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| 0 | Confession: I had my son circumcised as a newborn before I understood how awful a practice it was, and now I feel sick to my stomach whenever I think about it.I said Good Day! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0Rjn6W9jYk | /r/MensRights | 11/01/14 07:31 PM |
| 0 | Confession: I had my son circumcised as a newborn before I understood how awful a practice it was, and now I feel sick to my stomach whenever I think about it.I'm not making a request, simply pointing out the obvious. The fact that there are literally hundreds (if not thousands) of other redditors that have made similar statements is all the proof I need. In a site where the ratio of men to women is 2:1, this sub continues to crawl at a slow pace with under 100,000 subscribers. You have not once made an attempt to prove that "scare tactics" are the right way forward. You have simply made attempt after attempt to label me, to generalize my thoughts, an… | /r/MensRights | 11/01/14 03:58 PM |
| 0 | Confession: I had my son circumcised as a newborn before I understood how awful a practice it was, and now I feel sick to my stomach whenever I think about it.Changing an argument away from scare tactics NOT= shutting down protests. You are so focused on tree that you cannot see the forest. I wish you luck in overcoming your personal struggles. | /r/MensRights | 10/01/14 05:27 PM |
| 2 | My biggest problem with this subI somewhat agree with your points, but I don't think these issues are isolated to MR or even the grouping of various political/rights minded subs. In some ways, I suspect that this is a strength/limitation of how Reddit operates by design. In many ways, I agree that the repetitive posts of individual experiences seem to detract from an overall message. However, I also see the point that the trend of many helps to make the case for a larger argument. I've seen discussions in other threads about w… | /r/MensRights | 10/01/14 07:54 AM |
| 0 | Confession: I had my son circumcised as a newborn before I understood how awful a practice it was, and now I feel sick to my stomach whenever I think about it.Or maybe, just maybe, some of them are trying to give you some (from their perspective) helpful advice. I jumped through quite a few hoops for you, and made a decent case that you have not "pegged me accurately". Perhaps you should consider it genuine, honest input instead of starting with the assumption that everyone who doesn't agree with you 100% must agree with you 0%. I've stayed consistently on task, not seeking to disagree or devalue anyone's specific experience or render facts invalid be… | /r/MensRights | 10/01/14 07:24 AM |
| 0 | Confession: I had my son circumcised as a newborn before I understood how awful a practice it was, and now I feel sick to my stomach whenever I think about it.Hmm, let's take a look at some top posts: This one covers not just circumcision, but quite a few of the MRM talking points. Notice how the comment beneath received more upvotes, speaking in favor of more civil dialogue. http://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/qh8x8/this_subreddit_needs_to_shake_off_its_antiwomen/c3xl85s Here's one where a guy suggests that arguing against emotional people can be difficult. That person is you. http://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/v22oj/i_said_circumcis… | /r/MensRights | 09/01/14 06:25 AM |
| 0 | Confession: I had my son circumcised as a newborn before I understood how awful a practice it was, and now I feel sick to my stomach whenever I think about it.Asking a handful of men to grow up and start communicating like mature adults is the opposite of silence. The fact that you still haven't realized this point after so many posts is beyond mind blowing. After reading more of the historical posts on the topic, its clear that a handful of angry little boys is determined to ruin this subreddit for many others. Now I know why so few bother to help. Its sad, really. You are your own worst enemy at this point. | /r/MensRights | 09/01/14 03:53 AM |
| 0 | Confession: I had my son circumcised as a newborn before I understood how awful a practice it was, and now I feel sick to my stomach whenever I think about it.So even though I agree with the movement on the basis of self-determination, I am an enemy because I suggest that people shouldn't run around acting like assholes? You've got a special little group here. Carry on! Bask in the glory of isolation and insignificance. Glad to know you are more interested in the right to use offensive techniques than actually affecting change and improving rights. It appears that having a foreskin, can in fact, make you a bigger dick. | /r/MensRights | 09/01/14 03:34 AM |
| 0 | Confession: I had my son circumcised as a newborn before I understood how awful a practice it was, and now I feel sick to my stomach whenever I think about it.Tone is only mentioned to those stupid enough to aggressively offend the very people they are attempting to convince of their plight. Civil rights started making progress because folks like MLK Jr. decided to use more intelligent dialogue and provided logical reasons instead of emotional turmoil. But keep at it. If insulting your audience means you turn away 90% of them, it will simply mean taking that much longer to accomplish your goal. | /r/MensRights | 08/01/14 06:59 AM |
| 0 | Confession: I had my son circumcised as a newborn before I understood how awful a practice it was, and now I feel sick to my stomach whenever I think about it.Edit: A quick search for circumcision on Reddit reveals that posts about it in /r/MensRights haven't broken 500. I rest my case. | /r/MensRights | 08/01/14 12:46 AM |
