Excellent point - I hadn't considered how 'every day' these medical issues could be. Which raises an irritating point about responsible reporting, but that's for another day...

I'm not sure why you're explaining this to me, when I was offering a totally tongue-in-cheek interpretation of Jennifer Love Hewitt's comment, and not actually mourning the death of 70s-era consciousness-raising myself.

Please take this information with a grain of salt. Even the American Pediatric Association's official stance is "There's no particularly compelling reason to do this across the board."

Oh fuck off with your smegma diatribe, you're as bad as a frat bro dissing vaginas as being fishy smelling. Grow the fuck up. You support an act that denies bodily consent. You sure have bought into the propaganda. As a European I find such exclamations entirely dubious. You know what extra precautions are taken?…

Yeeeeaahh...my ex was uncircumcised and he was always clean. All you have to do is, you know, wash it.

Extra precautions? How hard is it for him to keep his wang clean? I've never once had any hygiene problems or weird infections, not a one. And, smegma? Really? Homeboy needs to shower more often or something..

I'm living in England, and it's really strange because I'd never seen an uncircumcised penis until moving here from the South. Here, no one in any of my circles has done it to their children. My husband says the main argument against it is reduced sexual feeling, so British people are less likely to go: "Ew! This…

"I'm more upset with the girl in this than I am the dad TBH."

You can't deny entry to your own citizens and presidents are citizens.

"the hypocrisy of the U.S. government denying Lawson entry and allowing Toronto Mayor Rob Ford to enter"

Well, no. Finland was attacked by the Soviet Union and received no support from anywhere except finally from Germany. When you have to choose between Stalin and Hitler, it's not like there's a right choice.

I think Jezebel considered the story bullshit so that's why it wasn't treated with more disdain.

Oh come now...

The father told deputies that Johran dropped his hands as if to grab something, so he opened fire. Johran was shot in the head and died at the scene.

Oh, please. Don't even try it. You said something that was just plain wrong and you were corrected. There's no unreasonable stan war going on. You'll just have to deal with the fact that you were wrong about something on the internets today.

Yes, you said you don't follow her closely and then declared that she should be involved in important causes. Your words, not mine. If you don't know anything about her, then why imply that she's not philanthropic enough for you?

Yeah, except if you actually read the story you'd see that a salesperson took a photo of her and posted it on twitter without her permission, and that's when she complained. I think it's totally reasonable that a salesperson at an upscale department store would know better than to do that.

Huh? Beyonce is involved in a ton of charities and used her tour to promote Goodwill.

Somehow we as a nation will survive this ordeal. Though I must admit things are looking mighty bleak right now.

That's very true. And that is a frustrating fact about being a woman and working.