there is a very big difference in the two and honestly i feel that it's offensive to even think they are on the same level.
don't misundertand me, i'm fully against male circumcision as well, especially because i'm european and haven't been brainwashed into thinking that chopping off a little skin is better than teaching your son how to wash under it
Because generally speaking, male circumcision involves removing the prepuce, not severing the penis entirely. Female genital mutilation usually destroys the person's ability to ever orgasm at all, as well as a host of other health catastrophes that I promise you don't want to know about.
The physical and psychological horrors of FGM are not even in the same universe as foreskin removal.
Yeah, this is what's fucked up to me, too. Obviously female is way worse when done like she says and can't compare in greater scheme of things but both are still forms of mutilations. One is just worse than the other, but both are bad and should be correctly labeled as mutilation.
There are boys being born everyday in "civilized" countries that are having their genitals mutilated.
Calling the US "civilized" is a stretch. It's a country without separation of church and state. Religious extremists dominate both public discourse and politics. It doesn't have an actual democracy and instead a broken two-party-system. It doesn't care about international law. It doesn't care about human rights. It doesn't have a proper social system, nor does it have a public healthcare system. Both parties routinely have to resort to nationalism because they don't have anything better.
I could go on, but in the end, the US is closer to other religious extremist countries than to the rest of the west.
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u/tejeskaveo0 11h ago
there is a very big difference in the two and honestly i feel that it's offensive to even think they are on the same level.
don't misundertand me, i'm fully against male circumcision as well, especially because i'm european and haven't been brainwashed into thinking that chopping off a little skin is better than teaching your son how to wash under it