Jews Increasingly Questioning Circumcision Ritual

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Two things that annoy the hell out of me:

-Militant anti-circumcision people that are so common on the internet and so rare in reality.
-People doing things like this just because of "tradition" and idiotic bulls[inks] like that.

So in this case good. Also shows that convincing people not to do circumcision if you don't like it is better done through other methods than frothing screaming and absurd comparisons to genital mutilation.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

The Jewish understanding of something that God told them to do in Genesis really shouldn't be reduced to '"tradition" and idiotic bulls[inks] like that'. It's not the same as the Irish Catholicism thing, it's really not.

It is if the Jews in question don't really practice any other aspects of Judaism and don't keep kosher/observe the Sabbath/holy days, etc. Like the vast majority of American ethnic Jews.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

I'm a Moderate Hero on this issue. Being attacked for saying that I don't care about being circumcised and that I don't feel "mutilated" doesn't exactly endear me to the other side. Might I also add the idiocy of the radical feminist on DU who tried to argue using some BS psuedo-science crap that circumcision makes men more likely to rape.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

My grandfather had to be circumcised in his 40s because of an infection he developed. Apparently he was bedridden for a week in severe pain. Getting it done as a baby sounds easier than having to deal with that.