Oprah Winfrey criticized by the Canadian Foreskin Awareness Project over anti-aging skin cream endorsement
An anti-circumcision human rights group is picketing media mogul Oprah Winfrey as she tours through Canada because she has endorsed an anti-aging cream made of cells extracted from foreskins.
The Canadian Foreskin Awareness Project is the self-proclaimed feistiest pro-foreskin advocacy group which works to educate and raise awareness for a male infants right to keep his genitals intact.
Winfrey has been on a three-stop tour of Canada giving motivational talks to sold-out audiences about her rise to fame, her famous inspirational idols and her Christian faith.
As harmless as the tour may seem, the Toronto Star reported that the CFAP has picketed at Winfreys first two stops, Ottawa and Montreal.
The rights group is angry that Winfrey has endorsed SkinMedicas TNS Recovery Complex an anti-aging cream made from the fibroblast cells of male foreskins.
The founder of the product, Dr. Richard Fitzpatrick, explained that the cells were taken from a single foreskin that was removed over twenty years ago.
However, one CFAP advocate, Glen Callender, pointed out that the skin cream is a form of reverse sexism.
How would Oprah respond if a skin cream for men hit the market that was made using cells from the genitalia of little girls? Callender told the Star.
I think she would be absolutely disgusted and appalled, and rightly so. So its crazy that shes doing the opposite.
Callender also shamed Winfrey for supporting male c! ircumcision which he equated to the injustice of female circumcision.
He said, We think its extremely hypocritical and distasteful that Oprah Winfrey - who is herself a survivor of childhood sexual abuse and an outspoken opponent of female genital mutilation - at the same time uses and promotes a product that wouldnt exist if not for the forcible genital mutilation of boys.
The Canadian Foreskin Awareness Project plans to follow Winfrey to her third and final stop at the Copps Coliseum in Hamilton, Ontario.
Operation Oprah Hamilton will commence on Sat. April 13.