Another Circumcision thread

[The Grand Nudger]

It is a common response to abuse, but are you actually going to compare the process of circumcision to serious physical and/or sexual abuse that could last for a much longer period in a child's life?

Does it matter how many times your uncle diddles you?  Is it better if it only happens the once, is over quickly, and you don't remember it?  Does -that- get the abuser off the hook?OFC not.  At lkeast your diddling uncle didn;t takle a knife to you, slicing pieces off while he did what he did.  Unless he did...and then suddenly we realize that it actually -is- pretty nasty.  

Do you think those who were cut are psychologically damaged in some way because they experienced something the literal day they were born? I think the multitude of cut men who come out and say, "Eh, big deal" in response to the anti-circumcision movement does give some legitimacy to my argument. So many people paint circumcision as this awful, abusive, horrific practice, and, regardless of whether it is or not, when the people who have experienced circumcision are largely indifferent, I think it says something. 

You think it says something, but again..you're operating out of a fundamental disconnect of not caring because you can't and have no reason to.  You;'re indifferent because you don;t remember, but I asked a question about that before..and another just now....you might want to consider this more deeply.  

I was born in Brooklyn and grew up on Long Island. In other words, I was surrounded by Jews. The fact that most men in the area are cut, combined with the medical benefits*, it seemed like an easy decision for my parents to make. And I have yet to feel upset about it.

*I assume you know the benefits already so I won't bother getting into them. And yes, I understand that the benefits may not be enough to warrant the surgery on their own, but in combination with the cultural norms of the area I was born, the decision made perfect sense.

I know the benefits to a clean dick, that you simply assume benefits is, again, at least potentially an artifact of your not giving a shit, swimming within the cultural trends, and imagining that there must be some reason that we do it when that';s not at all why it was or is done.....and accepting those ad hoc rationalizations and equivocations -as- reasons for doing it because they serve the cultural trend and your indifference.

We all do this, about something.  Some of us about many somethings.