Anonymous
Post 08/02/2013 11:17     Subject: Pierced ears in little girls is def trailer park trash...
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:OP is racist classist trash. Too bad for her kids.


I'm the OP and I was being sarcastic. Since when GB is trashy?????

You don't see anything wrong with the language you used in your post OP? This is all hilarious to you?


I was using the language we see here often when this subject is discussed. It was supposed to be a satire. I think the majority got it, right?
Anonymous
Post 08/02/2013 11:15     Subject: Pierced ears in little girls is def trailer park trash...
Anonymous wrote:I'm a WASP and I tend to think of it as something that the lower classes do. Pretty sure others in my circle feel the same way, as I only know one family who pierced their baby's ears. (both parents are doctors, so it surprised us a lot!)

I actually didn't know that some cultures do it routinely until DCUM informed me. I would never say anything in public, but I admit, I do still think of it as a lower-class thing to do.


So GB is low class?
Anonymous
Post 08/02/2013 10:18     Subject: Pierced ears in little girls is def trailer park trash...
Anonymous wrote:Honest question - Is it not okay to find other cultural practices bad/trashy/wrong simply becuase it is something common to that culture?

I jsut think the answer "it's cultural!" is odd. Or is there just a level of acceptance that we have for activities we find non-damaging?

I mean surely no one would say "child marriage is fine, its cultural! because we can be clear there is an injured party there. But still it is cultural. . .


I think you are totally right. There are lots of things that are culturally sanctioned, yet appear damaging nonetheless when you look at them without the cultural bias. I happen to think that circumcision is an example of that, and ear piercing is another (less significant) one. Other examples include burkas, female genital mutilation, polygamy... and countless others.
Anonymous
Post 08/02/2013 10:17     Subject: Pierced ears in little girls is def trailer park trash...
Anonymous wrote:I'm a WASP and I tend to think of it as something that the lower classes do. Pretty sure others in my circle feel the same way, as I only know one family who pierced their baby's ears. (both parents are doctors, so it surprised us a lot!)

I actually didn't know that some cultures do it routinely until DCUM informed me. I would never say anything in public, but I admit, I do still think of it as a lower-class thing to do.


how is the air up there on your horse, your Majesty?
Anonymous
Post 08/02/2013 10:05     Subject: Pierced ears in little girls is def trailer park trash...
Honest question - Is it not okay to find other cultural practices bad/trashy/wrong simply becuase it is something common to that culture?

I jsut think the answer "it's cultural!" is odd. Or is there just a level of acceptance that we have for activities we find non-damaging?

I mean surely no one would say "child marriage is fine, its cultural! because we can be clear there is an injured party there. But still it is cultural. . .
Anonymous
Post 08/02/2013 10:02     Subject: Pierced ears in little girls is def trailer park trash...
I'm a WASP and I tend to think of it as something that the lower classes do. Pretty sure others in my circle feel the same way, as I only know one family who pierced their baby's ears. (both parents are doctors, so it surprised us a lot!)

I actually didn't know that some cultures do it routinely until DCUM informed me. I would never say anything in public, but I admit, I do still think of it as a lower-class thing to do.
Anonymous
Post 08/02/2013 09:55     Subject: Pierced ears in little girls is def trailer park trash...
Since when is Gisele Bündchen a paragon of high class?
Anonymous
Post 08/02/2013 09:53     Subject: Pierced ears in little girls is def trailer park trash...
Anonymous wrote:huh when did the anti-circ freaks jump on this thread.


When someone brought up circumcision to justify ear piercing.
Anonymous
Post 08/02/2013 09:14     Subject: Pierced ears in little girls is def trailer park trash...
huh when did the anti-circ freaks jump on this thread.
Anonymous
Post 08/02/2013 09:12     Subject: Re:Pierced ears in little girls is def trailer park trash...
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote: I don't get why a parent would want to cause their child pain at such a tender age. It might not hurt for long but the baby certainly never asked for it.


Did they ask for foreskin mutilation?

It's cultural and there's no harm. Come on.



But why hurt a child when it's not necessary?


oh for God's sake

Anonymous
Post 08/02/2013 09:03     Subject: Pierced ears in little girls is def trailer park trash...
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:OP is racist classist trash. Too bad for her kids.


I'm the OP and I was being sarcastic. Since when GB is trashy?????

You don't see anything wrong with the language you used in your post OP? This is all hilarious to you?
Anonymous
Post 08/02/2013 09:02     Subject: Pierced ears in little girls is def trailer park trash...
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:In Western Europe where I come from, most do not do this (and people like my mother think it is trashy). But in many other parts of the world, it is culturally important. So since it is not on par with female genital mutilation, and only causes momentary pain rather like a blood draw (which my children had to have very young), I have no objection to it.


Don't most Spanish girls have their ears pierced as infants?

Yes but Southern Europe vs Northern Europe vs Eastern Europe you have very different traditions.
Anonymous
Post 08/02/2013 08:25     Subject: Pierced ears in little girls is def trailer park trash...
Anonymous wrote:In Western Europe where I come from, most do not do this (and people like my mother think it is trashy). But in many other parts of the world, it is culturally important. So since it is not on par with female genital mutilation, and only causes momentary pain rather like a blood draw (which my children had to have very young), I have no objection to it.


Don't most Spanish girls have their ears pierced as infants?
Anonymous
Post 08/02/2013 08:25     Subject: Pierced ears in little girls is def trailer park trash...
People are so classless and mean. It is cultural. If your culture doesn't do it, great - don't do it. Mine doesn't. But to disparage little babies/their parents over this is very classless.
Anonymous
Post 08/02/2013 08:20     Subject: Re:Pierced ears in little girls is def trailer park trash...
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote: I don't get why a parent would want to cause their child pain at such a tender age. It might not hurt for long but the baby certainly never asked for it.


If you have a son, did you also not circumcise the child to to causing pain? It's a culture thing, get over it. My mother pierced my ears at weeks of age as well. I never regretted having pierced ears.


I have two sons, and no, I didn't have them circumcised. Piercing ears isn't nearly as bad though, but I still think it's an odd desire to have. And "it's a culture thing" isn't a very good justification for either.

Both, however, are completely different from vaccines, which are medically justified and recommended.