Circumcision on babies should be illegal...
...especially if there is a religious excuse for it.
shareI agree that Semitism needs to be opposed as strongly as possible. But circumcision only became widespread in America during the Progressive era when we allowed scientists to convince us that it would discourage masturbation. We need to reserve the strongest punishment for people who try to justify circumcision on scientific grounds. It's this kind of thing that gives scientists a bad reputation. Many people already distrust them on the environment. Even more already distrust them when it comes to diet. Everyone distrusts them when it comes to 50 different genders.
shareIf there is one thing I can't stand, it's when women try to justify circumcision. They don't have a dick so they don't know what they're talking about.
shareAshley Judd condemns female circumcision and promotes male circumcision. Hillary Clinton same, many others.
shareI think we can all agree the FGM is a whole different ball game to circumcision right?
If circumcision was an Ear piercing
FGM would be Ear off, pulp fiction style
No.
Most female circumcisions don't even involve removing tissue. It's a pinprick or a drop of hot wax or something. Even if they did remove the clitoris, it's only the tip. The bulk of that organ is internal. Male circumcision is far more invasive in terms of both the type and amount of tissue removed. Normal people don't even know what a frenulum is, or a ridged band. They don't know that the foreskin is fused to the glans in infancy. For females, they at least have enough sense to wait until puberty. Male circumcision changes the whole mechanics of sex which is why people need artificial lubricant. It's much worse than female circumcision.
But notice how I don't go into moral panic mode and use this to declare female circumcision justified on the grounds of sexism, like you.
"we allowed scientists to convince us that it would discourage masturbation."
"We need to reserve the strongest punishment for people who try to justify circumcision on scientific grounds."
Those people are NOT scientists.
btw when was this "progressive era" ?
Officially 1890-1920, but we ought to consider it ongoing. The Progressive era is what gave rise to the idea of "experts", or intellectuals, as a class. We started requiring licenses for the professions, and it was very trendy to believe that society could be planned out by them. You know what happens. Far from being a rational time, it was a very moralistic time, just like now. They had too much power. Scientists even promoted female circumcision, with carbolic acid.
I get it. You consider yourself a progressive and pro-science. You can't handle the fact that every scientific authority worldwide from the World Health Organization on down to pediatric unions promotes something as obviously bad as male infant circumcision still to this day. Guess what. They got a pill for that. Ask your doctor.