Woman reports on intactivist movie progress

Submitted by Matt on Tue, 2013-06-11 13:49

Article here. Excerpt:

'When you grow up with the reality that your ancestors were persecuted in just about every place in which they tried to settle, and found to be on the the wrong side of the law just a tad too often, you come to appreciate that cultural embrace and legal status are weak litmus tests for determining whether someone or something is good or ethical. ...
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Today, I am working to complete my first documentary, “American Secret: The Circumcision Agenda.” The film explores why circumcision became so popular in the U.S., as well as the cultural and economic incentives that perpetuate its practice. ...
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At first my mom was nervous about the prospect of any Jewish ritual becoming criminalized. My sister was kind of eye-rolly, and had a "circumcised men enjoy sex” and “this is not a pressing issue" attitude. To his credit, my dad pretty much agreed that circumcision is an antiquated blood ritual.
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Francelle Wax, 32, has overseen production coordination on political media campaigns and for historical documentaries. She has traveled four continents and lived in London, Washington, DC, Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India, and Berkeley, California. "American Secret: The Circumcision Agenda" is her first film.'

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A "blood ritual" not unique to Judaism. It's found in Islam and other religions and the secular parts of societies also. Doctors who perform circumcisions may not be ritualizing it but are nonetheless rationalizing it to capitalize off it.

Religious or not, there always seems to be some excuse ppl come up with to cut off parts of boys' genitalia. To say it's a pathology in societies that condone it or encourage it is at once accurate but at the same time, an oversimplification. If it were quite that simple, it'd be a bit more obvious to rational people just how irrational the practice is. The whole thing is rooted in centuries-old cognitive dissonance. It's not going to be easy to see real change effected even among non-religious groups of people who are still living in a hypnotic fog around this topic, but progress is inevitable. Circumcision's days are numbered. Exactly what the number is, dunno. But it's on the way out.

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Submitted by Matt on Tue, 2013-06-11 13:58