So as much fun as my first paper for Ethics was, is how much fun my second paper is not going to be.

It's about female genital mutilation and whether Westerners have the right to impose their moral code onto African coming of age ceremonies. Apparently there are African women willing to defend the practice? I think they must be fucking insane, but I can't exactly make that my thesis statement.

Just thinking about it is making me sick to my stomach. I think I'm going to need a stiff drink or a couple of Xanax before I can tackle the topic with any pretense at equanimity. There are only a few things that inspire this much of a visceral disgust reaction in me, but man, it just had to be this, didn't it?

:( I'm going to be putting this off until much later in the week. I just don't want to think about it right now. I'm seriously so distressed that I have to write a paper about this that I have a stress headache. Overreaction much, I know, it's just... really, really upsetting to me.