| 0 | Confession: I had my son circumcised as a newborn before I understood how awful a practice it was, and now I feel sick to my stomach whenever I think about it.When time after time, people keep telling you that your tone sucks and is driving people away, you'd think you would get the hint. Just because some doesn't add something uniquely new to the argument doesn't mean that they aren't contributing. If people downvoted this with precision, then most of the posts on the subject would get downvoted to hell because they are like a record player. It's traumatic, the circumcised penis is a shameful creature, and someone who had done this to their child has… | /r/MensRights | 07/01/14 11:35 PM |
| 0 | Confession: I had my son circumcised as a newborn before I understood how awful a practice it was, and now I feel sick to my stomach whenever I think about it.A quick look at my karma proves otherwise. I'm saying what many others have said in the past, and will continue to say until the anti-circumcision movement decides they actually want to make progress. Insulting men who are already circumcised isn't going to help you gain traction and forward your cause. Trying to make men feel shame about the appearance (or size) of their penis is a bad move. Trying to induce fear by making rare events seem common will backfire. Downvotes prove that a subset are… | /r/MensRights | 07/01/14 09:21 PM |
| 0 | Confession: I had my son circumcised as a newborn before I understood how awful a practice it was, and now I feel sick to my stomach whenever I think about it.Nope. I'm arguing against the whiny, combative and aggressive methods used by some of the anti-circumcision folks. Downvotes prove my point. | /r/MensRights | 07/01/14 08:00 PM |
| -5 | Confession: I had my son circumcised as a newborn before I understood how awful a practice it was, and now I feel sick to my stomach whenever I think about it.No worries. I wanted to acknowledge your advice. I could have gone back and edited a prior post, but I personally like to see where stream of thought plays out relative to input from others. | /r/MensRights | 06/01/14 11:44 PM |
| -8 | Confession: I had my son circumcised as a newborn before I understood how awful a practice it was, and now I feel sick to my stomach whenever I think about it.I agree with your advice. I was attempting to tackle a bigger problem than one introduced by OP. I was venting about a collective of issues gathered while lurking in an unproductive way. I've seen "Male Privilege" used sarcastically so much in the past month I thought maybe they were going to rename this subreddit. I will endeavor to be less trite and more constructive in my responses. My references to "bigger issues" wasn't limited to the field of research. I was referring to the various issues… | /r/MensRights | 06/01/14 11:03 PM |
| -10 | Confession: I had my son circumcised as a newborn before I understood how awful a practice it was, and now I feel sick to my stomach whenever I think about it.No, my prediction was about what would happen if the medical community suddenly lost its collective mind and started focusing its efforts on growing foreskin. I've never doubted that it could be done. I've never said it shouldn't be done. Once someone has figured out how to grow tissue & nerves, they will find ways to apply it all over the body. I suspect a major amount of the "bread & butter" surgeries tied to skin re-growth will be the removal of tattoos and stretch marks. They might even disc… | /r/MensRights | 06/01/14 08:34 PM |
| -10 | Confession: I had my son circumcised as a newborn before I understood how awful a practice it was, and now I feel sick to my stomach whenever I think about it.I can only assume that the swarm of downvotes means the collective MensRights has spoken. Fuck cancer, dementia & death. Focus on foreskin or we will burn this place to the ground! | /r/MensRights | 06/01/14 08:14 PM |
| -6 | Confession: I had my son circumcised as a newborn before I understood how awful a practice it was, and now I feel sick to my stomach whenever I think about it.Riots was a bit tongue-in-cheek I hope that by the time such a procedure is available, the majority of boys being born will not need it due to the fact that won't have been circumcised. In my mind, becoming a thing is like the swarm of parents rushing to have their kids tested for ADD and looking for a pill to help when they probably should just limit their TV & video game time. I am NOT seeking to belittle those who have experienced physical problems due to circumcision. I AM seeking to avoid a… | /r/MensRights | 06/01/14 06:57 PM |
| -17 | Confession: I had my son circumcised as a newborn before I understood how awful a practice it was, and now I feel sick to my stomach whenever I think about it.TIL - A practice dating back literally thousands of years should come to an end in a matter of months because we've got a really good argument going that uses an almost unique combination of selling points: Fear, Guilt & Shame. And while we realize that the abortion argument was wrapped up in a matter of days using the same technique, we are using something even more powerful to expedite: Downvotes! | /r/MensRights | 06/01/14 05:26 PM |
| -14 | Confession: I had my son circumcised as a newborn before I understood how awful a practice it was, and now I feel sick to my stomach whenever I think about it.TIL - As many as 80% of American women have had a type 1 female circumcision. | /r/MensRights | 06/01/14 05:12 PM |
| -6 | Confession: I had my son circumcised as a newborn before I understood how awful a practice it was, and now I feel sick to my stomach whenever I think about it.If those articles pointed to stories and journal articles about research done using stem cells to regrow foreskin, using NIH grant money and millions in donations, then yes, I would predict riots. But they aren't. They are doing things in the right order. Deal with loss of life and major traumas first, minor traumas later. No riots. | /r/MensRights | 06/01/14 04:42 PM |
