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

  • 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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      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