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Cake day: June 20th, 2023

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  • Infections like thrush are possible when you’re uncircumcised. It actually has its own little biome going, just like a vagina, and can have that disrupted all the same. For comparison, vaccinations can also cause issues but for both it’s exceedingly rare enough to get such serious complications that major intervention, like your buddy’s circumcision, are needed.

    What we need to do is destigmatise seeing a doctor when things down there aren’t 100%, especially so for men. Because I’m willing to bet things would have been fine for your buddy with just a cream if he’d gotten help sooner, though obviously I don’t know his circumstances and don’t want to blame it on him when it’s society with the weird hang-ups.






  • On the other side, I’ve met a guy who was bullied in high school so bad for it he got a circ as an adult. Apparently crazy painful recovery. I’ve also talked to women who are generally grossed out by uncircumcised men. I don’t want to make him feel like something’s wrong with him his whole life because I was uncomfortable with the idea.

    I feel like this would happen as well to folks that are circumcised often enough of like “there was something wrong with me so they had to cut a bit off” I dunno… I think that most of this idea of grossness comes from this weird idea that it’s inherently unclean. But it takes literally five seconds to pull back the foreskin and rinse it in the shower.

    Also, not for nothing but if you have an intersex child with genital variation, doctor’s use the excuse of doing a circumcision to perform even worse forms of genital mutilation, like peenectomy and then vulvoplasty (the surgeries trans women get). They’ll hand your child back to you and go “oops, we mucked up, they’re actually a girl” without ever getting your consent. About 1.7% of babies are born with visible intersex traits by the way (the rate of intersex people is much higher but those conditions are usually found in puberty or later).







  • Your media has been covering up for this descent into fascism my entire lifetime and I’m in my 30s. After 9/11 they literally, jingoistically called for the US to invade foreign countries, fear-mongered for views, all while dragging my country into those wars lest we end up like “freedom fries” France. I guess if you grew up in the Obama era, there would have seemed like a brief respite from the descent into fascism, but it was all political spin and no substance. Sitting where I am, the Democrats are a right-leaning party. THAT’S your “left wing” so anything further right is obviously going to be fascist in a country so nationalistic.

    Trump LITERALLY incited an insurrection during his first term. Any “respected analyst” that wouldn’t call him a fascist just had too much faith in your already very broken institutions.

    Mx is the gender neutral btw.






  • The Humanitarianism in Western “Democracies” was always performative, the least democratic the nation the more performative it was, which I why generally you see the most support for Israel in the countries with the least democratic voting systems like the US and the UK (though present day Germany is a bit of an exception to this since they have a mixed voting system with a Proportional Vote component).

    I don’t think that there’s any causal link there. New Zealand still doesn’t recognise the Palestinian state and has arguably the most democratic voting system. Australia has just recognised it (same as the UK) but still fund it, and we have a fairly democratic voting system.