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and a bad day for anti-circumcision fanatics who care more about their own foreskin insecurities.
It's obvious why a small but very active group of anti-circ zealots spend so many hours on the internet peddling misleading or false information about a tiny piece of skin. They don't give a damn about significantly reducing HIV rates in Africa. What they care most about is this: As long a significant portion of people are circumcised, those who still have foreskins will be (unfairly) stigmatized as dirty and unhealthy. The bitterness and hurt a small minority of these men (and some of their wives and mothers) feel is obvious. Behind the happily married 60-year-old grandfather who spends hours a day on the internet as part of the anti-circ echo chamber, is the 18-year-old boy (from long ago) who was afraid of being rejected by a girl for having a foreskin. Just let it go already.