| -8 | Confession: I had my son circumcised as a newborn before I understood how awful a practice it was, and now I feel sick to my stomach whenever I think about it.circumcision NOT= child molestation I won't list the many reasons why drawing that conclusion is insulting. The vast majority of boys/men have zero recollection of the event. Their is nothing to recover from emotionally, and the physical recovery is usually quite short. I'm not saying it doesn't happen for some, or that when it does it isn't significant or valid. I'm saying that when you try to convince someone by getting them with the "feels", you cannot do it when a vast majority of them are u… | /r/MensRights | 06/01/14 04:36 PM |
| -5 | Confession: I had my son circumcised as a newborn before I understood how awful a practice it was, and now I feel sick to my stomach whenever I think about it.Foreskin NOT= arm I wouldn't miss it, no, because I never had it begin with. But I might start to hate you for doing it once I started hanging out with other kids and saw them playing sports, hugging & clapping. Thankfully, our penis doesn't grow out of our shoulder and it isn't nearly as useful as pornos would have us believe. After the Sandy Hook reference, I probably deserve an extremely ridiculous example as a counter argument, but for the sake of the OP, let's not get too sidetracked. You w… | /r/MensRights | 06/01/14 04:11 PM |
| 0 | How to stop people from circumcising their children- some excellent posts by mensright users geared towards activism.I made some comments on a related post: http://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/1uixd1/_/ceinde1 In short, I don't think fear, shame or guilt are the right tools for any debate. It's counterproductive. Most people react strongly, and won't hear the rest of the message. Even though this IS more than just a medical issue, I think the key to education is more studies/research and better data. Once it's there, you engage professionals to discuss it. Pediatricians, psychologists, sex education te… | /r/MensRights | 06/01/14 03:34 PM |
| -10 | Confession: I had my son circumcised as a newborn before I understood how awful a practice it was, and now I feel sick to my stomach whenever I think about it.You absolutely can. But please, donate money to basic stem cell research and larger efforts first. As a person who works in healthcare and has been around medical research for the past decade, I can tell you that it's the work around major efforts like cancer, Alzheimer's, heart disease, etc. that will get us the results we need to start our next generation of medical breakthroughs. Continue to discuss, inform, and seek more knowledge. But be practical and remember that the big money efforts ten… | /r/MensRights | 06/01/14 02:10 PM |
| -9 | Confession: I had my son circumcised as a newborn before I understood how awful a practice it was, and now I feel sick to my stomach whenever I think about it.No. I'm saying that thinking about one's penis too much is a bad thing. Using fear to get one's message across WAS dumb then and IS dumb now. Calling it genital mutilation and pointing to anecdotal events where circumcision went wrong is the WRONG way to push the message. Now we have parents overthinking this event and believing that they traumatized their child. In most cases, they really haven't. Most men don't remember it, could care less about it, and are happy as long as their partner is ha… | /r/MensRights | 06/01/14 01:55 PM |
| -22 | Confession: I had my son circumcised as a newborn before I understood how awful a practice it was, and now I feel sick to my stomach whenever I think about it.Exactly. If foreskin regrowth actually becomes a thing, I think I'll become sick to my stomach whenever I think about it. People bitch about Viagra to no end (despite the fact that the medicine came from research on vasodilators and initially had nothing to do with ED), could you imagine the rage if the first thing we grow back from stem cells isn't something important to the masses (such as major nerve/organs/skin for burn victims, eyeballs, etc..) but rather foreskin or labia? I predict riots.… | /r/MensRights | 06/01/14 01:31 PM |
| -1 | Confession: I had my son circumcised as a newborn before I understood how awful a practice it was, and now I feel sick to my stomach whenever I think about it.People doing things because they thought it was healthier or made them more attractive has been a valid reason since the beginning of humankind. We should strive to make the best decisions based on information at the time. If the WHO recommendation for circumcision (which stands in place now in Sub-Saharan Africa) had been in place globally in the 1960's & 70's, there is a chance that HIV/AIDS would never have spread. But its insane to use that as a reason that everyone should be circumcised. I … | /r/MensRights | 06/01/14 01:18 PM |
| 1 | Confession: I had my son circumcised as a newborn before I understood how awful a practice it was, and now I feel sick to my stomach whenever I think about it.Or they might find it exotic because it isn't like the others and it has a neat accent. | /r/MensRights | 06/01/14 12:59 PM |
| -4 | Confession: I had my son circumcised as a newborn before I understood how awful a practice it was, and now I feel sick to my stomach whenever I think about it.I've never really understood the various extreme emotions surrounding this topic. The ONLY point should be to make sure that it is includeded in medical and religious discussions between two expecting parents and their peer group. It should be talked about in sex-ed classes and similar forums so that people can make informed choices, but all the attention this topic gets kinda pulls away from the much more pressing issues for the MRM, in my opinion. Like slavery, beating sick people with a stick… | /r/MensRights | 06/01/14 12:51 PM |
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