Letters to the Editor

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When our son was born, my wife decided circumcision was barbaric, but my parents insisted it was an essential Jewish tradition. Behold the sad tale of how one foreskin tore a family apart.
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  • sectarian arguments

    So let me inform you that regardless of how proud they are of the heritage, they are not really observant jews, in this case. - Anonymous

    That of course being your opinion and definition of observant.

    Unless you're a fundamental literalist (how are your slaves?) you must reasonably admit, if possible, that while various sects may squabble over what the correct interpretation is, the common rule among sects is to have a selective interpretation of the definition of observant.

    I myself am considering it -- for religious reasons only. Religion is irrational.

    Well you certainly seem to be. I guess your penis is presently impeding your faith? You faithless dickhead! btw, to really prove your faith you may want to consider testicular removal as well.

    ;^)

  • kibbitzing

    Anyway, "healthy skeptic", I don't really care about this issue one way or the other. - kstone

    Then why are you here? Maybe you could find something to care about and do it... Is that too obvious?

    I was just pointing out your rather selective use of information.

    Really? where?

    It's clear which side you favor so spare the rationalist "skeptical" posing.

    My posts have been factual though you're of course free to disagree, and when you contribute something, we can consider that.

    In the meanwhile, you're just kibitzing in a conversation you claim to dislike, and yet keep returning to add nothing.

    How stupid is that?

    It couldn't get any more stupid unless you returned anonymously to to kibitz further, which I'm guessing comes next.

  • Re:"kibbitzing"

    So what?

    Everbody here is kibbitzing. That you think you're factually contributing to some sort of substantive or informed discussion is simply your pretense rearing it's head again.

    Also, I don't dislike this conversation. I'm enjoying it immensely. It's downright hilarious.

  • You all are morons just like Osama

    osama said he did 9-11 for Allah

    you circumsize for Jehovah

    a curse on all your families - opps wait a curse is as stupid as you ARE!

  • more you say?

    Excellent writing. Can we see more from this man, please? -- Magpie Malone

    Sorry, due to an editing error, that won't be possible.

  • BLUH BLUH BLLUH. .. .

    Brightstar, why the fuck are you yammering about how this is the fault of women? It was Pollack's wife who DIDN'T want the surgery! (My subject line also covers Pollack's poisonous and pointless little jape about women's studies, by the way.) You might want to actually see about losing your virginity to a woman before continuing your constant mindless generalizations about us.

    lemme fix you. You imply that because ONE woman thinks circ is bad and ONE man thinks it is good, ALL women think circ is bad and all men think circ is good.

    You keep believing that 'logic'

    The sad truth is I have read dozens of responses written by women who claim they cannot fuck a guy who is natural.

    I have read dozens of responses by men who, because they lost their right to decide by being snipped before they could decide, take the high road and declare that it did not mean much to them anyway.

    Neither of these groups is correct.

    The women are wrong because they are man hating bigots.

    The men are wrong because they are pushover pusses who disrespect their bodies and disrespect the natural rights of the men around them.

    What is broken in you I cannot explain.

  • Mutilation?

    Why this insistence on calling it "mutilation". Because most American men are circumcised it's the uncut ones that look "weird". Believe me many an uncut guy has heard in the shower "dude whats wrong with your dick? that thing is weird lookin'". Cut is the norm in this society. I'd love to see a poll of American women asking which they prefer. I'd guess cut would be around 90%. b

  • Whatever ...

    ... makes you feel better, Brightstar.

  • EVEN IF IT's TRUE

    Brightstar bitches about how EVERYTHING is the fault of women! Just ignore him and he'll go away.

    Everything IS the fault of women since women insert themselves into every issue and control men's responses to issues by limiting men's access to sex, love, and affection.

    The only guys who are immune are gay.

    If you're so clever and correct, I challenge you to explain to me how it is that Bush's wife is not thrilled with the way he is running (destroying) the world.

  • "Shrill?"

    Hey Neal, Maybe if you had taken some of those dreaded women's studies courses in college you'd have learned that "shrill' is one of the classic anti-feminist epithets.

  • Two uncircumcised sons

    Neither of our sons is circumcised because as non-Jews, we just could not see a reason except that they might look more like other boys were we to circumcise them--and this did not seem like an adequate reason. So far, neither boy (now me) have ever expressed regret, and the elder has expressed appreciation that he was not, in his words, "mutilated." I hope we did the right thing, though I sometimes worry.

    Before I met my husband, my boyfriends were all rural southerners who were not circumcised, and I was frankly surprised to see what a circumcised man looked like! Believe me, it all makes no difference in terms of sexual appeal, in my opinion.

    As for the family dynamics and cultural issues in the story, that's another question.

  • IF THE SITUATION WAS REVERSED

    and women were circed in the USA while the men remained circ free, women would be lying in the street blocking traffic, busting down the halls of congress to get laws passed.

    but women, particularly feminists, are horrid evil hypocrites.

    FYI, my circ was botched. I had five operations when I was 9-11 to fix the problems. The problem was my penis retracted back into the body where my body, thinking the shaft skin was not needed, consumed the shaft skin. So they had to take scrotal skin and stretch it over the penis shaft after pulling the penis back out of the body.

    Lovely stuff.

    How the hell do I even know what my original shaft skin would have felt, would have felt like when having sex?

    But you women do not care, insisting it is too disgusting for a man to be au naturel, then insisting that a screwed up dick is also disgusting.

    If you women despise us men so much, nobody is asking you women to bed us men.

    I do not ask that only genitally mutilated women sleep with me. I could not imagine even thinking such a thing.

    But because you women feel you own us men, you have no problem imposing hypocritical cruel demands on us men.

    Seriously, am I the only one who sees this hypocrisy?!?