Never seen an em-dash placed within a hyphenated word before (“death—cult”)
“No girl genital mutilation”
None for boys either, right?
Right?!
Good thing they don’t read the Bible, because other than the pet dog thing, it’s a tie
Sounds like a lot of Epstein projection
Look at these scary sounding words!
Vote for me!
On a side note: let’s ban ALL religions, the world will thank you the world population will, well, the first generation will curse us, while every next generation will thank is for not being beholden anymore to badly written stonage fairytales
Weren’t there files released that pointed to Melania actually being underage when she started her relationship with Trump?
Sorry, sorry, it was referred to as him riding the ‘Lolita Express’. Fuck I hate these people.
Good thing we only mutilate boys’ genitals.
It’s still shocking to me how most Americans consider genital mutilation a normal thing. My European mind can’t comprehend.
If it shocks you farther, it’s just a little check box when you have a baby boy. Just a little bit of the paperwork before discharge. You don’t even have to be there, and it’s “free”. Very strange, all things considered.
Free? Free?!! In a hospital, in the U S of A?!!! Ok now I’m really shocked.
It’s not free. It costs hundreds of dollars. The user above may have had it covered by insurance, but that’s a different thing. Entirely NOT free
Oh, phew. I was worried for a minute there.
Well, it’s “free” under insurance, yes. The bigger thing is that it’s covered under every insurance and I think Medicaid, the public assistance healthcare. Not that it’s all that expensive when a birth is like, tens of thousands of dollars sometimes.
I’ve never met anyone who paid for it, though. I wouldn’t be surprised if it was in law that you had to cover it (while shit like birth control is still debated).
If it’s done while inpatient it is covered by most insurances as part of labor and delivery. When you are discharged for the hospital it would be considered cosmetic surgery.
Insurance gets charged if it is done, but a friend told me there is no actual charge to the parents. She said there was a lot of pushback about not getting it done and that was one of their “selling points” when she said she wasn’t going to pay for it. Seems like fraud of some kind.
I mean, if insurance fully covers it, then the parents don’t get charged. That’s not fraud. That’s just how that works. It’s weird the hospital was so pushy about it though
“Now that your son is born, would you also like us to cut off a bit of his penis? It’s only $500 if you have a coupon!”
They’re just correcting God’s design a little.
Do you get to keep the leftovers?
Only at hospitals that decline to accept tips.
Nah… they let you keep the placenta, sure, but the doc gets to keep the foreskin for their special baby skin leather doctor’s coats.
Thank you for mentioning this. I don’t even have that set of equipment, and it boggles my mind that this is normal and acceptable to anyone. Even using religion as a reason just seems ridiculous. Why the hell would you ever cause that much physical pain to a child for a cosmetic procedure?
“Oh, they’re transing the kids!” Fucker, you asked your doctor to cut off part of your son’s junk before he even developed the capacity to lift his own head. Shut the fuck up.
Haha, oh honey circumcision may be the most common genital mutilation procedure, but wait til you learn how those transphobic motherfuckers write exceptions for coercive intersex surgeries into their anti trans laws.
Really can’t be overstated how different “female circumcision” is from the male version.
Like comparing ear piercings to ear cropping.
Saying they’re the same is bad but comparing circumcision to ear piercing is even worse. Piercings heal, that foreskin is gone forever.
Speak for yourself. My dad gave me mine on my 18th birthday and i planted it in the garden.
You sprout some wood?
So do you think the mild forms of FGM should be allowed because those are pretty comparable to the male one? Personally I think both should be banned.
I think banning circumcision runs you into many of the same problems that are encountered with banning abortion or gender transition. Or tattoos and ear piercings, for that matter. Or drinking.
You can scare physicians/professionals into refusing to perform it. But then you deal with all the amateurs and their consequences.
Gender transition and abortion are also illegal to do without consent
They’re illegal to do with consent.
I think the point is that it’s not a great comparison because the main argument against circumcision is that it’s permanent and babies can’t consent to it, I don’t think many people try to say that no one should ever be allowed to get a circumcision.
babies can’t consent
Parents make a whole host of medical decisions for their kids that they don’t formally consent to.
Just pounding on consent gets you in the same circle as the anti-vaxers
I don’t think many people try to say that no one should ever be allowed to get a circumcision.
I see a desire to make false equivalency between two very different procedures, because they both have “circumcision” in the name.
Depends where, they are legal with consent in most western countries.
They should both be banned
Please elaborate on how Type IIa (by World Health Organization standards) differs so greatly. e: Also, why comparison is even relevant here.
Please elaborate on how Type IIa
defined as the removal of the labia minora
two hairless, highly sensitive cutaneous folds located within the labia majora, surrounding the vaginal and urethral openings
:-/
Hmm, since prepuce (foreskin) is a hairless, highly-sensitive cutaneous fold covering and protecting the glans, why is it okay to remove one, but not the other? Or, since they derive from the same zygotic tissue and are homologous, why is it not okay to excise the clitoral hood?
