Everyone who’s dealt with kids knows you have to bisect the giraffe equally from nose to tail so everyone gets 2 legs, or somebody will cry that it’s unfair.

Being delicious one time works, since everyone else in your tribe can see what delicious gets you.

This was nearly 30 years ago. I hope they don’t still make that assumption. Back then, they didn’t even ask. If I hadn’t stopped them, they would have just done it as a matter of routine. I really hope that’s changed now, and I’m curious if people who have had kids more recently in the US have a different experience. I hope so.

e: did they even ask you? Did you even consider it before recently, or is this still just what’s done?

The hospital did this with my son, too.

I’d already told them before he was born we weren’t having him circumcised, but a nurse showed up the morning after to take him, and I’m glad I was awake, because they weren’t going to ask me. I groggily asked ‘where are you taking him?’ as she was walking away (I figured it was for blood work), and she said, ‘oh, you’re up? For his circumcision’. ‘No, no, we’re not doing that.’ She put him back in the crib.

They just assumed, and then it showed up on my bill. Took months to get the charge removed.

I’m not religious, and we don’t need to routinely mutilate baby penises, thanks.

Where’ssss my foreskin, preciousss?

He looks like licking him would let me see sooooo many colours. Why tasty look if not tasty?