why does the US still just routinely mutilate children? fuck john kellogg's eugenicist corn flake ass

  • Kropotkins_Bread [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Yeah, this is bullshit. My sister, among others, mutilated both her sons because she thinks intact members look "gross." I have heard similar sentiments, and their ensuing mutilations, from women in similar demos.

    • TankieTanuki [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      I didn't say that women don't participate in the genital cutting culture. Men are just more likely to give strong pushback to criticism of the practice because it's more personal. It also happens to be that almost all of the medical authorities and researchers responsible for endorsing and promoting circumcision are circumcised men, and they bear the most blame.

      • Kropotkins_Bread [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        No, you just claimed that men hold the reins. This was almost certainly true once. At least in the U.S., not anymore - male mutilation has become a cultural issue as the “scientific” basis is questioned and the absolute rate drops. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hestat/circumcision_2013/circumcision_2013.pdf

        Men are just more likely to give strong pushback to criticism of the practice because it’s more personal

        Do you have any sources for that argument? Or just an assertion about their psychosexual rationalizations?

        It also happens to be that almost all of the medical authorities and researchers responsible for endorsing and promoting circumcision are circumcised men

        Do you know that? Or do you just infer that they’re cut?

        • TankieTanuki [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          https://en.intactiwiki.org/index.php/Adamant_father_syndrome

          https://en.intactiwiki.org/index.php/Psychological_issues_of_male_circumcision#Circumcised_medical_doctors