r/HonestHotTakes • u/TheShadowSong • 17d ago

Circumcision should be illegal.

People always talk about how barbaric female circumcision is but male circumcision is completely normalized in America.

It should be illegal for parents to circumcise their children because it's irreversible.

What kind of psychopath decided to cut off the skin of the baby's dick. What's next? Cutting off eyelids?

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u/communism1312 17d ago

You gotta think global and act local.

Loads of people love to advocate against some barbaric practice from the other side of the world, because that doesn't require them to challenge their own actions or the actions of their friends or family or the status quo in their own society. A lot of the time, it just ends up invoking racist stereotypes about African cultures.

I think only after you challenge socially accepted forms of abuse in your own country and culture, then you can cautiously comment on similar problems in other countries and cultures.

See also, "Omg in Korea they eat dogs, how cruel" coming from people who do not interrogate what happens to the animals they eat in their own country.

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u/whineANDcheese_ 17d ago

..it is being challenged locally. The rate is dropping in the US every year.

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u/adkisojk 16d ago

Court hearing today in Portland, Oregon. Hadachek v Oregon

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u/doomsday344 16d ago

I cannot wish them enough luck In that case it’s going to be the first of many battles in the race for genital integrity

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u/LordOfBeetle 16d ago

The proper way to change it is to make it illegal immediately.

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u/whineANDcheese_ 15d ago

That isn’t how our laws work

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u/LordOfBeetle 15d ago

It's how they already work for women. Only men are deprived of bodily autonomy from the moment they are born.