There are memes like "when you have to prove that you're jewish" or crass jokes about people standing out due to their lack of foreskin, but i remember hearing that a huge swathes of American men are circumcised - it's like 49%. Jesus.

If literally half of every men are circumcised, why is it even a remarkable topic to Americans? How did it become such a meme?

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[–] 47 points 2 days ago (7 children)

The rate of circumcision has been dropping in large part due to the millennial generation refusing to do so to our own children.

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  • [–] 45 points 2 days ago (5 children)

    Millennials just out here casually making the world a slightly less horrible place for people to grow up in, in very measurable statistics that only they have direct control of, and that unambiguously cannot be attributed to any other generation, despite getting relentlessly manipulated, economically rugpulled and politically sabotaged their entire lives.

    Fucking millennials are so obnoxious, amirite? lol avocado toast or whatever! /s

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  • [–] 15 points 2 days ago

    We're stuck being the maintenance team for the boomers as they actively shit themselves but wont get out of the way of progress, or even the normal progression of life.

    We're trapped in the job market right as they rugpull the whole fucking thing.

    I feel for genz. Their attitude to work is right on the money.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 days ago*

    Millennial here, from an extremely Protestant Christian conservative family, fighting the good fight. I vow to continue not mutilating my children’s genitalia for as many as I can afford to have.

    Just kidding. We can’t afford any more.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago

    That's so encouraging, honestly. At times I've worried that maybe I was wrong not to circumcise my son.

    I felt so strongly about it when he was born but as he grows up I care more about him having a positive body image than fulfilling my own philosophical position. I'm glad to hear that he won't be the odd man out, so to speak.

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