uh. the point is that a lot of men who were circumcized at birth DO feel it's the worst thing in the world, or at least the worst thing to happen to them. why do you think people complain about it so much?
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I don't know why they complain about something that they don't know about. I can't complain about something that I haven't experienced the other side. My penis works just fine the way it is...I have more than enough sensitivity. These people who say they have repressed memories about being cut and stuff is just a bunch of hogwash. There's no way that they can remember back to being a few days old. One of my college roomates was cut over a Christmas vacation our junior year due to phimosis and some recurring infections because he couldn't retract his foreskin properly. His doctor wanted to just make a small incision to loosen the foreskin, my roomate said that he told the doctor if he was going to cut it at all, to just take it off. He says it was the best thing he did, he prefers it now--being CUT, and wished his parents had it done to him as a baby so he wouldn't have had the trouble of going through it as an adult.
fuck their religious identity in the eye-socket. I'm so fucking fed up with hearing religion cited as some unassailably reasonable justification for every retarded thing people do. religion is not sacrosanct, it's not justifiable, and it's not even slightly clever.
You're not religious, you hate religion, I'm not going to even discuss this point with you.
... and therein lies the entire problem, because (since I assume you haven't been paying attention) the bottom line is that fathers or anyone else have NO RIGHT to have their sons cut. no matter what anyone might think about the reasons or benefits of circumcision for themselves, they do NOT have the right to make that decision for anyone else - least of all the human lives they have taken it upon themselves to create and raise. children are NOT extensions of their parents, and it's long, LONG past time all the idiots who should never have been allowed to breed realized that.
It doesn't matter that it's the right or isn't the right...you don't understand the culture in the South or the Midwest for that matter. The American South is a place that is totally like anywhere else in the world. When you get into the rural areas, it is the land that time forgot...society is still living with cultural mores from 50 or 60 years ago in some areas. Things do not change quickly. The mentality is that if it was good enough for my daddy, it's good enough for me, and it will be good enough for my son... That type of thinking will carry on for generations. That is how people buy cars, where they buy farm implements, where they buy animal feed, which church they go to, which college they go to, etc. It's just a fact that in traditional areas, most White kids are going to be circumcised...you might not like it, but it's the way it is. All my friends are cut, the ones with sons all have had them cut. It was no question. It's just the way it's done. You may not think it's right, but it's just the way people in this area think--it's the cultural mindset.