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Firstly: wow, an actual unpopular opinion!
Secondly: I will go so far as to say absolutely tooooons of people wear earrings that I personally find extremely silly, unfashionable, or outright gross.
Sorry ear plug people. They look goofy when theyre in and they look horrifying when theyre out.
Probably this opinion of mine comes from knowing a person who managed to get their ... ear loop? caught on something and tear apart.
Also: I think its child abuse to force a 3 to 9 year old to get their ears pierced.
I used to date a person who worked at a Claire's... and they would tell me that they would often, as in multiple times a week, have a family of recent immigrants from... India? Bangladesh? ... come into the store, and they would have to physically restrain a screaming obviously unwilling child to get their ears pierced.
Anyway: I think it is too far to agree that earrings in general are just bad all the time, but there are lots of cases where theyre done poorly.
The fools, they should have told that child from the day they were born that they couldn't have pierced ears until they were at least 12. The kid would start wheedling for it at 6 and they could "give in" at 8. The child would still cry after the first ear, but would sit still and say thank you afterwards.
Here it's normal to do it to your toddler.
In America it's "normal" to cut off part of your kid's dick, doesn't make it right.
I mean, I’m tattooed and pierced, and I still don’t personally agree with piercing children’s ears either. IMHO that’s a rather personal choice and should be made by the person itself, not parents. But IMHO, objectively speaking, it makes no sense to put both on the same level.
A tiny earring like kids get is about 20-18g - in the sub-millimetre range. Unless you go at a shitty venue with terrible hygienic practices, these things stop hurting in minutes, stop being sore after mere hours, a day or two tops, and are pretty much as reversible as can be. There’s very little “bad” about it except a child crying for a minute or two - and that already happens hundreds of times a day, when they get vaccines, when they wait a minute while you prepare their bottle, when they’re tired, or honestly, just cause they feel like shit and can’t tell you cause they don’t speak yet.
Chopping off foreskins has zero use outside religious belief or medically motivated surgeries, and has long-term, irreversible medical implications.
I still don’t agree with the act, but not all evil is created equal…
Did you think I thought it made it okay?