"Off With Their D--ks"

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And very very few of us who were circumcised are whining about it.

I am sure you had no intention to harm anyone, but your comment is not acceptable in this state.

Your personal assessment of the "procedure" might deviate from that of others for a variety of reasons, none of which, however, could even remotely justify the assessment of efforts to put an end to these atrocities as "whining", a term that does not accurately reflect the basic human rights and anti-misandry efforts undertaken in this context.

If you were criticizing the fact that too many men just accept or even approve of the fact that their parents decided, someone perpetrated and society allowed for them to be subjected to such torture and mutilation, then you need to make sure that this becomes clearer in order to prevent such serious misunderstandings. Note that being circumcized as the result of a genuinely voluntary decision is an acceptable option either way (if there were no coercive norms/shaming/etc. at play...).

The routine torture and mutilation of male children, at times experienced as sexual and met with ridicule, humiliation and the enjoyment of the boy's suffering and distress, are hard to describe in their extreme severity. It is fortunate that some men take a stand against what was done to them and realize that being able to do so (doing what was done to them or making someone else do it to them) necessitates a deficiency in the evaluation of men's value and rights on the part of all parties involved. Even though some might not remember or turn out to prefer the altered state of their body, they can still realize that having been stripped of that decision by their parents and all other parties involved, who decided to subject their child to a barbaric mutilation instead of leaving it to them to undergo voluntary surgery later on, constitute manifestations of a disturbing disregard for their rights and them as the people they were not treated as.

The trauma associated with the realization that those supposed to be closest to you were able to do something like that - with some even having been made aware of the actual proceedings beforehand, yet still having it done to their child - is (as would have to be expected) hardly tolerable for at least some of those victims who finally allowed themselves the respect and value to reach that conclusion.

The term "whining" in relation to this matter did not reflect the bare minimum regard for men, their issues or their experiences, even if the latter might differ from your own, and is thus not acceptable. Again, perhaps you did not intend for your statement to carry these connotations, in which case I would ask you to be more careful when talking about it in the future.