Atheist feminist leftist blogger P.Z. Myers has a post up called “For the boys with boo-boos”. The text is short enough for me to reproduce here in its entirety.
We have a thread on female genital mutilation, and a few boys are insisting on turning it into a discussion of the damage done to their pee-pees by circumcision. For the record, I agree with you: circumcision is mutilation, too, and it shouldn't be done, and doctors shouldn't be collaborating in such a primitive and barbarous practice on children — like piercings and tattoos, it should only be practiced on consenting adults. Except that it's even crazier than a tattoo.
However, FGM is a much more serious problem that causes great pain, destroys most of the capacity for sexual response, and is a tool used to control and oppress women. There is no comparison between FGM and circumcision, and it is annoying to see boys intruding on a thread about a serious political and social issue to insist that everyone look at their little boo-boo.
Yes, I am belittling your loss, because compared to what mutilated women have lost, it's goddamned trivial.
But since some of you are so insistent on demanding that your tallywhackers must be privileged with sympathy, this thread is for you. Go ahead, tell us in all the detail you want how sad you are that your sensitivity has been reduced and that you were tortured for a bit when you were a baby, all true, and I'll even concede right here that it is a genuine problem that ought to be stopped.
Ladies, I suggest that you just ignore this thread. This one is for all the hormonal little guys who need a place to hold hands and cry together.
Get a load of that shaming language. This man, even though he agrees that male circumcision is wrong, is so programmed to grovel at the feet of any female cause and to denigrate males can do no other than couch his agreement in some of the most sickly shaming language I’ve seen.
damage done to their pee-pees
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to insist that everyone look at their little boo-boo.
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tell us in all the detail you want how sad you are that your sensitivity has been reduced
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Ladies, I suggest that you just ignore this thread. This one is for all the hormonal little guys who need a place to hold hands and cry together.
You can’t please the left. On one hand we’re all supposed to find our feminine side and cry more. However, they have complete license to use that against us when we don’t please them.
The only thing he missed was the phrase “act like a man” and it would have been complete.
Now, circumcision is not the most important issue for me. Some have emailed me with a lot of passion about the subject but I find myself unable to really care. Also, FGM (Female Genital Mutilation) is much worse than MGM (Male Genital Mutilation) but this post is not about that. It’s about how the left treats male causes. With contempt.
Any man on the normative modern left really needs to reconsider why they’re there.
Posted on: Friday, May 07, 2010 9:33 AM