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>> ^hpqp:

Not comparable; models are starved by the fashion industry ("either you're a twig or you're fired/not hired" starved), whereas I doubt the network is pressuring this woman to be overweight. It would still be totally wrong to send an email to a model telling her she shouldn't be on tv/a podium because she's unhealthily skinny; that's still a personal attack.
>> ^SDGundamX:
[...] I'm a bit disturbed at the idea that pointing out that someone is overweight is somehow now "bullying." Is pointing out that so-called "supermodels" are too skinny also bullying? [...]


Seriously? You'd be against someone telling a clearly underweight supermodel that she's a role model for millions of young girls who are dangerously trying to emulate her--some through purging and others through diet pill abuse? That's bullying the supermodel? How about when a sports athlete gets caught driving drunk or engaging in other unethical behaviors (say, sending unsolicited pics of his private parts to females). Am I bullying him by sending him an email telling him how millions of kids look up to him and he needs to think about how his behavior affects them?

As others have already aptly pointed out, this was a private email. His concern seems to be with the message she's sending young female viewers. The proper response would have been the one I mentioned above--replying to his email and smacking him down about how his conception of being a proper role model only considers appearance and nothing else. Instead she went all hysterical publicly. Over one email. If this guy was sending emails every week, or if she were getting these kinds of emails from a host of people regularly, I'd see the need to do what she did.

Now, you're right--some people's obesity is medically-induced (blood-sugar issues, thyroid problems, etc.) but for the vast majority of Americans it is a lifestyle problem--too many calories and not enough exercise. Just to be clear, I'm not saying these people (of which I am one) are lazy--I'm saying they've made a choice to prioritize things other than their health. That is indeed their right and they shouldn't be disparaged for that, but at the same time we shouldn't pretend that there aren't any consequences (both to the individual and society) to that choice. And we certainly shouldn't call people who point out those consequences "bullies."

Again, just my 2 cents though. You and I don't see eye-to-eye on lots of issues (Islam, male circumcision, etc.) so I don't really expect us to agree on this issue either.

Wakeboarding + Skateboarding = self-circumcision.

Stop perpetuating the myths, @chingalera.
http://videosift.com/video/Circumcision-People-Are-Talking

And also, that is a terrible reason to chop foreskin off. Just wash your fucking cock!

>> ^Ryjkyj:

I know circumcision can be a touchy issue here sometimes, but I don't think there's a single member of this site who questions whether or not circumcision prevents AIDS. And I say that as a person who's son is circumcised, and who's stepfather died of AIDS.


you'd be surprised.

I know circumcision can be a touchy issue here sometimes, but I don't think there's a single member of this site who questions whether or not circumcision prevents AIDS. And I say that as a person who's son is circumcised, and who's stepfather died of AIDS.

I am all for mutilation. My Penis looks way sexier than with the curtains closed.

I should write an email to my parents right now, screw it, I am txting them.

" thanks for the circumcision, see you at reunion 2012 "

Thanks for the inspiration HPQP.

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I almost had an small adult circumcision for medical reasons (simply TOO BIG for the foreskin), but me a doctorman decided that we didn't have to cut too much, and just did a little snip thing. YOU HAVEN'T EXPERIENCED FEAR UNTIL BLOOD RUNS FROM YOUR PENIS!

Anyways, that was an example of an actual good reason for getting it. Mutilating children with this is just barbaric. We don't cut off parts of the ear, just because we get earwax, or because we have to "hear the word of God" - but we do if our earlobe gets skin cancer.


Reason, people. Germany has it. Well, they do now.

>> ^KnivesOut:

I'm not ashamed to admit that my circumcision was performed incorrectly (or at least my parents didn't monitor the healing process correctly) and I had a rather odd looking gentleman until just recently. It was a hassle to keep clean, and although none of my partners ever mentioned it, I've always been self-conscious about it. As a parent, I was extremely careful in making sure that my single off-spring didn't suffer the same fate.
The good news is that when I had my vasectomy done, the doctor offered to "take a little off the top" and correct the problem. The healing process was not pleasant, but I'm very pleased with the result. The amazing thing is it was all done for the office-visit co-pay.


Hence your username?

I'm not ashamed to admit that my circumcision was performed incorrectly (or at least my parents didn't monitor the healing process correctly) and I had a rather odd looking gentleman until just recently. It was a hassle to keep clean, and although none of my partners ever mentioned it, I've always been self-conscious about it. As a parent, I was extremely careful in making sure that my single off-spring didn't suffer the same fate.

The good news is that when I had my vasectomy done, the doctor offered to "take a little off the top" and correct the problem. The healing process was not pleasant, but I'm very pleased with the result. The amazing thing is it was all done for the office-visit co-pay.

Damn, I was hoping to be the first one to comment meaningfully about this subject: seems I came up short (zing!).

I am circumcised. My lady friend and I (who have been together more than five years) have discussed at length (oh! I'm too good) whether I would want a son of mine to be cut as well, so I have mulled this over quite a bit.

Being a nonsuperstitious man (read: nontheist), the only consideration on side of cutting my offspring is that moment in the shower when he is two years old and he asks, "Daddy, why are you different?" (Heading off those who do not yet have children in the close family, I should say that bathing at such a young age with the older crew is not uncommon no matter what your culture.) For a son to see that he is truly, physically different from his old man is probably quite a shock.

Here is the bottom line: I have ZERO PROBLEM WHATSOEVER telling my son that I was cut because of a superstition; that my penis looks the way it does because of a superstitious bond between my parents and their imaginary friend. I am in fact quite excited to tell my young man that there was a time when this kind of thing was necessary so that people could feel closer to whatever it was they thought made the universe. I am excited because it will engender in him the same cynicism that took me more than a decade to discover.

My own father was born and raised Catholic and went to Jesuit schools from pre-K to law school. As Jesus-loving and God-fearing as he was on the surface, he made sure to let me know the barbarism is barbarism. To imagine that genital mutilation is part of a legitimate religious commitment is so far out of whack with current legal and cultural norms. Fuck circumcision and all its superstitious implications.

i dont like circumcision but i enjoy the look... i don't know what i would have chosen had i the choice

As a circumcised Jew I still don't get why you cut so many there in the U.S... though in my own perspective, I must admit, when I see an uncircumcised penis, I find it funny looking... but that's just me! (and the rest of Israel)