Christopher Hitchens on Genital Mutilation
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Let's cut off the eyelids of kids while we're at it... sickening.
1 year ago 4
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@Largo64 You'll find plenty of doctors arguing why female genital mutilation is good in Africa, the middle east, and Indonesia.
The only places where you'll find many doctors arguing for male circumcision is in the countries where it's practiced like America, Israel, and most of the Muslim world.
There is no reason for either mutilation. It's time to stop being "culturally sensitive" about this and call it what it is: a twisted blood ritual.
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Arranged marriages aren't just in England. A few years back, I met a cute girl of Middle Eastern descent working in a clothing store. I was chatting her up, and a fellow customer (an old busybody) suggested the two of us date. The girl's response was to flash a ring and say "Oh, I'm in an arranged marriage." This is in New York fucking City, in 2000! This is a girl, living in what's supposed to be one of the most progressive cities in world history, whose life is stuck back in the 11th century!
3 years ago 3
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maybe he was trying to make a pun : P
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Forgive me, but the word is genital. Gentile refers to non-Jews.
I understand Hitchins' calling female circumcision mutilation. There is no reason for it at all in the 21st century. I'm afraid you will still get an argument from some physicians about male circumcision, which is performed on Non-Jewish boys at birth in many hospitals as a standard practice unless the parents object. And good luck outlawing a Jewish religious practice older than any court in the world.
3 years ago 3
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umm I think you mean 'genital' not 'gentile'
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I was never circumcized, and I've never gotten a dick infection or any of the supposed associated problems. In fact, my glans is far more sensitive than the glans of a circumcized penis... and good for me! Why shouldn't my dick be sensitive? What is it, a crowbar? It's SUPPOSED to be sensitive! It's a sex organ!
Plus, I can keep $50 and a spare set of keys under the foreskin for emergencies!
johnclavis 3 years ago 21
Though I'm not Jewish, I was circumcised as an infant. My father told me I objected loudly to the "operation" at the time, but I don't remember it, and I don't seem to have suffered as a result of it. Dr. Edell says it has nothing to do with hygiene, but that is the stated reason for it in hospitals today. I sympathize with Edell's and Hitchens' views, but since it is a thousands of years old religious practice I doubt it will be outlawed anytime soon. Maybe when religion dies. We can all hope.
Largo64 3 years ago 11