disharmonia

Basically just that it's still not okay to do that to an infant, even if they don't have a problem with it later in life.

I think the majority of circumcised men don't have a problem with their circumcision, but the argument of 'they're okay with it now' isn't an adequate justification for doing cosmetic surgery on a newborn.

Just put it in a different context: what if your parents had gotten you a nose job, the day you were born? Yeah, you'd have grown up with this nose and never known any different, and yeah, it's never caused you any problems...but why the hell would you do that to an infant who can't consent?

As someone with many piercings, I fully approve of bodily autonomy. If you're over 18 and you want to mutilate your genitals, with piercings, tattoos, or circumcision, be it male or female, then that's between you and your doctor/licensed piercing artist and no one else. But you can't do that to unconsenting infants. Maybe they won't have a problem with it, and yes, that's better than the alternative, but it's still not alright.

That would be my explanation.

The best response to this, for me, is:

"Sometimes teeth can get cavities, so we knock everyone's teeth out when they grow in, just in case."

Just saw the documentary this weekend. I'm so glad someone is trying to bring attention to these programs and the abuse, and even death, that they enact.

Did your treatment at the school change in the seven weeks after people attempted to get you out? What was your life like during that period?

If you're writing the Buffy season 10 comic series...

Can Xander please, please please please get his comeuppance for lying to Buffy at the end of season two? I know this is way old history, and a bit ridiculous of me, but it drove me nuts that Xander tells Buffy to kick Angel's ass, and doesn't tell her that Willow is attempting the spell again -- like Willow asked him to.

I always expected this truth to be revealed, like most lies/hidden truths/dramatic things are in Whedon properties, but it feels like it just got forgotten.

And after lying to Buffy, Xander got to tell her what a bad person she was when she returned from LA :/

I love Xander, I do. But I wish he'd own up to his part in that, and have to deal with the fact that he kinda betrayed his friends and got away with it.

Please?

Yeah, I remember getting super excited, thinking it was finally happening, but then like...nothing really came of it? It was mentioned and then dropped, and I was sad :(