Old member/new me

[kimkabob5]

I've been so inflamed with the intactivist movement for many years. I've never before had a cause, never flung a flag, never sent propaganda....I'm a live and let live type of person.

But when a human being's basic human rights are being violated then I get all steamed up.

But something has changed. Me, the squeamish on that I can be, didn't blink an eye or feel the least bit faint at watching a newborn circumcision video or even seeing one in person. I felt indignant and angry...but it didn't hit me in my gut.

Now all I can do is either faint or cry. I've moved beyond the anger and into the empathy. I know what it is like to feel so much pain that you faint. I've been there. So reading about the procedure and how the babies react, or seeing the videos, or remembering watching one in person.....now it's personal.

I just don't know if this will make me a better or worse intactivist.

Have any of you come across this situation within yourselves?

[Night_Nurse]

Maybe it won't make you a better or worse intactivist, just a different one.
If you've experienced something like that, maybe you can now talk to other potential parents on a different level. Maybe your own personal experience will help them "get" what it means.
Either way, please continue trying to educate the masses and stoping the cycle of circ.

[fruitful womb]

Originally Posted by kimkabob5

I've been so inflamed with the intactivist movement for many years. I've never before had a cause, never flung a flag, never sent propaganda....I'm a live and let live type of person.

But when a human being's basic human rights are being violated then I get all steamed up.

But something has changed. Me, the squeamish on that I can be, didn't blink an eye or feel the least bit faint at watching a newborn circumcision video or even seeing one in person. I felt indignant and angry...but it didn't hit me in my gut.

Now all I can do is either faint or cry. I've moved beyond the anger and into the empathy. I know what it is like to feel so much pain that you faint. I've been there. So reading about the procedure and how the babies react, or seeing the videos, or remembering watching one in person.....now it's personal.

I just don't know if this will make me a better or worse intactivist.

Have any of you come across this situation within yourselves?

I know just how you feel. I sometimes think I'll go insane over this. I don't know if you noticed but every pro-circ I've encountered will attack with insults rather than reason. I admit, I've tried attacking that way and I'm not so good at it, name calling and all y'k. Its easier using arrows of knowledge. That seems to quiet them down a bit. My heart literally aches thinking about this sometimes. The only way I'm able to survive intactivism is to approach this as, "I'VE GOT GOOD NEWS!!!" Its hard to watch this Nation except the bigotry of RIC. Just listening to the medical community advise parents ill-information regarding the care of an intact body of a boy, makes me crazy. Its worse when they say, "I have the Medical License - What I say is right and your wrong." I'm rambling. Its good to have you on board. Doing something helps. When your active it helps and it makes you feel better. Helping the cause is the only way things will get better. Its this kind of positive that makes saving boys a whole lot easier to deal with.

Cheer up. RIC will be the thing of the past. How can it not? We care way too much for infants boys who are vulnerable to RIC.