Possibly the strangest color bar I have ever seen...

[uberreiniger]

Yes, they are much more love than non-intact baby boys. Especially if you have taken the obvious solution and rebuilt them as killer cyborgs. Those are decidely not love. 

Oh wait! I get it! It's some kind of statement about circumcision. Gotcha. Still kinda dumb, though.

Comments

[solandra.livejournal.com]

While I disagree with circumcision, all baby boys are love, damnit. :P All parents do what they do out of love and what they think is best for their children.

[thesandsabrase.livejournal.com]

when did circumcision become an issue?

[kakita-shisumo.livejournal.com]

Killer cyborgs can be love. Didn't you see Terminator 2?

[uberreiniger.livejournal.com]

Yes, but then somebody would one-up it with a colorbar of Terminatrix from T3 that says "Killer cyborgs are sex." We don't need an escalation of libidinous cyborgs. You playing one in the DB game is enough!

[uberreiniger.livejournal.com]

When more and more people started raising their children as complete dicks. *ba-dum-bum-CHING!*

[fallingtearpoet.livejournal.com]

Remind me to show you Thousandfold Courtesan Calculations in Exalted: the Autochthonians sometime...

[thesandsabrase.livejournal.com]

So that's what happened, previously I thought it was just because of the internet.

[ghaidin.livejournal.com]

oh, didn't have a clue about non-circumci... etc = intact

kids are love, but killer-ciborg-kids are DA BEST! They can love you to pieces, literally.

[solandra.livejournal.com]

Nah, circumcision is mostly done in the US. And maybe part of it is because more and more people from the US were seeing that most of the world doesn't do it, that it's only needed in rare cases or done for religious reasons otherwise in other countries. Originally, they started doing it here to prevent masturbation (doesn't work for that), then in WWII to prevent STI's (US still has the highest number of STI's out of any industrialized country, so, doesn't work, condoms do) and now more and more people are just coming to see it as pointless genital mutilation, a way for doctors to make an extra couple of bucks.

[thesandsabrase.livejournal.com]

I actually always thought it was really about Protestant Christian inherance of Jewish cultural norms. The other theories seem like the lame post facto justifications.

[solandra.livejournal.com]

Well, it's not exactly post facto justifications or conspiracy theories. You can find old medical reasoning and religious reasoning from the 19th-20th centuries about it, if you were really interested. It wasn't widely done in the US till then.

[thesandsabrase.livejournal.com]

Fair enough, although the Protestant revival of looking at things from an OT perspective comes from about the same time. It's quite interesting and odd how those things sort of happen around the same time.

[solandra.livejournal.com]

AHhhh, how I love the OT! FIRE! BRIMSTONE! HELLFIRE! BURN! GENOCIDE!!

[thesandsabrase.livejournal.com]

Genocide, my favorite part too.

[uberreiniger.livejournal.com]

And so many folks who so richly deserved it too.

[stitchedsutures.livejournal.com]

This comment is the winner :P

[blkhmster.livejournal.com]

yeah that's a dumb bar *L*...we didn't get my little boy circumcised. my husband was adamantly against it. i figured he has a penis, i don't, so he should know, ha ha. we had no religious reason to do it and anything else i read for it didn't convince me to have it done. oh well. doesn't matter to anyone but him and the person he ends up with later in life. but yeah, whatever :)

[zaimoni.livejournal.com]

A priori, I'd think male circumcision facilitates masturbation, if anything...by removing the possibility of the one medical emergency masturbation can elicit. [That is treatable only by male circumcision.]

"Not needed" does not prohibit dramatically reducing a number of risks (some very hyperaggressive cancers resistant to chemotherapy, for instance) that are very untreatable even with high technology.

A decent medical case for male circumcision can be made simply by reading up on urology. If you think the baby has a life expectancy of more than 40 years.