Another Circumcision thread

[The Grand Nudger]

I can see why people who don't believe in a god might feel like mutilating your child for that god should be illegal...but I don't think it has to be to have it stopped. I think that calling it what it is, and getting the people who make those decisions to understand what and why it is, would handle the trick nicely. A mothers faith is, usually, weaker than her love for her newborn. God himself could come into the ER and damn the child, and it won't matter to most mommys. For those who have no belief, they're just doing it because it;s something that's done, and because it has been done for so long they don't see it for what it is.

There's no malice, it doesn't endanger anyone (obviously if done right, and it overwhelmingly is done right, hre..anyway). It's just one of those weirdass things we do because we think there are reasons for it, and people accept it unquestioningly. When my sons were born, they repeatedly asked us, and had us sign papers that indicated we -wouldn't- be circumsizing our sons. Every new nurse asked, and brought new papers. My wife started to worry they would do it on accident. Bit like dropping fries when none have been ordered. You do it because you do it all day.

It -should- be categorized alongside fgm - it's mgm..................? Whatever anyone's reasons for having it done, whatever the level of acceptance it has in society...that's what it -is-. We get worked up about fgm cheifly because it;s botched almost as a rule in the instances which we consider...but if it were performed here, in the us, with the same level of professionalism and clinical safety...it didn't endanger the female, would we still have a problem with it? What problem? The arguments -for- fgm are the same as those leveraged for circumcision. Either a god wants it done, or it's a cultural tradition grounded in that former belief.