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I CAN HAS PULL-QUOTE?

I suspect that this is captionable.

"...we know you're rooting for us, but now we have to gooooooo..."

Yeah, I can do that.

Anyway, since I don't want to go to Sully's padded cell on the internet, what's he wetting his custom-studded leather crotchless pants about this time?

Debating whether this is captionable...:

Genital Mutilation Update
09 Nov 2007 06:54 am

The Oregon court heard oral arguments yesterday on a ground-breaking circumcision case:

The case pits divorced parents named James and Lia Boldt against each other. The father, a lawyer, recently converted to Judaism and wants to circumcise his 12-year-old son, over whom he has full custody. The mother doesn’t want the circumcision to take place. It’s not clear what the kid wants. The lower court dismissed the wife’s challenge, and she’s appealing the decision.

Yesterday, the mother’s attorney Clay Patrick — a self described “lawyer’s lawyer” — told the court that the circumcision posed “an unreasonable and unnecessarily high risk to the child.” Patrick said that even though the father had full custody, the mother was entitled to a court hearing because the procedure amounts to “sex abuse or physical abuse.” He said to the judges: “If the custodial parent wanted to amputate some other body part, I think the court would step in and say you can’t do that.”

There are some religious freedom arguments involved - if religious freedom means subjecting a twelve-year-old to permanent bodily mutilation. The father says he can do anything he wants to his son's body, barring something like tattooing "a swastika on his forehead." Here's the NYSun coverage. Weird sub-plot:

The anti-circumcision brief notes that during a prior court proceeding unrelated to the circumcision issue, the Boldts agreed that they had a dominant-submissive relationship — in which Mr. Boldt was "god" or "sovereign" — and that sometimes involved Mr. Boldt administering beatings to his wife, who assumed the role of "slave girl." The Boldts' son "must not be abandoned by the courts, to become embroiled in his father's need for a replacement slave … if that is what happened," the anti-circumcision group argued.

And how about this one?

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So, basically, Sully is obsessed with uncut 12 year old d**k. How sick is that.

About as sick as comparing circumcision to clitoridectomy.

I've noticed that boy circumcision is VERY contentious nowadays. Aside from the familial uproar we experienced while I was knocked up with my son, there are entire message boards on both sides of the subject devoted to slamming the other side in the most nasty way possible.

Something I really don't get at all - I mean, it's a choice all parents of boys make according to their own beliefs and research. However, I've seen the intactivist groups marching at Berkeley parades (picture Munch here) and they take it entirely too far. I've also been practically assaulted by pro-circ people who have harangued me on several emotional issues about circumcision.

This kid, though, is 12. So I'm trying to figure out why the court has not taken his wants into account.

afw- did you post the Stormi link?

A few weeks ago I saw a woman and her 5 or 6-year-old son get into a car that had- not one or two, but several- anticircumcision bumper stickers on the back.

I'm thinking that poor kid probably asks him mom to drop him off a few blocks away from school.

It's because we've created a whole society of busy-bodies. We've empowered every Mrs. Kravitz in the world to impose her views on everybody else instead of respecting individual choices.

Ummm... wouldn't he be wetting the floor (or his chair) if the pants were crotchless?

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Is this Little Shop of Horrors?

Yes, a community theater production thereof in my hometown.

It's VERY painful at the age of 12.

Yes, I had a Filipino friend who was circumcised at about that age (the custom there) - he told me that his mother told him "so now you will know the pain I experienced when I gave birth to you".

And having had an operation in the same area just a few years ago, I can confirm it, too.

Even putting the wrong kind of skin lotion down there can cause a week of pain and swelling.

TMI!

And this isn't?

wetting his custom-studded leather crotchless pants

:P

No worse than my sister telling my son about her husband's vasectomy. Granted, she was drunk at the time...

I didn't know Stephen Hawking was playing the Rick Moranis role - or that he was out of a wheelcvhair, for that matter.