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Might screw around & tweet about circumcision to summon the haters & feel something
We call it "brit milah." Brit means covenant, alliance, relationship.
We circumcise on the 8th day after birth, that is barring exceptional circumstances (eh eh see what i did there).
The first 7 days of creation everything is defined by God, the 8th day is when
We circumcise on the 8th day after birth, that is barring exceptional circumstances (eh eh see what i did there).
The first 7 days of creation everything is defined by God, the 8th day is when
humanity begins the work of feeding forward human consciousness - the consciousness of the earth - into the development of the earth.
The 8th day is when we are initiated as active co-creators. This is when we initiate our boys qua co-creators.
Okay, but about girls?
The 8th day is when we are initiated as active co-creators. This is when we initiate our boys qua co-creators.
Okay, but about girls?
Girls don't need circumcision. (Don't ask me to defend all forms of "circumcision" in the name of religious freedom because the forms are not equal. Female genital mutilation is evil.
Btw the anatomical homology in males of mutilating the external portion of the female's clitoris is cutting off the head of the penis. That is not what we do. That would be mutilation.)
If girls don't need circumcision, but boys do, what's wrong with boys?
Well, you might have noticed we have issues.
Well, you might have noticed we have issues.
Digression: the phallus symbol is about extension of the individual into the world, about agency, about becoming active in the world (see above about 8th day).
The phallus isn't about the penis. The penis is about the phallus.
The phallus isn't about the penis. The penis is about the phallus.
When I ran in radical feminist circles, there was playful speculation about how architecture might have developed differently if industrialization had occurred in a matriarchy. It's a good thought experiment. Still there are physical factors that don't change.
Circular buildings use land inefficiently & building up is an efficient way of packing more onto the same land. Okay, maybe those kinds of efficiency wouldn't be valued, but if we're assuming industrialization, *maybe* at some point those things *need* to be valued...
What I'm suggesting is that, in a sense, the phallic is a feature of nature. Not all organisms reproduce sexually, but an amazing variety do, and in general one half is going to have small, highly mobile gametes that need to be *projected*. Even when the genetics of sex work
differently, like in birds, small, mobile gametes that need to be projected often get phallic, projecting structures. In some birds, in flowers, &c.
Anyway, the phallic is problematic. Think, lest the human reach out his hand, take from the tree, eat the fruit, &c. As soon as you can extend & project yourself into the world beyond you, you have problems with doing things mechanically, manipulation, control, power.
The foreskin is a cover, protection, a defense mechanism. Removing it is about becoming vulnerable.
Brit milah is about refusing to relate to the world that way, it's about relationship.
Brit milah is about refusing to relate to the world that way, it's about relationship.
There muuuch more to this, but that's a pretty good start.
