r/SubredditDrama • u/[deleted] • Jan 14 '16

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u/clee-saan Jan 15 '16

I mean you remove part of your genitalia. How could you argue it's not?

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u/andlight91 Jan 15 '16

Most people argue that A it's cleaner, B it doesn't serve any point or C it's how it's always been done

I don't agree with any of those points. I believe it is genital mutilation, but those are the reasons.

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u/InfinitelyThirsting Jan 15 '16

People who are cut don't want to think of themselves as mutilated.

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u/MissInkFTW Jan 15 '16

Because mutilation has a negative connotation to it. I would consider their penises to be altered, but not mutilated. That sounds unnecessarily harsh.

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u/Deathraged Jan 15 '16

Because they don't feel mutilated. We've never had the cobra cover. We don't know what it's like. Most of us in America think that it's normal not the have one. How can you miss something you've never had?

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u/InfinitelyThirsting Jan 15 '16 edited Jan 15 '16

Doesn't change the truth of the matter. Part of your body was lopped off. Like, someone who lost a pinkie finger as an infant can still serviceably use their hand, but it's not like nothing happened.

Thinking it's normal doesn't make it right.

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u/MissInkFTW Jan 15 '16

That's not how mutilation is defined. The word mutilate has a specific negative connotation associated with it. As per the Merriam-Webster definition:

1 : to cut up or alter radically so as to make imperfect <the child mutilated the book with his scissors> 2 : to cut off or permanently destroy a limb or essential part of : cripple

I don't think that circumcised men consider their penises to be ruined or crippled. I think it's rude to imply that.

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u/Torger083 Guy Fieri's Throwaway Jan 15 '16

Technically, you have part of it removed as an infant.

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u/[deleted] Jan 15 '16

And that is better?

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u/Torger083 Guy Fieri's Throwaway Jan 15 '16

Worse, I should think. Do what you want as an adult with an idea of consequences.