BARBARA'S TCHATZKAHS

FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION This custom is so barbaric to me, I have avoided talking about it. But as a mother and a woman - I think its time I took a stand here. Ignoring this issue isn't going to make it go away. If Hashem made man in His image and made him perfect, then only Hashem has the right to order something like circumsion. But FEMALE circumsion? Did I miss that in the Torah? I don't think so. Girls die from this mutilation every year. I am posting a couple articles on the subject. I hope you join me in speaking out against this horror. Letter to the Mom's Who Mutilate Their Daughters Last month 12-year old Budour died after her family chose to have her clitoris surgically mutilated. This little Egyptian girl is only one of the estimated 6,000 girls who undergo Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) every single day, but her death has triggered the slowly working cogs of progress towards eradicating this vicious cultural practice meant to control and condemn women...

THE ANN COULTER TRAIN WRECK This week while I was waiting for my muscle conductivity pain test to start (don't ask - let's just say it involved needles, electrodes and me yelling "stop!! AAARRRRRGGGG!!!") I picked up the paper and read Ann Coulter. Oh there's plenty of female train wrecks in the news. Brittney Spears and Lindsey Lohan. There's the Deborah "How many politicos paid my escort service for sex countdown" Paltrey. There's Victoria Beckham, who'd look a lot sexier if she wore an outfit that actually had a bottom-half. Rosie O'Donnell can't seem to keep her mouth shut long enough for the oxygen to return to the planet. Hillary gave Obama a smack-down at the debates. The list goes on and on. Why are people still listening to Coulter? She looks like Skeletor with big boobs. She's nasty and foul-mouthed. She's a hypocrite and a shill for the neo-cons. When her ex-boyfriend, Bob Guccione, Jr. told the world the ...