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It's ironic because the whole reason I'm even here on lemmy is because I was permabanned from reddit for telling someone to crawl back in their hole because they were defending circumcision while claiming female genital mutilation was abhorrent. As if mutilating a penis is perfectly fine but don't dare mutilate a vulva.
I know this isn't the main topic here but it just reminds me that body shaming men is okay but body shaming women isn't. Especially when it comes to sex organs.
Yeah, I love how everyone loves "big dick energy" and "small dick energy", but if someone said "loose pussy energy" and "tight pussy energy" it's practically a hate crime lol.
How about we just stop insulting anyone's genitals instead?
That's the point.
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Turn around and put your hands behind your back.
STOP RESISTING
Wait... We're still arresting people for hate crimes?
From recent news I thought committing hate crimes and war crimes should get me a political appointment! I must be doing this wrong.
Hate crimes? No we just decided that your tattoo and lack of criminal record means that you're a highly connected member of a Venezuela street gang, acting as a foreign operative and combatant on US soil.
Don't say goodbye to your kids, they're going with you, unless you can arrange for childcare for the foreseeable future in the next 2 minutes over the phone.
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Oh, and we would tack on a hate-crime charge, plus vulgarity for mentioning body parts in public, but you're not getting a court date anyway, so don't worry about those.
I feel like your argument loses something by being stated backwards. It (and Hacksaws reply) comes off sounding like you are more angry at women than the patriarchy and want to be able to mutilate and body shame them. Rather than what I hope and assume is the case, that you want all genitals protected from mutilation and shaming.
Yeah maybe I missed the /s but I just wanted to show that body shaming and genital mutilation is fucked up and society's (patriarchy) acceptance of it against men is pretty shitty overall. It would be much better if nobody got body shamed or mutilated non-consentually.
I'm just bringing up the double standard. You're correct in your assumption that I don't want ANY genitals being mutilated.
But it's not patriarchal that circumcision is normalized for aesthetical reasons. Women circumcise their sons because they don't like uncut penises. I've NEVER heard a man say anything like that outside of not wanting their child to feel different because other boys are all circumcised. Women do it for aesthetics. Men do it because of a fear of being different. There's a difference.
It shouldn't be done at all but the idea that uncut penises look gross is inherently a woman thing.
I think a lot of people make a very reasonable argument that a huge reason this anxiety even exists is because of patriarchy
Sometimes it not some patriarchy conspiracy. Just sometimes.
Nobody said it’s a conspiracy. It’s practically a natural phenomenon. Why would anybody be afraid that their child would look different from the other boys? Because they don’t want the other boys to bully him. Why do we all know that the other boys would bully him? Well, the good news is there’s a lot of research on this topic but the unfortunate thing is if you wanna learn more, you’ll have to engage with a word you don’t seem to like for some reason.
It's the same reason men want their sons to play sports and do manly things. Most of the dads pushing the patriarchal agenda aren't doing it out of some hyper masculine superego, they just want their kids to fit in. The really sad part is that it's because they know what it's like to not fit in. They perpetuate the trauma because they were traumatized.
I've never heard a woman say they did or would have their baby boy circumcised because uncircumcised penises are gross, or any other version of aesthetic reasons. The religious reasons are rooted in the patriarchy, as is the "need" to look like one's father and male relatives.
In the case of female circumcision, it's a way of enforcing the position of women as property, making it more apparent if she's ever had sex so her virginity can be sold to her husband. In its most extreme forms it can require she be cut open in order to give birth, and resewn each time. It can block clumps of menstrual blood and lead to infection and sepsis. In less extreme versions it can prevent her from feeling any pleasure during sex, in order to prevent her from having any except that imposed by her husband.
Anecdotally, I've known more mothers who fought for their child not to be circumcised than fathers. I fully encourage men to put their feet down on this issue too. This is very often a battle that the parent who cares more wins on.
Aesthetics are the most often cited reason for male circumcision in the USA. It is rarely medically necessary, and only religiously motivated among Jewish people.
Fathers wanting their boy to look "like all the other little boys" is aesthetics
It would be aesthetics if fathers did it because they think it looks better. But that's not what's happening. They do it over fear that their sons will be ostracised for having different looking dicks. That's a social reason, not an aesthetic one.
The social situation in which the other naked little boys ostracize the one with a different dick is patriarchal. Must conform to the "normal" masculine standard. Otherwise the fathers could just teach all the little boys to be more accepting.
As for women, I've been in plenty of women -only places where there was frank talk about men's anatomy, and the general consensus has always been, we can love any and all penises as long as the owner isn't a dick.
Fathers and mothers. Both parents need to sign off on the procedure.