I keep asking these questions, and nobody ever has a good answer, and the only difference that I can divine is that one is okay because it’s done to boys.
Is the Sharia Law in the state with you right now?
What’s the point in creating a law that bans Sharia Law when the people who would allegedly institute mandatory observation of Sharia Law would just vote to repeal it and then institute it anyway?
Oh, right, Republicans are fucking idiots and this is scaremongering to drive them to the polls.
A lot of this is a tacit attempt to control Muslim municipal populations be restricting how they govern themselves locally.
So you can step in at the state (maybe federal, if Chip Roy gets his way) level and announce this mayor or judge or city council is illegitimate because the leadership isn’t Christian.
Very specifically, this is in response to EPIC City, a master-planned community north of Dallas that’s being bankrolled by a group of Muslim real estate developers. But you can see it echoing the disgust conservatives have for Minneapolis and Dearborn, Michigan, with their own large Muslim populations.
Why would they choose Texas for their EPIC city? Is north of Dallas just an area with an existing Muslim population or financially smart area?
Probably an existing muslim population. I believe I remember hearing that the largest muslim community in the u.s. was in texas a few years ago. Maybe near houston, I think.
Funny that no dogs made the list, as the anchor no less. Like that was the one that would clinch the point for MAGATS (you know, cuz they are into the child marriage and hatred of women thing themselves)
Do Americans actually get text messages like those? I thought it was a joke
The dem ones are at least somewhat sane
YMMV. But if you volunteer regularly for campaigns, your number/address inevitably ends up on someone’s suckers list. And then election season means getting your phone blown up by these as the voting deadline closes in.
Yes
We also get them as postcards
Where’s the reset button? Do I have to stick a needle into the Washington Monument or something?
I have personally never gotten any voting text messages, but I’ve received a few voting emails recently from the scum in my neck of the woods. I personally find it sad and pathetic, but then again, I’m not the type who is easily swayed by an email or text.
- Texas keeps trying to force Christianity into public schools
- Texas has a bounty system for women who lose a child in childbirth
- Texas continues to use the 13th loophole to compel labor without pay for prisoners
- In Texas, emancipated minors and teens with parental permission can be married over the age of 16
- Texas actually bans FGM, but they do allow male genital mutilation
- Texas police do also shoot dogs.
Some real big projection going on.
Excuse me but Republicans have been in control of Texas for like 30 years straight. So does that mean that they the Republicans are trying to install Sharia law in order to prevent it?
Very specifically, this is in response to EPIC City, a master-planned community north of Dallas that’s being bankrolled by a group of Muslim real estate developers. But you can see it echoing the disgust conservatives have for Minneapolis and Dearborn, Michigan, with their own large Muslim populations.
Fundies are salivating to do the same thing
Seriously I was waiting for the punch line at the bottom, “… Just like Christian Nationalists”
“NO religious freedom,” so let’s ban that religion? Every religion believes theirs is correct.
“Women brutalized” “Slavery allowed” “Child marriage & rape” These things are already illegal from our other laws.
“Girl genital mutilation” I think this one is already illegal, as well.
“No pet dogs allowed” First of all, wut? But second of all, I’d love to see some Texas politician try to pass a law that outlawed pet dogs. They’d probably get shot to death by the other politicians before they left the chamber.
“BAN SHARIA NOW!” BAN MARTIANS NOW! BAN FISH RIDING BICYCLES NOW! BAN ADULTS FROM SEEING WHY KIDS LOVE CINNAMON TOAST CRUNCH NOW! BAN LICKING UNTIL YOU GET TO THE TOOTSIE ROLL CENTER OF A TOOTSIE POP NOW!
BAN POLITICIANS WHO WASTE OUR TIME WITH MEANINGLESS LAWS AND CULTURE WARS NOW!
Every religion believes theirs is correct.
From a purely argumentative standpoint, that doesn’t mean that one of them isn’t. Again, strictly from a rhetorical point of view.
These things are already illegal from our other laws
From a rhetorical point of view, strictly, one could say, if one were to defend the statement, which I’m not, but one could, hypothetically say that any religion actively espousing those things is worthy of condemnation regardless of our laws.
“Girl genital mutilation”
Same goes for this. Hypothetically.
“No pet dogs allowed”
Yeah I don’t know either. Even hypothetically.
BAN MARTIANS NOW!
No notes.
Child marriage and rape (within marriage) are legal in far too many US States.
Slavery is allowed in far too many US States.
Brutalizing women (if you consider things like revocation of bodily autonomy or incarceration for miscarriages) is legal in far too many US States. If you consider unpunished crimes against women, though illegal, it is far too common in many US States.
Many landlords forbid having pets and there’s little to no recourse for pets killed by the state.
Also these are laws that Christians insisted were fundamental for their religion in our country’s past. Hell, some still say that.
