The Dudes Doth Protest Too Much, Methinks(an incredibly sexist article about circumcison)

blueoak9 · 2013-03-08T22:05:01+00:00

What a snotty, entitled, trivial little princess she is.

"Call it a-few-inches-below-your-navel-gazing. It's called junk."

Man-hater much, Tina?

Do the planet a favor and go die.

CptSeaCow · 2013-03-08T22:23:58+00:00

Really? Male circumcision?

Sneering.

On Intaction's website there's a woman holding a picket sign that reads: "Circumcision removes the most sensitive part of the penis." Like I said, I'm married, to a dude—therefore (very) skeptical of that claim. There's really no evidence of that being true in any study (funded or anecdotal).

http://www.livescience.com/1624-study-circumcision-removes-sensitive-parts.html

But my main issue is: of all the things that one can chose as the evil they must devote their lives to stamping out ... this is it?

Yes, god forbid that they should choose what they want to protest. God forbid they should want to stop the ritual mutilation of boys.

Not to trivialize anyone's personal connection

But you just did.

It seems rather shortsighted to dedicate a bunch of one's time to being that self-righteous about something that myopic.

And did it again.

What's really disingenuous about this "cause" is the claim that men are the victims of what they call mutilation.

Except that it fits the definition of mutilation perfectly and we call it that when we do it to girls.

They equate male circumcision with female circumcision, which is false.

Oh. You're one of THOSE.

Men have more power than women; historically, currently and otherwise. It's creepy to have superiority and be a crybaby.

Patriarchy theory and creep-shaming all in one.

It's just not more important than the estimated 22 million people with HIV/AIDS—70 percent of the world's cases—in Africa.

Except there's better ways of preventing AIDS than circumcision, like, oh, I dunno... safe sex practices? Education?

5th_Law_of_Robotics · 2013-03-09T00:11:10+00:00

That's right, someone is trying to do something about the AIDS epidemic in Africa and there's a group unrelated to anyone dying of AIDS in Africa protesting one of the tactics. Not because those tactics don't work (there's a lot of evidence that they do), but because they personally don't like them.

If a few clearly biased studies could show that FGM leads to a 2% drop in AIDS transmission would these same people support it?

On Intaction's website there's a woman holding a picket sign that reads: "Circumcision removes the most sensitive part of the penis." Like I said, I'm married, to a dude—therefore (very) skeptical of that claim. There's really no evidence of that being true in any study (funded or anecdotal).

Well I'm married, to a chick, which means I'm an expert on FGM and I say it isn't that bad. I have no data to back this up, I just kinda feel that way.

But my main issue is: of all the things that one can chose as the evil they must devote their lives to stamping out ... this is it? Not famine, war, disease, poverty, pollution, corruption, child abuse, slavery, exploited sex workers . . .

Because there aren't already groups focusing on those.

One could just as easily say "of all the problems in the world (insert same list the author used) why are you focusing on opposing men having the rights to bodily integrity, the same as you'd demand for women?"

Drop_ · 2013-03-09T01:13:45+00:00

Why the fuck do women think they're qualified to write about genital integrity of men in such a dismissive way?

nigglereddit · 2013-03-09T12:45:43+00:00

I'll offer her a deal:

I'd like her to go to a doctor and have her clitoral hood and upper labia removed without anesthetic or pain relief. It'll be a quick procedure although I can't guarantee it won't be excruciatingly painful and humiliating.

I'll pay for the whole procedure. I'm quite serious; I'm a high earner and can afford this without any problems.

When she's done, she can choose whether to continue being in favor of genital mutilation or to retract this article. Do we have a deal?

Falkner09 · 2013-03-09T00:35:11+00:00

I posted some of the many studies showing that it does INDEED cause sensation loss, as well as the real world numbers showing that it't NOT reducing AIDS rates, and in fact may be making it worse.

We'll see if the comments get approved. God I hate people like this, if it's such a small issue,t hen why nto just stop forcing it on people's bodies? Yeah, someone's protestign too much, and it's not me. I think she should look up what that quote actually means BEFORE she gets defensive, because the irony is incredible.

Anyway, now I'm angry, so here's a charity formed to fund foreskin regeneration, please consider donating. Their research is moving along quickly.

memymineown · 2013-03-09T03:14:18+00:00

Don't comment here.

Go comment on the article and let her(and her editor) what you think.

Evets616 · 2013-03-09T11:20:44+00:00

If she's so concerned with people trying to prevent effective AIDS prevention in Africa, I'm sure she's already written repeated about the Catholic Church's deadly stance on condoms.

iamaom · 2013-03-09T04:21:09+00:00

Can someone remind me why its the west's problem to take care of Africa's aids? They gave it to us. Besides, it's not like we're ignoring it, just the other day a frontpage article was posted that (United States) scientists just cured a baby with aids.

Title	The Dudes Doth Protest Too Much, Methinks(an incredibly sexist article about circumcison)
Author	memymineown
Upvotes	97
Comments	22
Date	March 8, 2013 9:02 PM UTC (13 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
Original Link	https://old.reddit.com/r/mensrights/comments/19xm36/the-dudes-doth-protest-too-much-methinksan-/
Archive Link	https://theredarchive.com/r/MensRights/the-dudes-doth-protest-too-much-methinksan.1607799 https://theredarchive.com/post/1607799

Comments