OK, so it was all just fiction but it still made me happy. 
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I never watched Queer As Folk when it was on Showtime (I guess cuz I never had Showtime, haha) but have been catching re-runs lately on another network, and tonight's episode featured the planned circumcision of a week-old boy who was being raised by a lesbian couple who were long-term partners.
Well, right as the circumcision was about to begin---I sat there wincing and thinking, oh maaaannnnn don't do it...---the baby's biological father, having just been informed in a phone call about what his infant son's fate was to be, rushed in and put his foot down, no mutilation for his child! It was wonderful! An offscreen argument ensued between the child's anti-circing father, his biological mother (one of the two women in the committed gay relationship) and the pro-circ other female parent, and in the end the child was left intact! Not only was he left intact but in a later scene the biological mother informed/reminded her partner that (to paraphrase according to memory) "many men regard circumcision as a brutal act that deprives them of their physical birth rite."
YES!!!
I felt like getting up and dancing it was so unexpected and rare to have intactivism in the media, which at best normally showcases circumcision as a prop for humor. I have a new appreciation and respect for QAF, and offer my belated salute to its writers and producers for that brave twist in the plotline!
:I never watched Queer As Folk when it was on Showtime (I guess cuz I never had Showtime, haha) but have been catching re-runs lately on another network, and tonight's episode featured the planned circumcision of a week-old boy who was being raised by a lesbian couple who were long-term partners.
Well, right as the circumcision was about to begin---I sat there wincing and thinking, oh maaaannnnn don't do it...---the baby's biological father, having just been informed in a phone call about what his infant son's fate was to be, rushed in and put his foot down, no mutilation for his child! It was wonderful! An offscreen argument ensued between the child's anti-circing father, his biological mother (one of the two women in the committed gay relationship) and the pro-circ other female parent, and in the end the child was left intact! Not only was he left intact but in a later scene the biological mother informed/reminded her partner that (to paraphrase according to memory) "many men regard circumcision as a brutal act that deprives them of their physical birth rite."
YES!!!
I felt like getting up and dancing it was so unexpected and rare to have intactivism in the media, which at best normally showcases circumcision as a prop for humor. I have a new appreciation and respect for QAF, and offer my belated salute to its writers and producers for that brave twist in the plotline!
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