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Circumcision is genital mutilation.
What’s interesting about that one is that as best I can tell, it’s only millennials who got caught up on this. Gen X didn’t care and as best I can tell, Zoomers don’t either.
I'm Gen X and I agree with OP.
The most vitriolic responses were from fathers who don't want to admit they mutilated their sons.
I'm gen x and wish I was not cut.
INB4 “but what about female circumsision”
wait female WHAT?
AUUUGH I JUST LOOKED IT UP IM GONNA BE SICK- HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO PEE IF THEY SEW UP THE COOCHIE?!!!
It's fucking barbaric. There are regions where it is considered tradition and the governments have a very hard uphill battle against generations of normalization and traditional culture. It really is just so very awful. I'm a cut male and I hate it. The skin is far too tight feeling when erect, but that is really not anywhere near the female version. I can't imagine how awful it is for women.
There is no what about female circumcision. There is nothing controversial about it. It IS mutilation.
I definitely agree that it’s mutilation. I was pointing out the whataboutism that occurs every time someone talks about male circumsision.