Västra Götaland Parliament: Genital mutilation of boys is OK

So much for equality. When it comes to boys, it’s OK to mutilate.

Ugh had a debate with someone who was ostensibly anti-circumcision. I took issue with her saying that MGM was not motivated by an attempt to control male sexuality and that it didn’t effect male sexual feeling (“sometimes it increases sensitivity” she said).

My point was that she was minimizing the practice by reducing its harm essentially to the perpetration of the act itself and nothing beyond that. I believe I made a comparison to FGM by saying it was “absurd” to claim that it was the sole form of circumcision with an ideological motivation or a harm to longterm sexual health – but not at ALL out of an attempt to “minimize” FGM or claim that circumcision was worse (or even comparable) in *most* cases.

The person (whom I had assumed would be sympathetic) was very thin-skinned and took my complaint as an attack on someone who called circumcision “reprehensible” (I believe was the word). I was being slightly pedantic, but I pointed out that I was pushing back against what I saw as a social acceptance of certain pro-circumcision myths that are widely accepted by broader society and I just wanted her to do better.

By the time I had shut down the conversation I was being accused of saying MGM is *worse* and more devastating than FGM, that I was trying to “minimize” FGM by making even the most tangential and minimal comparison, that I was making it impossible to talk about male circumcision and that I was a MRA/SJW.

This was from someone claiming to be “anti-circ,” proving once again that even openly discussing these issues is a radical act.

Well, this is not about the human right of male children to body sovereignty/integrity in the political sphere in Sweden: it’s about making sure the government aren’t ‘stigmatising’ genital mutilating minority cultures. Swedish society, like most on this planet, do not practice genital mutilation except for the rare incidence where no other non-surgical remedy is effective for acute an acute problem, the remedy sometimes being a dorsal slit or a circumcision. But to be politically correct, which is it’s own religion, the government cannot and will not enact universal legislation that would ‘alienate’ or put into question certain minority rituals affecting their sons. The poor boys of Muslims, some African cultures and Jews will just have to be thrown under the bus to avoid accusations of ‘persecution’. It is the sacrificing male sexuality for the sake of ‘social cohesion’. If the majority of Swedes disagree with this craven pandering to cultural relativism they have the civic obligation to oust these politicians and hold them accountable for this abandonment of male rights of the child.