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Little Nell's avatar

Building on your comment; after the genital mutilation comes the next 13 years of treating every male child as though he might be the messiah. The males grow up disdaining women and used to being treated like their extra special. This translates into the way they view the world and their place in it.

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DomeLord's avatar

Effectively giving more power to the tribe via deliberately cultured narcissism.

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