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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know that this is not exactly what you are getting at, butI am extremely bothered by all the negativity.  It is intrusive and disrespectful while masquerading as a free-to-be-you-and-me mentality.

1. The people who say we are mutilating our children's genitals and use the term "intact" bother me immensely.  My child is not incomplete in some way because he is circumcised.  [b]your kid is not circumcised, he is not "intact".[/b]

2. The people who say that we should leave the child to grow up and make his own decision.  This makes no sense to me.  What other decisions should we leave to our child?  Is he allowed to hit his friends?  Can he just stay awake all night watching movies?  Decide what he wants to eat even if it is a 100% sugar diet?  No!  We are the parents.  We decide things for our children all the time and yes a lot of them are permanent and last throughout their lives.  We get to raise our children how we choose.  that means we can discipline, form family traditions, celebrate holidays and circumcise our sons.

I have to ask those people who say we should let our children grow up and decide what religion to be if they force Christmas presents on their children before they are 18?

3. I did not dwell on the health benefits or the risks.  We are Jewish and we had a bris and circumcised our son.  I fully support parents making decisions for their children.  And I expect everyone else to butt out. [/quote]

Sorry, dictionary wanna be, but you don't get to police the language. My kid is intact. your kid is, by definition, not intact. You may use a euphemism if you like, but you can't force me to do the same so you feel better about what you did. And yes, I stand behind my belief that no parent should be forcing elective surgery on a newborn for cosmetic reasons or because their "god" tells them to. How ridiculous. [/quote]

Here's the problem I have with the term "intact".  It's not nice.  Just say, your child is not circumcised.  That's fine.  The term intact is loaded with the implication of superiority.  Are you teaching your child that circumcised children are incomplete?  How will that play out in the school yard?  Not well I imagine.  What's funny is that circumcised children don't walk around talking about being circumcised.  It's the people who didn't have their children circumcised that seem hell bent on finding out the situation in everyone's pants. [/quote]

Sigh.  Circumcised children ARE incomplete, or rather their penis is.  I am very glad that my son has his whole penis.  To be circumcised is to not have your whole penis.  This is just basic anatomy.[/quote]

I sure hope you don't have any piercings.  [/quote]

Are you seriously comparing a pierced ear to the removal of a baby boy's foreskin?  This kind of idiotic comment shows that you have no idea what the foreskin is and why it is important.  This is exactly why it should be illegal to mutilate your child in this way.  You haven't got a clue.  How about you compare it to cutting off the tip of his finger or his nose or even part of his tongue.

Personally iv'e never used the word "intact" although it is a very clear description of my son's penis.  I prefer "normal".  I guess I could use "unmutilated" if I needed to distinguish it from some idiot who authorized a doctor to attack her child's genitalia for financial gain.[/quote]

You are "incomplete" if you have piercings.[/quote]

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