Comment on Texas Republican Primary having a normal one

officermike@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Fokeu@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s still shocking to me how most Americans consider genital mutilation a normal thing.

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  • taiyang@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If it shocks you farther, it’s just a little check box when you have a baby boy. Just a little bit of the paperwork before discharge. You don’t even have to be there, and it’s free. Very strange, all things considered.

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    • porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Free? Free?!! In a hospital, in the U S of A?!!! Ok now I’m really shocked.

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      • MnemonicBump@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It’s not free. It costs hundreds of dollars. The user above may have had it covered by insurance, but that’s a different thing. Entirely NOT free

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    • explodicle@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I watched my little boy like a hawk so they wouldn’t “accidentally” whisk him away and mutilate him.

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    • tomiant@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Do you get to keep the leftovers?

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      • Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Only at hospitals that decline to accept tips.

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      • taiyang@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Nah… they let you keep the placenta, sure, but the doc gets to keep the foreskin for their special baby skin leather doctor’s coats.

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  • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    My mutilated american dick thanks you for your concern 😔

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• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Really can’t be overstated how different “female circumcision” is from the male version.

  Like comparing ear piercings to ear cropping.

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  • glimse@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Saying they’re the same is bad but comparing circumcision to ear piercing is even worse. Piercings heal, that foreskin is gone forever.

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    • Mac@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Speak for yourself. My dad gave me mine on my 18th birthday and i planted it in the garden.

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      • Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You sprout some wood?

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  • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    So do you think the mild forms of FGM should be allowed because those are pretty comparable to the male one? Personally I think both should be banned.

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    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I think banning circumcision runs you into many of the same problems that are encountered with banning abortion or gender transition. Or tattoos and ear piercings, for that matter. Or drinking.

      You can scare physicians/professionals into refusing to perform it. But then you deal with all the amateurs and their consequences.

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      • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Gender transition and abortion are also illegal to do without consent

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  • lena@gregtech.eu ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They should both be banned

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  • SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Please elaborate on how Type IIa (by World Health Organization standards) differs so greatly.

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    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Please elaborate on how Type IIa

      defined as the removal of the labia minora

      two hairless, highly sensitive cutaneous folds located within the labia majora, surrounding the vaginal and urethral openings

      :-/

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      • SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Hmm, since prepuce (foreskin) is a hairless, highly-sensitive cutaneous fold covering and protecting the glans, why is it okay to remove one, but not the other? Or, since they derive from the same zygotic tissue and are homologous, why is it not okay to excise the clitoral hood?

        I keep asking these questions, and nobody ever has a good answer, and the only difference that I can divine is that one is okay because it’s done to boys.

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• GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Thank you for mentioning this. I don’t even have that set of equipment, and it boggles my mind that this is normal and acceptable to anyone. Even using religion as a reason just seems ridiculous. Why the hell would you ever cause that much physical pain to a child for a cosmetic procedure?

  “Oh, they’re transing the kids!” Fucker, you asked your doctor to cut off part of your son’s junk before he even developed the capacity to lift his own head. Shut the fuck up.

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  • JennyLaFae@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Haha, oh honey circumcision may be the most common genital mutilation procedure, but wait til you learn how those transphobic motherfuckers write exceptions for coercive intersex surgeries into their anti trans laws.

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