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Imagine someone mutilating your junk at birth and nobody taking offense or seriously believing that’s wrong, downplaying and mocking your concerns of autonomy.

Imagine someone mutilating your junk at birth and nobody taking offense or seriously believing that’s wrong, downplaying and mocking your concerns of autonomy. …Welcome to earth little man, it’s only going to get worse from here.

karlakush 5y ago
I don't have to imagine that. Also, I 100% agree with the people who don't believe it's wrong. I'm very happy to be circumsized and am glad my parents got it done while I was young.
jeroenhd 5y ago
That's a problem localized to a select few countries, luckily. Sadly, in some countries women still face similar (but often much worse) mutilations as well. It's sad that these barbaric practices are still tolerated, but it's not exclusively a male problem.
- darepublic 5y ago
  lol the poster you're replying to is talking about male circumcision. Which I think is legal just about everywhere
- Khaine 5y ago
  And yet the only thing people decry is female genital mutilation. hence the hyporacy and double standards
  - jeroenhd 5y ago
    That's usually because FGM is much worse. However, in my social circle everyone agrees that all kinds of genital mutilation is bad, unless they're done out of medical necessity of course. I haven't personally met anyone who's in favor of doing this to kids. It seems to be purely an American and a religious practice to still do such things.
    - Thiez 5y ago
      I strongly oppose all types, but the symbolic pin-prick variant that is practiced in some places seems to me to be far less of a "mutilation" than ordinary male circumcision. And yet it is considered "female genital mutilation". Now I think that we can all agree that the worst types of FGM are completely deserving of the term mutilation, but it has always struck me as a very double standard that a pin prick that has probably healed completely in a few days is called a mutilation, but literally cutting off a large part of the foreskin, leaving a permanent scar, is not.

karlakush 5y ago

I don't have to imagine that. Also, I 100% agree with the people who don't believe it's wrong. I'm very happy to be circumsized and am glad my parents got it done while I was young.

jeroenhd 5y ago

That's a problem localized to a select few countries, luckily. Sadly, in some countries women still face similar (but often much worse) mutilations as well. It's sad that these barbaric practices are still tolerated, but it's not exclusively a male problem.

darepublic 5y ago
lol the poster you're replying to is talking about male circumcision. Which I think is legal just about everywhere
Khaine 5y ago
And yet the only thing people decry is female genital mutilation. hence the hyporacy and double standards
- jeroenhd 5y ago
  That's usually because FGM is much worse. However, in my social circle everyone agrees that all kinds of genital mutilation is bad, unless they're done out of medical necessity of course. I haven't personally met anyone who's in favor of doing this to kids. It seems to be purely an American and a religious practice to still do such things.
  - Thiez 5y ago
    I strongly oppose all types, but the symbolic pin-prick variant that is practiced in some places seems to me to be far less of a "mutilation" than ordinary male circumcision. And yet it is considered "female genital mutilation". Now I think that we can all agree that the worst types of FGM are completely deserving of the term mutilation, but it has always struck me as a very double standard that a pin prick that has probably healed completely in a few days is called a mutilation, but literally cutting off a large part of the foreskin, leaving a permanent scar, is not.