Bengt Washburn on Circumcision

Comedian Bengt Washburn talks about circumcision as heard on his CD HellBengt: earthquake in a coffee shop which is available for purchase at www.getbengt.com

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Comedy

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• Stand-up

[alnot01]

Excellent stand-up number. On the Jewish origins of snipping babies, read Leonard Glick's "Marked in Your Flesh." We'll never know how it started. It is suspected that in Biblical times, only the overhang was cut off. Cutting it all off began centuries later, to make it impossible for a Jew to pretend he wasn't one. Bris persisted because it made intermarriage between Jews and Christians nearly impossible, until English speakers took up the practice 100 odd years ago.

[SilencioG]

@alnot01 thanks for the interesting research.

[ryanmczero]

Yeah, it's funny and well-performed, but it allows bias to remain. The "fix it later" part should precede the "worst hazing ritual" joke, just to make it clear to us Americans that he, a comedian, and one of our own, thinks that circumcision is a really bad idea.

[SilencioG]

But it works in the order I have it. I really don't think that male circumcision is that awful. I am not a champion of social change. Yes, I question the answers put forth by religion but I will gladly make fun of any answers put forward by anybody, religious or secular, if those answers strike me as ridiculous.

[compassionateman]

This is a funny take, though of course it does indirectly make a deeper point -- God really would not have made an error in the design of the human body so serious as to require immediate amputation -- think about it...

[Pastor9764]

@AbsentAnyProof You're being too kind on Americans. It doesn't take a grand conspiracy to make them do awkward stuff like mutilating their babies. Just some guy who claims that masturbation is the worst thing ever and that circumcision cures it was plenty enough to get Americans to mutilate their sons. No conspiracy involved, or necessary. Just plain old fear of sex and stupidity did the job.

[jenniferlindsayreed]

The foreskin in not a birth defect. It is has purpose and function. It has immunological beneftis (so it is not dirty), protective benefits and sexual benefits. Google "functions of the foreskin"; it's amazing. American's stop being so blind, open your eyes to the sexually oppressing genital mutilation of infant boys and stop questioning their manhood. Circumcision is the removal of erogenous, sensory, genital tissue. Visit doctorsopposingcircumcision (dot org) for the most accurate information.

[alnot01]

@7777Hugh : My use of any form of the verb to snip is wholly sarcastic.

[7777Hugh]

@alnot01 Don't call it "snipping" until you've seen it done. With a Gomco clamp, or the traditional izmel and barzel, it's sliced (and with the Mogen clamp, the glans might be sliced too, which is why the Mogen company went bankrupt, sued by families to the tune of millions). With the Plastibell and all the new Asian clamps, it's crushed and allowed to die and fall off. And with the laughingly named "Accu-circ", a blind instrument, it's chopped. But never snipped.

[ToolFan68]

@UntilWeFindtheCure ...dude are you feeling alright? I think you might need to get back on your meds.

[jnawaz]

"pig in a blanket"...lmfao!!! thats good...he's good!!!

[UntilWeFindtheCure]

in the 1978 movie 'Superman' when the alien infant emerges from his space capsule he displays a circumcised penis. The jews never bypass an opportunity to brainwash the gullible masses into replicating their age-old covenant with Lucifer.

[JonathonWilder]

@kingkool875 @kingkool875 Yet people do it everyday through drugs, heavy drinking, tattoos, and having a ton of piercings (I'm not talking 1 or 2. I'm talking about 5 to 10 to even more). :)

[JonathonWilder]

@kingkool875 Yet people do everyday through drugs, heavy drinking, tattoos, and having a ton of piercings (I'm not talking 1 or 2. I'm talking about 5 to 10 to even more). :)