circumcision - human rights issue?

[melon]

(What the hell's the point of writing anything in this thread? Clearly, there isn't one, so rather than have my posts contorted as a "personal attack," I've thus removed it.)

Melon

[pax]

Melon, that's enough.

We've all read your arguments, and the fact that we simply do not agree does not mean that you are talking to a brick wall. I do not believe I have the sort of myopia to which you here refer, and I'm not sure the people who also disagree with you here do either. If I've said it once, I've said it a thousand times: DO NOT resort to personal attacks in FYM. Period.

This thread is over, I suspect, but I'll leave it open on the off chance that we can return to a civilized discussion about the merits, or lack thereof, of male circumcision.

[adam's_mistress]

My son is circumcized, as I am Jewish and have planned to raise my son in the faith, even though somewhat loosely. My husband is not Jewish, and he is circumcized as well (because back then circumcision was pushed in hospitals on the grounds that it promotes cleanliness in the area + his father was, and his father before him, and so on and so forth) I am sorry, but I get the feeling here that I must be some evil woman for "injuring" or disfiguring my son with this outdated tradition.

I can understand why people feel circumcision is not a necessary option and there are many doctors (like my stand-in doctor at the hospital after my son was born) who flat out refuse to do the procedure no matter what the reasons are - spiritual or otherwise.

Still though, to be accused of mutilating my son for outdated, selfish faith based reasons doesn't sit well with me. And I'm with pax when she says that female circumcision and male circumcision are false comparisons... she summed up my feeilngs so there's no need to get any wordier than I already have.

[melon]

(Nevermind...it's not worth it.)

Melon

[pax]

Originally posted by melon
Funny...sometimes I feel like I'm just talking to a brick wall, but I guess I'd like to hope that people can, at least, understand where everything comes from, but I guess I cannot change human tendencies to look at everything "foreign" suspiciously, but look at "domestic" idiosyncrasies as "normal."

[pax]

You edited too late.

But your compliments have been duly noted!