Yeah, I was just stunned and cried as I recall. My mom was furious. I agree that it's not an ideal hashtag. It's provoking a response by being confrontational, but sadly not so many good responses. If you have ideas for a better wording, maybe we can do better next time.
Exactly, informed adult consent. I know two people who were circumcised as adults, they had actual issues, they made choices and they are happy with it. Both are against infant circumcision. And honestly both take proper care of what they have now that parents never do for boys.
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I come from a country and a culture that doesn't usually circumcise babies, so I find it strange that it happens routinely - and people rarely question it.
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It's crazy over here in North America. I had no idea it wasn't common worldwide until I started doing research in adulthood. When I started getting all activist about it I was stunned by how commonly people just refuse to engage in the discussion, get outraged you'd question it
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Wow. I knew it was the norm there, but I didn't realize there was a problem if you chose not to have your baby boy circumcised. You've got a lot of activism on your plate!
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People keep talking about parental choice or religious freedom, but what about the boy's choice, what about his freedom to pick a religion without having the symbol of another faith carved, literally, into his flesh?
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The picture you paint is totally horrific. And you're absolutely right. No one, not even a parent, has the right to surgically interfere with anyone for religious or other nebulous reasons. I hope you speak out about this at every opportunity to change these views.
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And a parent in particular, they have a duty to protect their children, this is a betrayal of that duty of care they owe, to say nothing of the duty owed by the doctors "Primum non nocere" That may be a good hastag for this too
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I personally felt betrayed and violated when I finally understood what the difference was, how much different it should be, and it was made worse when I confronted them, my parents, and told them it was the wrong choice, that it was my body and me that had to live with the >>
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2> consequences, and they defended it, they outright refused to even apologize, instead I got this: "everyone did it, except the jews because they did it later" "it's cleaner" "It looks better" "Your father had it done" "All my brothers were done" >>
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This is something with debatable medical benefits, unknown risks, and even if we take all the benefits at face value, the big one doesn't come into play until a boy is sexually active, the other big one, penile cancer, happens in 1 in 100,000 men in their 50s and up and the >>
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2> last one, UTI prevention, takes over 100 circumcisions to prevent 1 UTI which they could just treat instead with medication, not surgery, like they do for girls who get these infections at least 4 times as often. Surgery should always be a last resort, never a preventative.
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Couldn't agree more.
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