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from all of the research I've done into the matter, it's a huge amount of work/effort for not much of a payoff. there are a lot of options/paths to go down, and - admittedly - it's been almost a 15 years since I really looked into it, so there may have been some worthwhile advances since then, but, given the state of things at the time, I doubt it.
but I don't mean to discourage you, and what I might have deemed "worth it" or not, you might feel differently. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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I love how the jet is uncircumcised. Must be an Israeli jet
And, unfortunately, for decades, particularly in the United States, parents were misled with medical misinformation that told them it was medically necessary (or “recommended”) to circumcise their babies. Thankfully, that is no longer the case. Unfortunately, it is still culturally reinforced, although that is fortunately fading.
But it will likely be several more decades before that misinformation and cultural force finally fades completely.
I certainly hope that the Wayback machine is setting up a number of independent proxies.
These “independent journalist agencies” or whatever forget that once you put something on the Internet, it’s there forever. Getting something off of the Internet is like trying to get pee out of a pool. Or, more like trying to get pee out of the ocean.
They have had, literally, decades to whine and cry about whatever copyright bullshit claims they have. And they have. They have been repeatedly adjudicated in national and international courts all over the globe, and they have repeatedly been repudiated. Now, they simply don’t want to be held accountable for the horrible things they publish, because they want to be able to take down and edit articles they publish which are no longer truthful. Far beyond their claims of copyright infringement.
And there are no legalistic frameworks to sue against archiving those sorts of publishing malfeasance.
Sadly, for them, once you put it online, it can be archived by anyone, and the Internet archive and the way back machine simply need to make very simple adjustments to their archival methods to continue what they do.
hehe, no, I missed that the "ape"post was a few months ago. because a few moths ago felt like a decade ago, lol
ops image proves the claim of the title.
so, where are yours?
I am sick and tired of seeing all circumcision lumped together as mutilation
it's the definition of the word. sure, it carries a lot of negative connotations that may not have affected you the same way, and you may have, personally, appreciated your circumcision, but that doesn't invalidate the feelings of others. this isn't some zero-sum situation where other people being upset about it somehow invalidated your experience.
Many people can feel different ways about things. That's called society. A key part of civilization is our ability to all live together with many different people feeling different ways about things. In fact, a huge advance in civilization - no shit - is that, several thousand years ago, we stop killing each other over this very issue. REALLY.
In a much more contemporary context, it's just not necessary. Most recently, as recently as the late 1970s and early 1980s, a now-debunked study pushed the idea that it was, at least "more hygienic" to circumcise males, but that was based on shaky and now-debunked studies. In modern medicine, circumcision is no longer recommended at birth except in rare cases of medical necessity of urinary or other birth defects. Exceptions also exist in some religions, Judaism most prominently, not for medical necessity, but as an alignment with a belief based on ancient mythology, not unlike the genital mutilations some women undergo in Islam — also widely/globally denounced.
we all have our own feelings about it. I'm not trying to say that the way you feel about your own circumcision is right or wrong, or how any man who decides - on their own, as an informed adult - is right or wrong to do so.
but I would vehemently argue that it is an adult man's decision to make, not a parent's decision to make for their infant son-- unless some medical condition makes it necessary to do so at that time (which are quite rare). and, yes, I understand that there are religious considerations, but, as an atheist, I'm not so sympathetic to that, either, as I classify all genital mutilation in the same category, regardless of age or gender: it is a decision to be made by the subject of the procedure, and only when they are a consenting, informed adult.
What? Some guy you could’ve easily just made up to try to make a point in some anonymous Internet forum?
That’s the point of verified scientific studies from trusted scientific institutions. I don’t have to take your word for it. I can take their word for it. And you still haven’t provided any actual evidence to back up any of your claims.
OK kid come back when you have some actual evidence to back up your claims, lol
Your anecdotal claims amount to a pile of nothing but personal preference in Internet story time. And while you are perfectly welcome to your personal opinions, you are not entitled to spread claims of “truth“ without backing it up with actual evidence from trusted sources.
Go ask around the medical community and you’ll discover quite a few didn’t handle it well. Kids don’t do a good job of washing.
I have, and this isn't true. it's also not supported by the medical documentation available. Instructing kids, especially when you start from an early age, to develop proper hygiene habits is pretty easy. I've even borne witness to it many times personally, although I'm not necessarily offering my personal experience as proof.
It’s highly relevant
not when you're making claims about everyone everywhere. what matters there is evidence to back up your claims, which you have yet to provide.
so, since you were the one who initially made such claims... please back them up from reliable sources such as the AMA, for example.
well, under normal circumstances... but wtf is even happening there anymore?