Traditional initiation is a rite of passage into manhood for young males that is practiced by various ethnic groups in Africa, including parts of South Africa. Among them are the Xhosa, Ndebele, Sotho and Venda communities.
Only you’re blowing it out of proportion to support the bullshit cultural agenda you started this stupid debate with. Now you’re switching tracks to make it about health and wellness?
As many as 20% of young boys will get an infection due to not being able to properly clean the tip of the penis before the foreskin can be retracted. Boys between the ages of 2 and 5 are at the highest risk of infection.
It’s always about the health and well-being of young boys. However, the differences in its acceptance are often cultural. Your culture views it as barbaric, and looks down on those that practice it.
That seems like it falls into the same category as ‘protecting your children from all the scary shit on the internet’.
Like, sure, but your action seems awfully severe and like it wouldn’t do that. Like the action and proclaimed goal have never been in the same room.
Plus modern western conceptions of pain are bullshit and I kind of think it exists purely as an excuse to abusive authority that can only be justified by the fact pain-fear is the dumbest easiest and therefore most-popular-among-authorities method of control, so physical cowardice has become a kind of synonym for loyalty/virtue. But that’s besides the point, I’m sure these infections you’re talking about are real and dangerous and not mostly made up hyperbolizing.
Protecting your child from potentially painful infections during their early childhood, is not child abuse.
Only you’re blowing it out of proportion to support the bullshit cultural agenda you started this stupid debate with. Now you’re switching tracks to make it about health and wellness?
As many as 20% of young boys will get an infection due to not being able to properly clean the tip of the penis before the foreskin can be retracted. Boys between the ages of 2 and 5 are at the highest risk of infection.
It’s always about the health and well-being of young boys. However, the differences in its acceptance are often cultural. Your culture views it as barbaric, and looks down on those that practice it.
Shoooooosh!
That seems like it falls into the same category as ‘protecting your children from all the scary shit on the internet’.
Like, sure, but your action seems awfully severe and like it wouldn’t do that. Like the action and proclaimed goal have never been in the same room.
Plus modern western conceptions of pain are bullshit and I kind of think it exists purely as an excuse to abusive authority that can only be justified by the fact pain-fear is the dumbest easiest and therefore most-popular-among-authorities method of control, so physical cowardice has become a kind of synonym for loyalty/virtue. But that’s besides the point, I’m sure these infections you’re talking about are real and dangerous and not mostly made up hyperbolizing.