It’s interesting how many apparently religious people feel the need to hang out in an atheist community.
To the ~33% people who have downvoted this: you’re literally arguing against a person’s right not to have their body receive unnecessary surgical manipulations until they’re old enough to actually consent to it. Babies are not their parents’ property. Let people decide when they’re adults.
Unfortunately a lot of Americans believe children are the property of their parents. We need a children’s bill of rights.
The UN already has that, the convention on the rights of a child. Every UN country except the United States has signed.
Children don’t pay taxes and cannot vote so good lol with that :-/
Yah this should be true for any action except stuff like important medical surgery due to complications and surgery for facial defects BUT IRREVERSIBLE FORESKIN REMOVAL WITHOUGHT MEDICAL REASONS IS MORALLY WRONG
Do you think that anyone born with a cleft palate, cleft lip, hemangiomas, craniosynostosis, facial palsy, or any corrective jaw surgeries should be told to wait until 18 when all of these procedures are far less effective and far more difficult to do?
Being born with a foreskin isn’t a damn defect!
Brought to you by the same folks who introduced you to: considering a woman’s rape to NOT be a violent crime against the woman, but instead a property crime against her husband/father.
Antiquated bullshit doesn’t belong in this world. If you disagree, go walk across a desert or something.
and americans lol
I agree it should not be done unnecessarily. I’ve hooked up with plenty of men in my lifetime and have seen some grotesque circumcisions.
The worst botched ones I’ve seen are when the skin bridges to the head or when the circumcision was done too tight (and causes issues when erect). More commonly, I’ve seen some pretty gnarly scar tissue along the shaft, but that seems to be less problematic. I am curious if folks with botched circumcisions are still supportive of it, since it’s so ingrained in their culture.
Oh shit! I’ve been wondering all my life why my shaft has that scar going down it. My shit got straight up vandalized on top of mutilated. The fuck…
Broke the cycle with my son. It was insane the amount of people who didn’t even belong to a religion that this is a symptom of, who were pushy about me having it performed. If my son wants to be cut, he can make that decision for himself later in life. All of the atheists I know, were the ones that were anti-mutilation.
isn’t this true for a heap of non Jewish American males too?
Female genital mutilation (FGM), is illegal because it causes numerous health complications, including death, with no benefits whatsoever.
I think that male circumcision is a choice adults should make for themselves. It’s not something that should be forced on kids or babies.
I’m not convinced I want law enforcement to police parents, who want male circumcision performed on their children, when the risks, benefits, and costs are all minimal if performed by a doctor. If a parent really wants to get the procedure performed on their child, then it’s better for the child that they have access to a doctor.
What’s being referenced in the meme is know as Metzitzah B’peh (Direct Oral Suctioning).
This comes with obvious health risks
Having a circumcision done in this manner negates any of the minimal benefits of getting a circumcision done. The only reason to have it done this way is to fulfill a religious rite of passage and since this method can harm the child I don’t see why it should be allowed.
Maybe we could properly fund our public schools and ensure people can get informed about this topic in Sex Ed, so they’re less likely to want this done to their children.
I feel that. I had my foreskin removed due to medical reasons when I was a child. Could not imagine doing that to my child without reason
Ok, so ignoring the meme. What is that? I mean, it’s clearly a hotdog but what is going on here?
Looks to me like a hotdog used as a straw
My wife is European Jewish but not religious. I’m Hispanic. The number of her relatives who asked us about or had an opinion about our baby’s penis was infuriating and alarming. I got a bit harsh with my replies after a while and they clued in and shut up about it.
casually sips their water while they read the comments unfold over a weewee meme I love the internet.
We’re truly Reddit now. This always causes a comment filled thread lol
My most genuine wish would be to see the people caring about mutilation, consent and bodily autonomy to take a look at what we do to non-humans in animal agriculture, apply their convictions consistently and go vegan.
oh i see the casual ever present, repeated, antisemitism has found it’s way over from reddit. great. just great.
Being against genital mutilation is somehow antisemitism now?
I’m continually surprised at the list of things that are “antisemitic” now.
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