If circumcision is so insanely common in the USA, why do people tease about it on the internet?Submitted 10 hours ago by FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world to [deleted]
There are memes like “when you have to prove that you’re jewish” or crass jokes about people standing out due to their lack of foreskin, but i remember hearing that a huge swathes of American men are circumcised - it’s like 49%. Jesus.
If literally half of every men are circumcised, why is it even a remarkable topic to Americans? How did it become such a meme?
I wonder what kind of parent is okay with sexually mutilating their child. That sounds just fucked up.
It’s viewed as either a cultural or religious tradition. Both of these are hard to pull your head away from once you’re raised in that situation, but it is possible. There are likely some cultural or religious practices most of us follow that might be viewed as bad by the masses in a few generations, like eating meat. Or at least lamb/veal.
Here Rabbi, bite the tip of my infants penis off. Crazy isn’t it?
I fear every religion and society that imposes that on children suffers from a very sordid case of “author’s kink”. If you’re born with it and are not suffering from it, there is absolutely no fucking reason in the universe to cut out the foreskin of a boy or the clitoris of a girl. What the absolute fuck, mankind.
It’s only 49‰? Color me surprised.
Color me surprised.
Such a batman-villain-esque line. The riddler, meet the colourer
- Americans are a minority on the internet
Unless you’re american?
That’s true but it just seems to me that they lead the way in those kinds of memes.
Genital mutiliation shouldn’t be normalized
It might be hard to wrap your head around it, but there are people on the internet who are not from the US.
Bullshit.
Next you’re gonna tell me there are actually girls here, too.k
No, not here specifically
The girls are on tik tok comparing themselves to other girls
I feel like I you answered your own question.
If roughly half of all American men are circumcised, then that means that there is a predictable binary status men can hold in that regard. People will focus on a dichotomy simply because it exists.
In my experience, the strongest critics of MGM are victims of circumcision. There are some brainwashed people too who don’t see what the big deal is, but people with normal penises (and women) don’t seem to care much one way or the other.
I was circumcised and my penis seems to work just fine. I do have to say that I couldn’t care much less about the topic.
Yes, ironic that I clicked this thread at all, but I’m bored.
ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.com 8 hours ago
I got pushback when I told my ex and docs no to chopping my kid despite having been so myself.
‘But it’s cleaner and easier to manage…’
Don’t care, unless you can give a medical need reason he can make that choice as an adult if he wants.
Mycatiskai@lemmy.ca 2 hours ago
When you teach a kid how to clean themselves in the bath you teach them how to clean each body part with no shame. How hard is that to manage.
PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Both complete lies btw
forkDestroyer@infosec.pub 2 hours ago
It’s definitely easier to manage the sccccccchhhhmegma without the ol smegma catcher being present, but I didn’t get my son circ’d because running in gym shorts when you’re fat, with a little acorn pointing straight forward, can lead to sphincter chaffing … and I’m not very fond of that feeling. I didn’t want to pass it down to him.
I hope he goes on to become a fast runner without the threat of penile chaffing. Good luck, my son, should you ever read this after I’m doxd
Karjalan@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
The one “truth” is that it “reduces the risk of cancer”… Because technically chopping anything off reduces the risk of cancer, because that thing can no longer get it.
However foreskin cancer is not exactly a high cause for concern, and by this logic cutting off your ears and nose would be more logical.