Literally nobody here is disagreeing with the point that circumcising babies’ penises is problematic at best, since babies are incapable of giving consent. What people are disagreeing with is your insistence that there is no difference between circumcising a penis and “FGM,” a term that includes clitoridectomy, not…

I’m looking.

No one has tried to make circumcision no big deal. No one at all. You are the one jumping down people’s throats for saying its not the same as FGM, and it isn’t. Circumcision is wrong, I was heartbroken when my nephews had it done to them. Their fathers insisted. Their fathers. But FGM is a crime committed against…

Nah. You were a male when that happened. You saying it’s effectively FGM shows that you know it’s not.

I haven’t seen any comment saying circumcision is “no big deal.” I’ve seen comments saying they aren’t the same, which they aren’t. They are radically different medical procedures with drastically different intentions and end results. The only people being silenced are the poor girls who undergo this procedure because…

No. I realize we are all limited to our lived experience, but your experience here is not analogous with what this doctor did or what people commonly refer to as FGM.

Nowhere did this article even bring up circumcision. Why is it so hard to stay on topic when it’s about an atrocity that’s done to women’s sexual organs? Why is it always, “We must discuss the penis first!”

Because as a country we looked at what happened at Sandy Hook and decided we were ok with it.

If it was the right decision then he should have gone before Congress and made them do their Constitutional job and declare war, a responsibility they’ve been abdicating since Gulf of Tonkin. And if he really wanted to punish Syria and Assad for using chemical weapons, he shouldn’t have told Putin, who took that…

The guy is literally committing genocide and with some pretty scary weapons to do it.

Watching Rachel fucking Maddow, of all people, applaud the airstrikes last night was fucking appalling.

I think this is pretty spot-on and is something I’ve been saying to folks for years now. It really hit home to me in the closing weeks of the 2012 election during the peak of the “unskew the polls” phenomenon. The rubes were eating this shit up as usual, but then it became obvious that plenty of actual power players…

Pro tip from a woman: If you want to “respect your wife,” then don’t cheat on her, or flirt with other women, or be a prop in an administration that is an international embarrassment. None of that precludes you from have a normal business relationship with other women, which often includes eating. You know, the thing…

I’m a high school English teacher, and I plan to punch one of my colleagues in his throat when he makes his first condescending or misogynistic (or both) comment.

As Pareene alludes to, there are people (inside the media and out of it) for whom the flag draped coffin is a religious fetish object. American Holiness lives in that casket, and how dare you critique it.

As a vet myself this is something everyone needs to understand: sometimes American Soldiers die for no good reason. They die in accidents, in blue-on-blue attacks, from improper medical care, in stupid wars, in badly planned missions. It happens. “Soldiers have died” is not a reason to keep fighting in and of itself.

I refused to watch the speech, because obviously, but when I saw the headlines on NY1 this morning with the “press” pivoting to say he was “Presidential” and didn’t pee on any of the carpets, my reaction was, ‘here we go...’

Chris Cilizza is consistently and dangerously moronic. But “Donald Trump understood the applause for Carryn Owens was a moment. And he let it be.” is simply wrong.

Not for me. If anything the workforce has only pushed me to the left. That will happen when you realize your CEO is incompetent, but still makes 400x as much money as you do because he has nice hair.

I love the idea that if we tax billionaires we will lose their largesse. We would cut off the pearls that dribble from their lips down upon us mere mortals. Wither the art museums? Wither the ice rinks?