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San Francisco to Vote on Circumcision Ban

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Interesting Times5/19/2011 8:49:09 am PDT

re: #87 Obdicut

I’m a big favor of harm reduction vs. absolutism, so I think that’s a fantastic idea

I absolutely don’t, and there was a huge, huge outcry at the time:

Do they think that by compromising on this issue, that they will keep the monsters who want to do this to their children from running away to more extreme practitioners of this kind of torture? Do they think that by compromising and keeping the patriarchal, misogynistic assholes who want to do this to their baby girls “in the fold” they’ll be able to “exert influence” on them to move these so-called parents in a more humane direction?

I’ve got news for them. It won’t work. It only serves to legitimize the entire concept of genital mutilation. There can be no compromise with these motherfuckers.

Then the author goes on to say:

Please don’t hijack this discussion with remarks equating male circumcision with FGM. It’s irrelevant to this discussion, and in comparison to what victims of FGM have lost, male circumcision is fucking trivial. I say this as a male who has been circumsized.

So he agrees with you on that point.