Michael Chabonn on Circumcision and the Wilderness of Childhood

Listen to the whole interview:
http://www.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/episodes/2009/10/08/segments/142204
Michael Chabon talks about what it means to be a man today. His collection of essays, "Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son," is Chabons first long work of personal writing, and in it he offers reflections, regrets and reexaminations of his life.

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[lyutsin21]

@lyutsin21 The head of my penis is NUMB. enough said. You must really be putting me on...I thought you were ethnically Jewish...you are the voice of the virus of misinformation and illogic that causes bad stuff like penile mutilation.

[lyutsin21]

@sjbeacher I used to be glad I was circumcised, but I didn't think about the actual procedure and I thought the way I am now was the way all guys are and the way all guys are born...hairy shaft, dark blotches, uneven color and all...then I realized the head of my penis is numb, I looked up information and realized the harassment and abuse that was done to me...you must be sh---ing me.

[Nifrayu]

@sjbeacher " My parents traumatize me by not having me circumcised" How? That makes no sense.

(My perents did not mutilate me. They are horrible people.) Get real.

[IbnNero]

@sjbeacher foreskin is foreplay which reduce the penetration mania in our society.it creates happier people and less frightened females of cut barbaric men who cant relief without rape

[stkcarm5]

for those who want to reverse their circumcision check out foregen.org

[lyutsin21]

@sjbeacher You are just mechanically spewing out the same brainwashing techniques you were fed; you're acting like you are threatened that you will have to be wrong, in which case our parents and/or the virus of judaism really did sexually harass us and traumatize, violate, and seriously abuse us.

[lyutsin21]

@sjbeacher I did not read bullshit; I realized my penis is numb BEFORE I searched for evidence of why and whether anyone else is like me. THEN I figured out what circumcision really is. We were not born defective, needing to get 1/2 -80% of our penile skin cut off in order to be perfect men! Answer what I asked before: do you think every male has to be mutilated or only Jewish boys?

[lyutsin21]

@sjbeacher Please wake up to the reality of the sever abuse you are doing to your sons. I'm most definitely ethnically Jewish (now an atheist), but only because my parents are, NOT because the most sensitive part of my body was cut off in a gross, bloody, fucked up deranged Jewish penile mutilation ceremony. I hate my parents & the virus of judaism for this! Do NOT hurt your son!

[lyutsin21]

@sjbeacher I spelled it according to YIVO romanization rules. The vodka must have killed some of your brain cells, I don't drink, I'm very confident that circumcision is sever child abuse and should be illegal- you are like a colorblind person who thinks his vision/penis is fine and wants all other Jewish guys to be colorblind/ sexually damaged. Do you think every male should be mutilated or just ethnically jewish boys?

[lyutsin21]

@sjbeacher I patiently observe that you are spewing the most false lies I have ever heard. I hate the fact that my parents paid to have someone cut off the most sensitive part of my body in a gross, traumatic, bloody, painful ritual that will diminish my ability to have sex forever. Read all the evidence, stroke your nails against your palms/ soles of feet, and penis head, become aware of the damage Judaism did to you, don't let this happen you your son(s)!