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I Googled your term and it appears you are just talking about circumcision.
by mikotodomo 5y ago
I Googled your term and it appears you are just talking about circumcision.
- amanaplanacanal 5y ago“Just”. I guess that shows how accepted this kind of mutilation is.
- mikotodomo 5y ago
- Lammy 5y agoIt’s a violation of bodily autonomy no matter how normalized you may consider it.
- mikotodomo 5y agoYeah just like being born, and getting haircuts.
- Lammy 5y agoDunno if you’re being sarcastic but I agree. A person very close to me suffers forced-childhood-haircut trauma
- mikotodomo 5y agoObviously I was being sarcastic.
- dang 5y agoPlease don't post like this, regardless of how wrong someone else is or you feel they are. I realize it's an emotional, activating topic, but we ban accounts that go after other users this way. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
- mikotodomo 5y agoHuh?? First of all, I'm not attacking any user, I replied to 4 different people who replied to my first reaction. I have read the guidelines. Person #1 violates it by disguising a normal accepted thing (circumcision) as "mutilation", which is an emotional and a hyperbolic take. They also tried to bring this up as if it's equivalent or as a pressing concern as the ongoing rampant physical child abuse.
- dang 5y ago"Take your meds" is obviously a personal attack. Not ok here.
- mikotodomo 5y agoOh, I see. Sorry.
- at_a_remove 5y agoWhen it happens to girl babies, it is Female Genital Mutilation. It gets all caps. When it happens to boy babies, it is "just circumcision." Routine. Ignored. Given that it happens in the first week of your life, and before 1982 without any kind of even local anesthetic, try to imagine that your first experience of having any attention paid to your genitals, a nerve-rich area if there ever was one, being strapped to a "Circumstraint" board and having a portion of said genitals simply razored off. Might that result in trauma? It's an interesting question to ask.