health parenthood people suck

I love you, Slate, but sometimes you publish some dumb ish

Like this screed about the “fringe” element of our society known as intactivists and how they have taken over the internet to the degree that you can’t find good pro-circ science online anymore without doing some digging.

Are you kidding me?

Lumping people who don’t see a need for compulsory infant circumcision in with people who are anti-vax? Dude. Just … no.

And this:

To intactivists, mutilation is mutilation; what does it matter if it’s for the greater good?

Sorry, is that supposed to read like parody? I can’t even tell anymore.

So here’s a thought: If circumcision is so good for men, then let men decide for themselves when to get it done. No need to decide for your brand new baby boy that he needs to get that chop made well before the time when that chop would help him avoid getting STDs, right? Let that boy grow up and then decide when it’s a good time to get the knife near his wang.