RFK is an idiot and suggests boys that get circumcized end up autistic more often (because they are given Tylenol for the inflammation and soreness) - He’s such a fuckin’ joke, brother.
Also kinda feels like an antisemitic dog whistle but I could just be SUPER baked.
We should be banning infant genital mutilation for the right reasons.
For real! They keep rooting around non issues to prove some whacko alterverse when there’s so many easy wins RIGHT THERE.
All these people I’ve known think it’s totally normal someone literally cut off piece of my genitals without my consent when I was a baby.
Wtf.
Speaking from personal experience, when you grow up with it removed without any apparent negatives and everyone else treats it as normal then it seems perfectly normal. I don’t miss mine because it wasn’t something I ever remembered having, and all but one of the kids in the gym showers were also snipped so it seemed normal. I was lucky enough to have a competent doctor do it as part of the not supported by evidence ‘more sanitary’ trend so no noticeable downsides.
It isn’t that I’m happy that I’m snipped, just that it doesn’t stand out as something negative either. Honestly it was a benefit when dating because most women my age were used to being snipped as the default. When something is normalized, it seems normal.
I am against religious and other circumcisions that are not medically necessary, because it is ethically wrong. Just explaining why someone could see it as normal.
Honestly if this utter bullshit statement saves even a single kid from getting mutilated, it’s probably net positive
And fuck anyone trying to justify mutilation of kids with their bronze-age fairytale
I don’t think you’re off base with the antisemitism dog whistle - this one ticks both the antisemitism and Islamaphobia boxes so it’s a perfect conspiracy theoryfor the fascists.
I hate my neuro-divergence sometimes because the patterns be patterning BUT everything is so wild these days I have the little but what if this is too tinfoil hat voice a lot.
It’s also such a weird thing to attack in the US where, as of 2014 (newest data point I could find with a quick search) over 75% of males between 14 and 80 were circumcised.
Circumcision? AUTISM!1!!
(The video, compliments of aycn on bsky)
