This is the point where I really need to say 'WTF, over?'

[ursa_mater]

(warning, sexual abuse trigger, child abuse trigger))

I posted this on my facebook yesterday because I felt it important and I needed to get the message out. Important enough, and bad/sickening/horrifying enough that I'm posting it here as well

Comments

[dubonnetcherry]

ohhhh jesus christ i read that on jez.

[alabastard]

Something even worse happened to me, over 40 years ago, and back then there was no one who'd speak up for the child, though my father tried. Took her dying apology for me to forgive my mother.

[mistressnaoko]

WTF. WTF. There are no words to describe this, really.

And I thought male circumcision was bad. This... this...

[darkenna]

Out of curiosity, why do you think that male circumcision is bad?

[mephron]

As a man, I'd like to just say I'd have liked a choice - or a medical reason - for the alteration. I mean, they had to ask permission to rip an organ out of me, and it would have been nice to be old enough to answer affirmatively or negatively about my wang getting altered.

(the organ in question was the gall bladder, and I had severe gallstones that cused me much pain, but still. they needed my permission.)

[darkenna]

Well, there initially was a very valid medical reason for the circumcision tradition (like most Hebrew traditions & Kosher laws, like not mixing fabrics or eating pork). I, personally, feel that just because we now know a ton about what causes things like bacterial infections (or allergic reactions or trichinosis), it doesn't invalidate the traditions created by them. I may not follow said traditions, but I do understand them

[snicks_chan]

And then there's this. I truly do feel that there are some cultural practices which we can look at and say "No. No, that is not okay under any circumstances." regardless of which culture we personally belong to. Some things are just that horrific. Like, oh, sati. Because these aren't traditions. They're methods of control.

(ditto the Jez comment above)