This is a very middle-class male view of the matter. Actually churches started doing this in response to a highly classed and highly gendered problem. Circumcision is ridiculously expensive socially and financially.https://twitter.com/MediaMK/status/1060538252942327808 …
-
Show this thread
-
Replying to @NaitwaGacheri @MediaMK
It is amusing to read your take on circumcision, having taken care of boys 'transitioning' into men in my family. Because that's what happens. Paying people to take care of your folk for 2 weeks reads like rich people problems. But of course everything is
#ThePatriarchy lol1 reply 1 retweet 2 likes -
Replying to @infinitepyro @MediaMK
Dude, the first sign that you and I come from different contexts is that you said 2 weeks. In my community two weeks are for healing. Seclusion lasts almost two months. also your son is taken care of by young men appointed by his clan not the nearest male relative.
1 reply 2 retweets 0 likes -
The family does not see him at all until he comes out so as to create psychological distance in their minds between the boy they sent in and the man who will come out. Wanatuma tu pesa. Contextualize your "rich peopel problems" condescension.
1 reply 3 retweets 3 likes -
Patriachy is 1. To offer circumcision to their daughter's son becuase she has no right to membership in the clan. 2. The sexual abuse in the name of rite of passage that goes on. 3. Boys who do this"2 weeks unasema are not considered men in my community.
3 replies 2 retweets 1 like -
In conclusion
#LoudandWrong is a bad look.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @NaitwaGacheri @MediaMK
When capitalism convinced people to band into tribes around foreskin that they have no connection to. In simple terms, the family unit is a structure that will always decide what's best for itself; the rich, the poor, the African, the European.
2 replies 1 retweet 0 likes
Similarly, what people used to do isn't what people do in 2018. These patriarchy manenos are confusing to me. Circumcision is in the act, how other people feel about it is their problem unless they have vested interests in that particular penis.
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.