Is it bad that I agree with this?

[Strangler Lewis]

Originally Posted by Alex Stroup

As for your daughter, I would bet it was another girl that told her she needs to be skinny for boys to like her. Not a runway model or a man or even another young boy.

I think the way these things go is that the men set the standards, the women bow to them, adopt them and perpetuate them. I very much doubt that a woman invented female genital mutilation, but it's clear that generations of women who have endured the process are involved in getting young girls ready for it.

I think the girl/woman dichotomy does not hold up. My criminal clients have mostly grown up in environments where, as youths, the wrong choice was essentially inevitable. It is a gross fiction to say that once such a person turns 18, the choices they make suddenly become rational and self-interested and free from the unwholesome influences of their youth.