Was looking for bras and saw Jenny McCarthy's book. I made a comment to the sales person "I can't believe you guys sell this, it's so horrible" (most of the books there were good pro-bfing etc) and she said "Oh I thought it was funny".
I blinked.
"She said she circumcised her son to have a PRETTY PENIS. That's really gross to me"
"Oh yeah I didn't like that part either. I circumcised my sons but not for THAT reason, it was the health reasons"
I CRINGE. She was older so it was in a time with less information but I still cringed. Conversation goes on casually, I mention Medicaid not covering it anymore.
"Why not?"
"Oh it's considered cosmetic now"
"What about the health reasons, did they just suddenly go away?"
At this point she was a bit peeved.
"Yes, actually, they did. It's all been basically disproven. No one else in the world does it anymore -- we spend a lot of time in the UK, in fact the baby is a citizen, and it's not even an option there"
"Really?"
"Yeah, like here's an example. You know they say lower UTIs?"
"Yeah..."
"Well that's a load of garbage. They used intact preemies versus full term circumcised neonates"
"Aw that's terrible, you can't do that...I wonder why --"
"Money. It's a billion dollar a year industry. $400+ a pop, what do you expect?"
She just agreed and that was about the end of it. But ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I am NEVER shopping in a maternity store again, I *HATE* conversations like that.
I blinked.
"She said she circumcised her son to have a PRETTY PENIS. That's really gross to me"
"Oh yeah I didn't like that part either. I circumcised my sons but not for THAT reason, it was the health reasons"
I CRINGE. She was older so it was in a time with less information but I still cringed. Conversation goes on casually, I mention Medicaid not covering it anymore.
"Why not?"
"Oh it's considered cosmetic now"
"What about the health reasons, did they just suddenly go away?"
At this point she was a bit peeved.
"Yes, actually, they did. It's all been basically disproven. No one else in the world does it anymore -- we spend a lot of time in the UK, in fact the baby is a citizen, and it's not even an option there"
"Really?"
"Yeah, like here's an example. You know they say lower UTIs?"
"Yeah..."
"Well that's a load of garbage. They used intact preemies versus full term circumcised neonates"
"Aw that's terrible, you can't do that...I wonder why --"
"Money. It's a billion dollar a year industry. $400+ a pop, what do you expect?"
She just agreed and that was about the end of it. But ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I am NEVER shopping in a maternity store again, I *HATE* conversations like that.
Well done, I would have probably just mumbled something to myself and walked out, hopefully you have planted a seed that will stop her grandsons being mutilated for "health reasons"
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