Montaigne
I felt after reading Michel De Montaigne that his assertions were
a little off base. I disagree with him when his states barbarism can best be
defined as “whatever is not in one’s own practice”, because I feel his
statements are unrealistic and selective. Perhaps it was what was going
on during this time period he viewed as barbaric but just because a human being
is experiencing something out of his or her own realm, it is not fair to
constitute the situation as always barbaric unless it truly is. Now that is to
not say there are some pretty horrific and barbaric things that went on during
this time period as well as today.
I decided to focus on a very important yet extremely disturbing (at
least to me) topic which is female circumcision. I feel as though regardless to
what studies have been done about female circumcision, the subject matter is
still very barbaric and germane to the female gender. I understand that
different cultures have their beliefs but I am cannot quite imagine how this
can be done to women in general. According to Desert Flower Foundation’s
website, “Female Genital Mutilation happens primarily in Africa, in particular
in North-Eastern, Eastern and Western Africa. However, it also takes place in
the Middle East, in South-East Asia – and also among immigrants in Europe”.
This is to not way that every person in these particular countries and cultures
partake in this barbaric ritual, but organizations such as Desert Flower
Foundation aid in putting a stop to this horrific treatment towards women.
As far as the reading assigned for this week I feel as though
there are many comparable elements within the context of the barbaric act I
wrote of. I felt that in his writing of “Of Canniblas”, he himself Montaigne is
the only character present. He wrote from the inner perspective of being a
prisoner, and this is how I feel as though this is very much what these woman I
wrote about, that is prisoners who have no way out of their confinement.
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