feminist: Post from my own LJ

Ruadhan J McElroy (

newdance) wrote in

feminist,
@ 2004-12-08 17:28:00

Post from my own LJ
( Circumcision)

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xigua
2004-12-08 10:51 pm UTC (link)

I'm not cut, but I've experienced what I need to see, and I would like to be.

And I would like for every guy to see for themselves and choose. I don't care if it's your religion, it's not your right. (I'm sorry, I have just as much beef with Judaism as I do with Christianity..not sure about proper Islam as I haven't seen any through the whole "OMG TERRORISTS LOL" media crap. Also, never go to orthodox Williamsburg, Brooklyn, ever ever EVER.)

By the way, it's a shame that it's easier to masturbate when you don't have a foreskin. You can't pull it back (motion is really restricted) until around when you start grade school. ..Though, I'm not sure why they'd want to masturbate before grade school.

Anyway, I've had relatives whose mothers decided not to circumcise them, and not only that, but to rip the foreskin back and scrub under it. That's probably worse than circumcising him in the first place.

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newdance
2004-12-08 10:56 pm UTC (link)

Well, yes, it's probably worse -- cos they were uneducated or wrongly educated.

It's like how, in the US, women are taught that tampons are the best or only internal menstrual option (even though there are other options) and then aren't told until after they aggrivate cervical or uterine cancer that they're told of other options and that the BLEACH in tampons probably helped the cancer come earlier.

Americans are some of the most poorly educated people on the planet and, bizarrely, they believe they're the most advanced.

	kattheripper 2004-12-09 07:26 pm UTC (link)
	yes islam does perscribe circumscision. I think that's a trait of all Abrahamic religons. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	tubesy 2004-12-08 11:01 pm UTC (link)
	Ditto. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	I repeat: newdance 2004-12-08 11:02 pm UTC (link)
	John Harvey Kellogg first marked infant male circumcision as a means of stamping out masturbation. Don't you DARE tell me that male circumcision isn't about infringing upon one's sexuality. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	auroraluna 2004-12-08 11:48 pm UTC (link)
	I agree. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	frightened 2004-12-08 11:01 pm UTC (link)
	Also, any chance you could warn people that they're going to see a naked bloke if they click that link? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	newdance 2004-12-08 11:05 pm UTC (link)
	Well, my LiveJournal exists to give my friends-list and my readers more wang each week than they'd normally get. LiveJournal has the option of using Image Placeholders if you don't want to see certain images. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	xigua 2004-12-08 11:05 pm UTC (link)
	Anesthesia apparently makes the skin there weird so they can't work. Instead, as my friend informed me (she saw her brother's bris), they get the baby drunk. Which I find strange. Drunk =/= Unconscious (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	xigua 2004-12-08 11:38 pm UTC (link)
	There's nothing you could possibly do to get sand/dirt under it..well, there is, but nobody usually masturbates while buried underground. Besides. How many people could possibly have HPV? It's like cutting off someone's toes to prevent athlete's foot. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	Shameless flogging of community anngwish42 2004-12-08 11:32 pm UTC (link)
	Could you re-post this to cut_uncut, the circumcision debate community? I'd be interested to see the response you get. And FWIW, I think the difference between male circumcision and female genital mutilation is not a difference in kind, but it's definitely a difference in degree. Not that I'm a fan of circumcision - my son's intact. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	Re: Shameless flogging of community newdance 2004-12-09 06:24 am UTC (link)
	OK, I just got back from dinner-and-movie with the ex-husband, so a-crossposting I shall go. :) (Reply to this) (Parent)

	auroraluna 2004-12-08 11:41 pm UTC (link)
	"In females, the author has found the application of pure carbolic acid to the clitoris an excellent means of allaying the abnormal excitement." What a psycho. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	newdance 2004-12-08 11:58 pm UTC (link)
	Yes, yes he was. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	angelvomit 2004-12-08 11:43 pm UTC (link)
	Thank you very much for saying things in a way most people yell at me for. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	newdance 2004-12-08 11:59 pm UTC (link)
	No problem. I usually do that -- some people say it's a fault, I say it's an underappreciated virtue. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	jfpbookworm 2004-12-09 01:35 am UTC (link)
	Eh, whatever. It may not be the best thing to inflict on an infant, but I find that most of the anti-circumcision discussion online centers around telling people that they ought to feel victimized (with a halfhearted justification that it's "for the children" which I don't buy because of the sort of forums the discussion inevitably takes place in), and what good is that? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	yakkette 2004-12-09 05:36 am UTC (link)
	Word. It seems that they engage in the sort of "culture of victimization" that anti-feminists accuse feminists of so often. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	twowayaddiction 2004-12-09 02:08 am UTC (link)
	haha. meaty wang, indeed. (Reply to this)

	newdance 2004-12-09 06:29 am UTC (link)
	No it's not required. I know what I'm talking about. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	hyoung 2004-12-09 10:33 pm UTC (link)
	I often cry when I try and think about the time they cut off my foreskin. I'm sure it would be very traumatic if I could remember. Does anyone really care about this issue? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	childings 2004-12-09 11:30 pm UTC (link)
	Yes. I do. Why remove anything from your body like that? It was put there for a reason. And sex is a lot more pleasurable when there is foreskin on the penis. Otherwise it feels similiar to a peg roughly popping in and out of a hole to me. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

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	childings 2004-12-09 11:32 pm UTC (link)
	Whoops, I should have wrote "inside my labia". O_o; (Reply to this) (Parent)

	newdance 2004-12-10 01:25 pm UTC (link)
	PLONK! (Reply to this)

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