• stella@lemm.ee
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    He’s probably talking about circumcision.

    When applied to females, it’s called Female Genital Mutilation.

    When applied to males, it’s just called circumcision.

    Both are barbaric and unnecessary practices to conduct routinely without a direct medical need.

    Fun facts: Egypt still mutilates their girls. Americans mutilate their boys because their dads don’t want to admit something is wrong with their penises, so they fuck up their sons’ too.

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      1 year ago

      Probably, but people who are against gender affirming surgeries would also use the term mutilation, so it can be a bit of a vague term

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        That’s what happens when you try to use emotional language instead of specifics.

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          Yeah, “mutilation” is pretty charged. Maybe just “modification”, which would include gender affirming types, even the ones for intersex people that bigots will ask for.

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      Fucking Amen. I can’t believe, especially non-religious people, still commit this barbaric and unnecessary act. But some people are still under the quaker influenced thinking that circumcision means cleaner, both my mother in law and my step mother think it’s “gross” to leave a child uncircumcised, with my mother in law going as far as to say “it just looks bad”.

      Cool, she basically admitted she’s down to mutilate babies to satisfy a completely unreasonable aesthetic preference.

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      Well, there’s other varieties of male GM as well, although you hear less about them. For example, slicing it open lengthwise, either fully or just to “unroll” it.

      There is a definite double standard for the one kind of GM white people do. It’s all bad before a child can consent, and some of the female forms are pretty comparable to circumcision, so maybe we can “get off our high horse”.