We're so weird

Rachel has a good post today on labioplasty. Yes, that's right. At the same time we criticize other cultures for mutilating the genitals of their daughters, we're willingly mutilating our own. I don't even know where to start with this. Is what we're doing somehow more "okay" than what they're doing because we're choosing for ourselves to hack up our genitals? Is it okay because it's to make us look more like sluts (Rachel reports that many women bring in pictures of porn stars they want to look like.) instead of keeping us from looking like sluts? And more importantly, if these cosmetic surgeons are willing to perform this surgery, does that mean that there are other cosmetic surgeons who are willing to perform the other kinds of genital mutilation? If not, why not? It's truly a strange to me that it's come to this, and believe me, I'm as shocked as the next person to find myself arguing against situational ethics, but really, if we can't agree that there's something wrong with hacking up a woman's labia so that she can fit some perceived societal norm--whether it happens in the U.S. or in Africa--we're really fucked in the head.