When A Child Asks!

[grendal82002]

You know I've been thinking. In 11th grade ( which wasn't too long ago) I had a hippie (spelling) teacher. He always said, to us:
"Dont do anything that you cant talk to your mother about truthfully while eating at the dinner table."
And I've realized that pro-circs when asked by their child about their genitals they tend to sugar code what they say to make it sound nice, but the other parents, the anit-circs, the ones who didnt circ their sons tend to just flat out tell the truth. Thats very interesting.
I, personally, think this is because the anti-circ parents who didn't circumcise their child know they have nothing to hide ( this also goes for those parents who realized they made a mistake and didnt circumcise their second son and so on), while the parents who did, even though they wont admit it deep down know they did something wrong and they just dont want to if not refuses to admit it.

What do the rest of you think? I would like to here your opinion.


Sheldon

[KMK_Mama]

Very true. I would have to agree with this.

I have often wondered what my brothers are going to tell their sons and what my friend is going to tell hers if the subject ever comes up. If they don't realize they did something wrong, which at this point, they don't, I can imagine they will just tell them what they were told and the reason they circ'd. One of my brothers did it so his boys wouldn't feel different, and my other brother said that he knows it wasn't needed, but the Doc "talked them into it" because HIS boys got circ'd at the age of 16 because they were embarrasses to change in the locker room. So, there you go. Another Doc spreading ignorance and the "locker room excuse."

I have never talked to my friend about it, because she gets VERY defensive about everything and I know it would turn into a fight. She thinks I am weird for leaving my son intact....

I secretly hope their children have a problem with it in the future, because as of now, they don't see that they did anything wrong. THAT is wrong to me and I would hope that at some point they will learn their lesson. :

[kldliam]

i couldn't agree more Sheldon.

[eepster]

I love that quote do you know if he made it up or if he got it somewhere. It could apply to so much, but it is such a great thing to say about circ.

[grendal82002]

Originally Posted by eepster

I love that quote do you know if he made it up or if he got it somewhere. It could apply to so much, but it is such a great thing to say about circ.

I am pretty sure he made it up himself.

[trmpetplaya]

Yep. For sure. I have also noticed the tendency for circumcising parents to sugar-coat it. They refer to it as "the circumcision/surgery" instead of to "the remnants" or "the wound" which would both be much more accurate...

love and peace.

[TigerTail]

Yeah, I thought this would be something else. I can tell my kids pretty straightforwardly what was not done to them. At the dinner table no less.

Nice quote!

[MommytoB]

I have to say that most parents who end up circing their child may not have seen their boy within the intact time or so soon as after birth. They 'get used to 'circ'ed as if boys were born circ'ed and some may 'treat it that way not even telling of 'surgery'. Then some parents are sugar coaters like little snip, little cut like when you cut a umbilical cord.

At times, I want to 'flat out say something' that could hurt or 'shock someone at my statement. Like for example my cousin was talking in a poker game with 6 cousins and one uncle (after he got drunk) about how at the 'restaurant he works at that there were some teen guys masturbating making it sound like so painful and so much I wanted to say I bet because they didn't have their foreskin to play with but I kept my mouth shut because my cousin is 'circ'ed and I didn't want to offend him. It's like 'even intactivist think 'truthfully' but try to be careful while saying it because you don't know 'what they learned about what they are missing.

Just like 'girls they grow up in a 'circ'ed family they may not know any difference til they meet an intact guy just like me I knew nothing 'really of circumcision all i knew was it was done to boys in hospital -no details of what it removed it was just something that happened to boys . No talk of foreskin at all. I had to learn the difference at age 24 but I had to learn the shock and horror of what circ really is at the age of 26/27.

[kxsiven]

Yes. And just imagine what legacy pro-circers leave to their children; 'it was just a little snip to get rid of icky part of your penis'. How 'wonderful' to tell a child that there was something icky in his genitals.

When my children are older I will tell them exactly what FGM and MGM are and how they are done. Since they do have circumcised american cousins it is very important that they know.