Moms of Boys

CCwithkids

So DS (7 y/o) just learned that not all boys are circumcised (he is) and he asked me how many other boys are and aren't.  I honestly did't know the answer.  I asked DH and he said that white boys are and hispanic and aisan boys aren't and black boy are sometimes.  Anyone know anything about this?

[Poll]

ghm

Ummmmm

summerbrideDC

Your DH's answer? Asinine. 

StarryNight39

Is your husband 12? I suggest you do some research so you can give your son correct information.

CCwithkids

No he is not 12, but his answer does seem overly simplistic.

Mominator

CCwithkids:

No he is not 12, but his answer does seem overly simplistic.

Your husband is a moron and you aren't much better. 

J&A2008

What?

summerbrideDC

"simplistic" isn't how I'd put it.  totally ignorant and bordering on offensive would be more like it, but okay.

CCwithkids

Mominator:

CCwithkids:

No he is not 12, but his answer does seem overly simplistic.

Your husband is a moron and you aren't much better. 

I really don't see the need to resort to personal insults.

DevonPow

WTF??

ghm

summerbrideDC:

"simplistic" isn't how I'd put it.  totally ignorant and bordering on offensive would be more like it, but okay.

Word. The racial stereotyping in this post...

 

She totally forgot to insult the jews, though. The religious insults could be saved for another post, I guess. 

summerbrideDC

ghm:

summerbrideDC:

"simplistic" isn't how I'd put it.  totally ignorant and bordering on offensive would be more like it, but okay.

Word. The racial stereotyping in this post...

 

She totally forgot to insult the jews, though. The religious insults could be saved for another post, I guess. 

At least if she'd said that Jews typically ARE circumcised, she'd least she'd have gotten something correct. LOL

ghm

Seriously, if she had come at this from another angle--because I'm sure that there are trends among certain races--it may not have been so bad. But "my husband says the asians aren't, the mexicans aren't, the blacks sometimes are, and the whites always are." It was just so ignorant sounding. 

Mominator

CCwithkids:

Mominator:

CCwithkids:

No he is not 12, but his answer does seem overly simplistic.

Your husband is a moron and you aren't much better. 

I really don't see the need to resort to personal insults.

Sorry. Uneducated. Ignorant. Racist........is that better?

CCwithkids

Ok, I didn't mean for this to sound racist.  But does it differ across cultures and races?  That should be the question.

shopgirl78

I have seen this polled twice:

85% on parenting ARE

75% on 12-24 moths ARE

Mine is a yes 

 

praline

CCwithkids:

Ok, I didn't mean for this to sound racist.  But does it differ across cultures and races?  That should be the question.

It does.  So, your DH's answer was kind of inaccurate, but he's right that different groups of people have different traditions of circumcising or not circumcising so I'm not sure why people are jumping all over you so much.  I would just say some people have cultural or religious reasons for circumcising and other people don't.  You could say it's a tradition in your family and leave it at that.

 But generally Muslims and Jews circumcise.  I think most of Western Europe does not, outside of Great Britain.  I actually thought most African American men were not circumcised.  Don't really know about rates in Africa, Asia, or South America.

lsufan

WTF?  No way did anyone's husband say this.  I'm going with MUD.

amiamish

lsufan:

WTF?  No way did anyone's husband say this.  I'm going with MUD.

I wouldn't say MUD, I know some aholes who think this way (the stereotypes) and it's mostly due to being uneducated and ignorant. However, I try to help them, they just don't care to be taught.

jettagurl

CCwithkids:

Ok, I didn't mean for this to sound racist.  But does it differ across cultures and races?  That should be the question.

But how would a yes/no poll answer that? You're assuming everyone here is Caucasian?  

How about just telling him the difference, and that families decide the right decision for their son? 

Or telling him it's not polite to be checking out out boys' penises in the restroom?

 

J&A2008

jettagurl:

Or telling him it's not polite to be checking out out boys' penises in the restroom?

 

This got a great chuckle.

samanthony

I have no words.