Great puns aside, the evidence is extremely "clear cut" in Africa. The WHO and MSF (who I worked for when I was in Africa) recommended circumcision as a preventative measure for anyone high risk areas.

How was male circumcision to stop males touching themselves? It was originally something started out of necessity to prevent disease and eventually became part of Jewish law as a covenant. It started out as a healthcare measure, not a puritanical one.

I know this is sort of off topic but you cannot compare female circumcision to male... Female circumcision serves no purpose other than torture and control while male circumcision saves thousands of lives a year in parts of the world where water is not a readily available cleaning option.

Wikipedia is not just a bunch of guys sitting in a room updating the site... It's an open community like reddit (which while still has more men has a higher ratio of women). The idea of "brogrammers" making it difficult for women to enter the world of programming and tech is a completely valid one but it has nothing…

I appreciate the help and I believe I sort of brought this on my self in my attempts to be humorous. To my girlfriend and I it is more a funny situation as she is obsessed with our dog and to me children/dog are interchangeable (I hope that does not make people hate me as well!).

First off, I want to be clear that in no way was I being disdainful in my words. My observation of the usage of "identity" may have overtly forceful but that is mostly because I like to try to make clear the difference between "identity" and "individuality". I am not disdainful of someone who believes they need to…

Your take on my response is clouded with your own preconceptions and experiences. You may try to infer from my words some sort of stereotypical male belief but those are your own conclusions, not my beliefs.

lol, you may have a degree in psychology but I have multiple science degrees and I can assure you that having a child IS as close as we currently can get to cloning a stable human being.

If you read my responses to FayeBlanks you would see that was my point... People seem to think that jealously solely implies that you are dissatisfied with your own life. It usually does not, and only does if you somehow think that by criticizing someone elses life choices you can somehow feel more secure in your…

This will probably be long, I find the topic fascinating.

I assumed you were baiting me, hence my answer. If you were not, please forgive me. I find that online (as in real life I suppose) when someone in their mind has already identified the correct answer before the question, the answer just paves the way for a pseudo-intellectual complication of something so simplistic.

Thank you, I appreciate it... Good luck with your degree and I hope that you kick ass in whatever end up doing!

I can point you to the definition and maybe look up some case studies for you but if you need detailed help I would be more than happy to do proper research... I enjoy that.

You are correct, I meant about women who react this way to friends who post their children ad nauseum on Facebook. Making generalizations is not a gender exclusive.

Maybe I used too strong a word, "jealous" has a connotation of feeling and sounding like a definite. She rolls her eyes at it because she can't empathize with it, she thinks its corny that they do this. She would not (as she admits) feel like this if she had a child, just like a person plastering their dog on…

That is a very illogical response, jealously and envy are simply about desiring something that yo do not have. It has nothing to do with whether or not you can or cannot acquire it. Jealousy is also not a constant emotion, an overriding mental state. It comes and goes, people can be happy with their life and at…

This I don't understand, our identities are shaped by those around us and our interactions with them. We are products of our environment and when people become a parent they transfer themselves into their child. That child becomes an extension of themselves, their immortality assured. When their child is…

It could have to do with using multiple computers, but that makes little sense as well. It's more than likely related to your specific account setting. Aside from IP addresses originating in certain countries Facebook does not care about your origin IP, IP addresses change daily for most users.

lol, thanks Dr Freud... Overstating a simple and common complaint to an ordinary situation makes it appear you are trying way to hard to ascribe logic and reason to what is usually an emotional response.

It seems like mostly a jealousy thing... My girlfriend goes through phases of finding it cute, annoying, angering and adorable. She plasters our dog all over facebook and loves when others do the same, but it is a 50/50 on whether she will roll her eyes when a child is posted.