Mainly About Circumcision

Most experts believe we don’t eat enough fruit and vegetables which help us stay  healthy. Governments run campaigns to encourage people to consume more and “five a day” (i.e. five portions of fruit or veg) is a frequently used slogan. Uptake is not great, I think the problem is that the adverts are simply not appealing to the target audience.  Here is my humble effort.

A lower tech variation of the “Oops!” (smartphone screen) post which originated from @snippykins

This is from:  Desperate Housewives Season 4 Episode 7

Discussion of circumcision crops up from time to time during the episode but this is the crucial bit. Sorry, I don’t know the character names, so I’ve just used Husband & Wife in the short transcript.

Background: A new baby. The wife has been out most of the day presumed shopping; actually she attends a bris being held by a Jewish aquaintance and managed to convince the mohel to circumcise her baby in addition as a “favour”.

Scene begins with wife entering the house carrying shopping bags and a baby, Husband is relaxing on the couch...

Husband: Hey, where have you been? I woke up, and you were gone.

Wife: Oh, we had a very busy day. We dropped off the dry cleaning, We deposited money into our christmas account, And then we got circumcised.

Husband: You did what?!

Wife: It's just a little unsightly foreskin. He'll never miss it.

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If she was your Mother and had you circumcised would you be grateful or angry?

The delightful Stacey Solomon (UK Celeb) has Jewish heritage so not long after his birth she unsurprisingly went ahead with a circumcision and openly confirmed he’d been circumcised.

A little while later she’s said she had doubts about getting him circumcised. I suspect that shouty Intactivists have been bombarding her with disapproval (and that’s describing it charitably). Since then she’s had more boys and it seems that she may have left them intact.

Nobody is compelled to circumcise their baby boy even though it does have legitimate (albeit small) medical benefits. It seems anything is fair game to intactivists who think they can bully or shame parents in to not circumcising.