nick Kristof

is good, he is very good, but when he is bad, as when he spouts off about education, he is dumber than a goddamned box of rocks.

Kristof, as I think I noted elsewhere, is from Oregon, for God's sake, and should know better.

However, his most recent column was another in a series of columns talking about the plight of women in other countries. He goes into graphic detail about so-called "female circumcision," still practiced on millions upon millions of girls, mostly in Africa and in the Middle East.

Naturally, some people in the comments try to conflate male circumcision with the female variety when in fact they are not similar at all.

What these people do who argue it is downplay just how horrible female mutilation is.

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It is a human rights violation.