"Intactivist" pro-foreskin weirdos set to protest Oprah

Seriously, if your life has reached the stage where you have nothing better to do than obsess about foreskins, you've taken some pretty bad turns along the path.

These people truly are strange...

Off with their heads! American Academy of Pediatrics gives thumbs up to male circumcision

The American Academy of Pediatrics announced that the benefits of male circumcision outweighs the risks.

"Intactivists" at Toronto's 2012 Pride parade

There has been mounting scientific evidence to support circumcision for years.

This news will undoubtedly infuriate one of the strangest collections of individuals on the planet, who describe themselves with a pun about their being activists who want to keep male penises intact.

These "intactivists" are obsessed with foreskins.Some of them are people with a sad psychological condition that leads them to blame all their social and emotional problems on having had their foreskin removed in infancy.  Some go so far as to try to use bizarre, painful methods to restore their foreskin as adults.

Others are just thoroughly obsessed with foreskins for reasons only they can know. (I suppose I could know too if I bothered to find out, but really, who cares?)

They aren't bad people, these intactivists, they're just nuts, and this recent announcement is most certainly going to rub those nuts the wrong way.

The Gay community deserves better than an annual festival of depravity

The joie de vivre there should have been more of in Pride 2012

Characterized as the civil rights issue of our generation,  the struggle for Gay rights in Canada is a battle that has been won. Now the main threat against homosexual status in this country is the descent into unintended self-parody. 

Homosexuality has moved from being treated as a degenerate crime to a form of mental illness to a natural facet of human behavior within the span of a hundred years. That, of course, is in advanced western societies. Though a constant embarrassment to western cultural relativists, it remains that in parts of the Caribbean and Africa, Gays still face legal sanctions and in almost every Muslim country they are subject to severest forms of state-sanctioned persecution. 

But here, in Canada, in 2012, Gays have achieved full equality under the law. That and the many contributions that members of Canada's Gay community have made to every segment of our society are worth celebrating. 

Like any other community, Gays represent a variety of individuals with a countless range of perspectives, and as is the goal of other civil rights fights, the outcome should be the right to be treated like everyone else. 

Queers Against Israeli Apartheid?
Next year,
consider joining Queers Against Tim Hortons

Pride, at least in Toronto, isn't about equality. It's about special interests hijacking a movement. At the Pride parade last Sunday, to be sure, there were groups from banks, theatre shows, unions, and a variety of credible organizations.

But there were also groups of depraved sado-masochists wearing nothing but the piercings in their genitalia or the occasional leather mask making them look like "the gimp" from Pulp Fiction. There were lunatic "intactivist" anti-circumcision fanatics whose appearance  suggested a recent escape from a mental institution,  a "polyamoury" group whose members were hideous-looking enough to discourage sexual relationships of any sort, and that is to say nothing of the imbecilic political losers like the perennial outcasts of Queers Against Israeli Apartheid, the NDP Socialist Caucus, Canada's Maoists, and the Communist Party of Canada. None of these parasitical misfits are representative of the achievements of Canada's Gay community. What they accomplish is to debase what should be a celebration of a great victory of rights into a disgraceful display of narcissism and self-indulgence, arming homophobes with more of the stereotypes that the Gay community has been trying to overcome for half a century. 

Oh, great! Someone brought an 11 year old girl (in pink)
to spend time with some naked perverts.
Yup..those Intactivists are complete sane!

The lesson here is obvious. It's time for the real Gay community to take back its Pride. The festival is run by a self-interested clique with the mentality of spoiled adolescents. The St. Patrick's Day Parade doesn't feature a contingent of nude Irish porn stars acting out sex scenes, or Irish Maoists, or a group of "Irish against Jews."  It's time for Toronto's Pride to grow up and own the confidence to stop giving the lunatic fringe a claim on the mainstream in what is supposed to be a celebration of Gay culture.

The Gay community in Canada has so much to be proud of, from athletes like Mark Tewksbury, to wonderful authors like Timothy Findley and musicians like kd lang, and politicians like Ian Scott and Scott Brison, social activists like Martin Gladstone, journalists like Sue Ann Levy and on and on. As it stands, Toronto's festival doesn't show Gay pride so much as the worst aspects of Gay society. Being at Pride this year I was reminded of the old joke: "what sort of people go to nudist colonies?..The sort of people who shouldn't go to nudist colonies."

Is this what the Gay community wants to be known as being "proud" of?

Gays have every right to be proud, but for that pride to reach its true potential,  the next fight for Gay rights  may have to be within the Gay community itself. 

More pics of what Pride shouldn't be here and here.






All photos in this post © 2012 Eye on a Crazy Planet

Foreskin Man whithered by female Superior Court Judge and Captain Israel

San Francisco Superior Court Judge Loretta Giorgi ruled on July 27th that a proposed ballot measure to ban circumcision must be withdrawn, calling it "expressly preempted" by state law.

The proposition attracted a great deal of controversy, since it potentially infringed on religious freedom and was meant to bar a practice widely considered as a prophylactic benefit for male sexual health.

According to the San Francisco Chronicle, Judge Giorgi said the California Business and Professions Code prohibits local regulation of medical procedures. She goes on to write that it "serves no legitimate purpose" for an illegal measure to remain on the ballot and ordered elections chief John Arntz to remove it.

The campaign against circumcision was led by a very strange group of foreskin advocates who refer to themselves as "intactivists." I learned the hard way (no pun) that they get upset when you call them dickheads.

The campaign against circumcision descended into creepy bigotry, when one of its advocates created an anti-Semitic comic book called Foreskin Man, that was evocative of Nazi-era anti-Jewish propaganda.

On the other side, a comic hero called Captain Israel has been recruited to combat Foreskin Man, and in the ensuing battle, appears to have left the circumcision opponent flacid.

The anti-circumcision ballot may have been toppled, but its removal has given newspaper  headlines writers something to play with.

They include:



San Francisco Hippies lose grip on penis protection vote

San Francisco Circumcision ban wil be cut short

California judge chops circumcision ban from ballot