Mother Protests Circumcision By Pretending To Pierce Her Baby’s Cheek

I never really realized there was so much debate over circumcision. I’ll admit, I’ve never really given it much thought. The majority of doctors will tell you it’s generally hygienic, reduces the change of infection and STDs and so on. Basically, it has medical benefits.

Like Mockarena pointed out a few years ago, circumcision is the new vaccine debate. It transcends ideological political barriers. People are all over the map, and those opposed to it are super opposed. They’re basically activists.

Case in point.

Ohio mother Enedina Vance is anti-circumcision, and to make her point, she “pierced” her baby’s cheek and posted a picture of it on social media. Of course, she didn’t actually pierce her baby’s cheek. It was photoshopped, but some people didn’t know that.

She wrote:

So I got the baby girl’s dimple pierced!! 😲😲😍😍💗💗
It looks so cute, right?!! I just know she’s gonna love it!! She’ll thank me when she’s older lol If she decides she doesn’t like it, she can just take it out, no big deal 😂😂
I’m the parent, she is MY CHILD, I will do whatever I want!! I make all of her decisions until she’s 18, I made her, I own her!! I don’t need anyone’s permission, I think it’s better, cuter, & I prefer her to have her dimple pierced. Its NOT abuse!! If it was, it would be illegal, but it’s not. People pierce their babies everyday, this is no different 😂😂
MY BABY, MY CHOICE!! PARENT’S CHOICE, PARENT’S RIGHTS!! Don’t judge my parenting, we all raise our kids differently, it’s none of your business anyway!!

See what she’s trying to do here? She knew people would get upset, because WHY ON EARTH would you pierce your baby’s cheek? Well why, Enedina wonders, are those same people not outraged over circumcision? She wrote a follow up post, which reads in part:

I seriously can not believe how many people missed that this was purely satirical, I actually used the hashtag #sarcasm lol yet people were still threatening to beat me to death, call child protective services, & take away my children lol I even explained within the comments that this was fake, that I edited the photo, & that I’m actually an intactivist & someone responded with “well I know what I saw!” She was referring back to the doctored photo after I had just told her it was fake lol yeah, seriously!!

 

In a way, I’m glad people responded the way they did. I didn’t take any of their comments, anger, or hate to heart. They were, in their own way, try to protect my baby. However, I’m disappointed that it didn’t really go much further than that. Once they were made aware of what my post was actually about, they just said oh & went on their way. Others dismissed the connection between the dimple piercing & genital cutting & felt it necessary to attempt to explain why they cut their child. Its ironic that they were ready to beat me to death over my excuses for piercing my baby, but then they used the same EXACT excuse to justify cutting their baby lol

 

Why s o hypocritical?? How is it so triggering, so enraging to see my baby with a pierced dimple, but actually knowing a baby is being strapped down & forcibly having his most sensitive & innervative portion of his penis amputated, seems perfectly ok?? How can society threaten death over one, but encourage & support the other? Piercing is bad, but cutting is accepted as the norm?

 

Hypocrisy, that’s what that is. Sexism. Superstition. Fear. People would rather continue to inflict an unnecessary & irreversible ritual onto their defenseless infant, than to have to admit that they don’t know. They don’t know why it’s done, if it has to be done, what the functions of that body part are, or what happens if they were to just leave it alone! So the cycle continues, all because parents are too afraid or to proud to admit that they just don’t know. Education is key & the truth is, genital cutting is completely unnecessary. Its [sic] NOT cleaner, not healthier, & definitely does not look better!! But most importantly, it is NOT your body to alter or modify for aesthetic purposes.

Here’s her full post:

I just don’t think you can compare a “dimple piercing”– which is purely cosmetic– to circumcision, which actually has a purpose beyond aesthetics.

Thoughts?

h/t The Blaze