moonlight

It would be like castrating the entire penis and testicles.

More like removing the glans and foreskin, but that doesn’t make it much better. There are definitely varying degrees of awfulness, but it’s all bad.

While there are some truly evil and horrific practices like removing the clitoris or sewing the vulva shut, some female genital mutation is “just” removing the clitoral hood, which is directly analagous to the foreskin.

Most people can agree that this practice is deeply wrong, and that it is still genital mutilation. And so I think categorizing male genital mutilation separately as “circumcision” is downplaying it.

Eh, sometimes the training takes 4-8+ years, and is only achievable by people with a certain disposition or talent.

I do think it makes sense for education and work to be better integrated (apprenticeships make a lot of sense)

But “discriminating” based on education and skill is just making a decision based on the two most important factors. I don’t want some unskilled HS student as my surgeon.

If anything, I think hiring should be based on skill more, not based on previous jobs you’ve had and how good you are at interviews.