Alan Cumming’s fight against circumcision

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'Alan Cumming [link added] wants to tell you about his penis. He wants it to be a shining example to the world. In a candid interview with Drew Grant this week in the New York Observer, the 49-year-old Scottish actor reveals his strong opinions on “Girls,” naughty cellphone pictures, and, most controversially, circumcision. Or as he puts it, “genital mutilation.”

“There’s a double-standard, which is that we condemn the people who cut off girls’ clitorises, but when it happens to boys,” Cumming says. “I mean, it is the most sensitive part of their bodies, it has loads of nerve endings, and it can go horribly wrong. I’m speaking out against it … I’m just so suspicious of the medical industry, which just flings pills at people to ensure everyone is reliant on things. ‘Here are some pills, Mommy. Take them, and we’ll take your baby away and hack its thing off, and then we’ll bill you for that too.’”

This isn’t the first time Cumming has spoken strongly about the practice. Two years ago, he posted on his blog a piece he said the Wall Street Journal commissioned and then pulled, a story in which he proudly declared, “I, unlike the vast majority of American males, have not been genitally mutilated. I have a foreskin. I am intact.” After describing his own penis in pretty frank detail, Cumming went on to explain his affiliations with the organizations Intact America and Norm-UK, and declare, “When I say that we have stopped most of the other barbaric practices described in the Bible so why are we so keen to continue this one, nobody really wants to listen.”'

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But I thought he was gay.

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... he's bi, or that's what the entry says he's said.

But gay, straight, bi, whatever, makes no difference. He is indeed right that foreskinning babies is wrong. Personally, I don't care one way or another if someone's gay/bi/straight/etc., black, white, Asian, Mexica, etc., male or female. All that matters to me is, to paraphrase MLK Jr., the content of their character.

I really wish MLK Jr. had not been assassinated. I'd really like to know how things'd be today if that hadn't happened. Would he be an MRA by now? I imagine it's possible. But maybe if he hadn't been assassinated, there'd be no need for an MRM. Possibly he may have shared enough common sense around the ideas of equality and decency toward one another that the feminist establishment wouldn't've gone the direction it has.

But it's all academic now.

Sorry, I'm off-topic a bit. Maybe I just get sentimental when it gets late. :)

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