Ugh

People are starting to discuss circumcision on one of my due date boards, and it just makes me shudder.  I’ve long felt that circumcision is wrong, etc, but now that I’m carrying this little fellow (we still presume that one of them is a fellow) I just can’t imagine allowing him to be hurt in [...]

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Public Service Announcement

The odds of a boy *ever* needing to be circumcised for medical reasons are just 1%.
Conversely, circumcision guarantees a child:

100% risk of losing “the most sensitive parts of the penis” LINK
71% risk of penile adhesions LINK
10% risk of meatal stenosis LINK
1% risk of circumcision revision LINK

…and that’s to say nothing of immediate surgical risks including, but not limited [...]

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I Wrote Me A Letter

Yep, I’m waxing poetic on keeping boys intact. For those that don’t know, my mother is a pediatrician in a rural, high-circ-rate county. She’s held for some time that circ is just fine, because it’s the family’s “culture” to do so. So I finally decided to write her a letter.
FYI: [...]

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Circumcision: It’s Wrong

I haven’t posted anything on this in awhile, partially because, well, I’m adopting a girl, so it hasn’t come up, and partially because I’ve had quite a few other things to talk about.
The bottom line is this: It is wrong to circumcise your infant. Period. A healthy baby does not need surgery. [...]

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Crab-a-palooza

Oh boy.  Where to even start.
1) I received an email today from someone using my local INS office that received her I-171H in 4 weeks precisely.  4 weeks!!!!  WTF!?!?!?!!!  Why am I still waiting 8.5 weeks later, then?  If I don’t have an I-171H in my f-ing mailbox when I get to my f-ing house [...]

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Blogging for GLBT Families Day

This is just a post to say that I absolutely adore all of my two-mama-family friends, and I vote, dammit!  Others can be eloquent, but the bottom line is that the state has no business telling any adult which other adult* he or she can marry, and has no business withholding the benefits of marriage from loving [...]

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Bee Wise, Don’t Circumcise!

I could talk for hours on this topic – but the kernel of the thing is this: It is the height of parental arrogance to decide, as your first major act as a parent, that your healthy baby boy is defective, and needs to be “fixed.” Further, in making this decision, you have chosen to [...]

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Hey Stormy, Kiss My Ass!

Hi all,
Back from vacation, which was alternately great fun and kinda sad – am having some continued baggage from the chemical pgs/m/c’s/whatever you want to call them. But I’m better every day, so that’s good.
The real point of this post (other than to inform my loyal readership of two Tibetan sherpas and a Bedouin in [...]

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Just Another Freaky Earth Mama

I love this cartoon – this mama rocks!
Hathor the CowGoddess

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Warning, This Will Offend You

Okay, junior campers, time to tune in. This very well may offend you, and if it does, well, frankly, I just don’t give a damn. I’m hot, tired and PMS-y, so you can just take it and deal with it. Quit reading now if you’re going to whine about how I’m unfair, or judgmental, or [...]

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