Cú Chulainn

#AmericanCircumcision on @NetflixUK is a fantastic documentary which is equal parts infuriating, heartbreaking, and informative and you should watch it as soon as you can (I had to skip the 2 minutes shown of the 20 minute procedure)

I remember that I first learned about FGM from watching Sex and the City as a teenager. Rightly, of course, it was discussed as a horrific practice - it's the episode where Carrie meets Justin Theroux's characters family and his mother is a documentary maker & Anti-FGM campaigner

And yet in the same show, Samantha sleeps with an uncircumcised man and is horrified. Until then I had no idea of its prevalence in the US. We say that genital mutilation in girls is barbaric and yet the same practice in boys is common in the US.

The documentary discusses the idea that anti-circumcision = antisemitism. Yet no one, as far as I know personally, believes that anti-FGM = anti-Islam. Or is it that in the West we believe that it's OK to criticise Muslim practices but not Jewish ones?

this is not a jewish practice in the USA. to imply that opposition to the practice is anti-jewish would imply that its prevalence in the USA is the result of jewish influence. do jewish proponents of genital mutilation really want to go that route?

As a UK Citizen (much lower rates of circumcision and smaller Jewish population) I'm not the most informed on this question. Simply repeating here what the documentary talks about :)