Just Another Surgical Procedure
Circumcision. It sounds so much more acceptable to call it that rather than genital mutilation. Actually, I don't have a major problem with it. If a bloke wants to cut off part of his penis, well that's up to him. I might think he's as bat shit crazy to do that as the guy who drilled a hole in his own head, but hey, people do weird stuff to their bodies. You could say that it's part of what makes us human.
What I'm not at all ambivalent about is people doing it to other people without their consent - just strap 'em down and slice it off. Try doing that to an adult and you risk serious punishment through the legal system, but how about if the victim was not yet an adult - say 14? Nope. Not okay. Some would probably consider it worse. You'll be off to jail for sure. So at what age is it acceptable to just strap 'em down and slice it off? Seven? Nope. Two? Nope. You can see where this is going, can't you.
I don't think it's really an age thing. The main criteria for acceptability seems to be that the victim must not have verbally expressed dissent. The fact that babies can't talk is probably just a coincidence, right?
Here's a documentary about it in all its 'glory'. I'll warn you in advance that there are scenes which I had to turn away from, but that's part of the reason it should be watched.
Among the comments on the YouTube page is this one from SuperMare54: "So get the baby drunk..... then cut off part of his penis..... and then laugh and celebrate. What is wrong with this picture???"
I noticed another part where the guy in the suit, sitting in the swivel chair, was wriggling and squirming as he talked, and had that 'almost laughing' expression crawling all over his face for a large part of the time. I think that's what people do when they know that they are wrong, but don't want to admit it.
To my mind, if circumcision is 'just another surgical procedure' then rape is merely 'unwanted attention'.
The unabridged version of Cut can be bought on DVD at: www.CutTheFilm.com
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