People may respond to a horrific incident or revelation with shock. If the triggering event is massive enough, that shock may manifest itself as denial of the shock itself. One could hypothesize that the denial of circumcision harm, so obvious to outsiders with normal bodies, is a type of shock. A friend wrote me this afternoon, Think of the most vile awful thing you can do...and then to a baby (aside from cutting their penis), for example cutting their lips off their face. Now accept that you cut their lips off because it was normal to you. Less chance of herpes. Less likely to kiss and get sick. Its just unnecessary extra skin on the face that promotes promiscuity. Now pretend its the norm. Three or four generations of this continued practice. Of these lies. And someone comes and tells that mutilated child or grandchild that its all a lie. That her or his mother lied to them. They had accepted this lie. And you inflicted this unnecessary harm to your child. And they to their child and their child and so on. That the mistake had gone viral and had become a parental choice. But it had no purpose and was actually a barbaric, savage and harmful act. This is the worst thing to hear. A horrific thing to think about. You have two choices. With this horrific news you can either accept and begin the grieving process. Or deny its truth, and pretend you live in a world where you were not lied to. And hold on to that lie as strong as you can until you die because the truth is more painful than your mutilated body and your decision to pass the mutilation on. ~A friend
Posted on: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 01:05:53 +0000