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It's the dunk tank.

This is where you come to post big-brained hot takes by chuds, libs, or even fellow leftists, and tear them to itty-bitty pieces with precision dunkstrikes.

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[–] chickentendrils@hexbear.net 41 points 2 years ago (1 children)

We're missing context here, for all we know this went down at Wendy's last week.

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago

Like that scene from Planet Terror

[–] kristina@hexbear.net 41 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Trans women in America: agony-deep

Also not reading the thread beyond this, that's enough psychic pain for me today thanks. Oh and this guy should be thrown in a pit

[–] ButtBidet@hexbear.net 41 points 2 years ago (8 children)

I am literally sorry that the MRA fuckheads are trying to take over the anti-circumcusion movement. I have it out with them and their misogynist takes all the fucking time.

That said, don't circumcise your unconsenting infant boy. Wait for him to be old enough to make his own decision. My fucking doctor cut too tight and I just can't orgasm during sex. This is a lot more common than people realise.

[–] PaX@hexbear.net 28 points 2 years ago (1 children)

spoiler

This is a lot more common than people realise.

I am extremely reluctant/embarrassed to talk about this for some reason even on this site, maybe because of the association with these fucking MRA people, but yeah it bothers me a lot too. It's not just a "nothing" surgery (can't find better words rn), it has very real consequences and it's yet another permanent mark left on me by this omnicidal culture (Amerikkka). I have worse things to worry about these days but I still kinda wish I didn't click on this post to be reminded.

But again, fuck this misogynist pieces of shit using this practice as a way to further their reactionary politics.

I don't know why I'm writing this. I guess I just needed to put it out there. You have now finished reading my most cringe post.

[–] ButtBidet@hexbear.net 15 points 2 years ago

Nah, I get you. People are very resistant to talk about their dicks in public, criticise decisions their parents made, and go against the Amerikkkan consensus.

Since the majority of non religious circumcision is happening in middle Amerika, much of the response is gonna be reactionary af. The anti cutting response from other countries and parts of the US on the coast is at least pretty liberal. All I ask of non supporters is that they realise this.

I get that being a white dude gives me a lot of privilege. I'm glad that I have a roof over my head and food to eat. I get that sex isn't everything, but it would be nice to enjoy it.

[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 23 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Pro child circumcision people complain about how it’s painful to get when you’re older lol. Tough shit. If a grown ass man can sit through piercings and tattoos then surely he can go get some dick skin removed

I-I-IT’S DI-DIFFER-

I don’t care.

[–] kristina@hexbear.net 16 points 2 years ago

if trans women can handle their genitals being origami'd into a vagina, men can handle circumcision in adulthood

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[–] silent_water@hexbear.net 32 points 2 years ago (1 children)

hmm I tried dunking but this guy might not be smart enough for that even to be fun. like if they can't even process that you just compared them to a troglodyte, what's left to do?

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 27 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] silent_water@hexbear.net 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm not mad enough anymore. I knew this guy was short a couple of crayons from the OP but now I just feel mean.

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 13 points 2 years ago

Then best to go on with your day

We cannot rescue everyone from their benighted ignorance

[–] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 8 points 2 years ago

Classic. Can't ever go wrong with that

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 23 points 2 years ago

Women and children tend to die more when there's a war on. You really think the non-adult-male population of Baghdad had a great time the day the city fell to the fucking Mongols? Hint: they didn't.

Men have legit issues. I am a man. I have issues. I am willing to believe a man when he tells me he's going through some shit. But fuck every MRA type that pulls this disingenuous bullshit about "the draft." Treating life like some kind of misery Olympics pissing contest is yet another symptom of the toxic masculinity bullshit that's bad for everyone.

[–] joaomarrom@hexbear.net 22 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

reddit and being weird about male circumcision

name a more iconic duo

edit: shit what have I done

[–] JohnBrownNote@hexbear.net 29 points 2 years ago (3 children)

claiming to care about human rights but dismissing the harms of infant circumcision because it's so normalized?

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Read the room, obviously child mutilation is wrong but comparing it to SA is some real MRA brainworms

[–] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 27 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I hate how a legitimate grievance has been hijacked by misogynist far-right assholes

[–] ButtBidet@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago

Ya they're fucking toxic and I deal with them all the time in the anti-circ movement.

[–] HumanBehaviorByBjork@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

the reason it can't find wider support is that it is in practice not detrimental to most circumcised peoples' quality of life. as an issue it finds a home in masculinist grievance politics because it serves as the perfect metaphor for their sense that they have been permanently victimized and unprotected since birth.

[–] ButtBidet@hexbear.net 22 points 2 years ago

Surveys show that ten percent of adults regret that it was done to them as a kid, and the number is getting bigger as people learn more about it. To me there's no question: don't do aesthetic surgery on unconsenting babies.

[–] JohnBrownNote@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

in the screenshot he's talking about FGM.

if anything he's erasing SA

[–] Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

in the screenshot he's talking about FGM.

I don't think so?

His entire account history seems to be so deeply misogynistic, that if anything he'd probably be pro-fgm just to make womens lifes worse

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[–] silent_water@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

omg hexbear circumcision is not worse than SA. please be normal.

[–] JohnBrownNote@hexbear.net 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

whoa wait who said anything about "worse"? It's a violation of bodily autonomy and that should be sufficient

[–] silent_water@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

read the OP! it's literally the subject of this thread!

[–] JohnBrownNote@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

he's doing racism, saying he had his genitals mutilated which is something dirty muslims do but doesn't happen in "the west" so much

[–] silent_water@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago (5 children)

he literally - in those exact words - said it's worse than

CW: SArape

and that it's a greater harm than western women know. he's doing a lot more than being racist.

and if you click into the thread, you'd see that he's downplaying SA to the point that he said it's worse to break a leg.

seriously dude read the OP. I'm not talking about subtext. you've failed to read the actual text.

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[–] HumanBehaviorByBjork@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

did you read the screenshotted comment

[–] JohnBrownNote@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago

yeah they're doing racism.

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 20 points 2 years ago

When you're technically literally correct and could maybe treat how that seems to make you feel to maybe relate to women in some small way but you post this.

[–] Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 17 points 2 years ago

What in the god damned fuck did I just read

[–] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 16 points 2 years ago

They need to go straight to the barbara-pit

[–] viva_la_juche@hexbear.net 15 points 2 years ago

Are you … GonnaRainDown on Reddit?

[–] Raebxeh@hexbear.net 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I resent that I understand that the dog whistle is about Muslims. My brain is broken.

[–] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago

I reread it and got it now. Damn.

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