[lbo-talk] on circumcision

123hop at comcast.net 123hop at comcast.net
Sun Sep 2 21:25:18 PDT 2012


Good point about birth trauma.

Why did I read a lot of this stuff? Just happened upon it. One more thing to make me feel guilty about parenting.

Joanna

----- Original Message ----- Why have you read a lot of this stuff? You know it's neuropsychologically impossible for a newborn to be scarred by, comprehend, or remember anything that happens in the first few months of life. Birth itself would be far more traumatic than circumcision, so we'd all have PTSD, right?

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On Sep 2, 2012, at 7:43 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote:


> She's not making anything up. I've read a lot of this stuff -- PTSD narratives relating to circumcision -- and she's right.
>
> Joanna
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> At 6:46 PM -0400 2/9/12, shag carpet bomb wrote:
>
>> Also see it as a bit of anti-feminist posturing among some of the
>> rhetoric I saw. When these guys would show up in the feminist
>> blogosphere, they'd want to take center stage to discuss *their*
>> trauma and make feminists understand that they deserved to be heard
>> too. *They* were traumatized, suffering PTSD, their lives stunted by
>> the event at age 1 day, carrying around the scars and pain since
>> nearly the day they were born, etc. etc. They'd talk about
>> undergoing therapy to relive the event and heal, etc. This was
>> from the MRA - men's rights activist - crowd. *shrug*
>
> Are you making all that up? Surely you must be?
>
> Bill Bartlett
> Bracknell Tas
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