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metaphortunate son ([personal profile] metaphortunate) wrote2012-06-09 09:31 pm

oh well, whatever, nevermind

Okay, deleted my last post because it was too much bitching about people being Rong On The Internet (although, I am from Texas, I have heard plenty of that kind of Rong In Real Life actually) and I'm trying not to do that so much, because what's the use.

Instead, a couple bits of randomness. If you're not reading [livejournal.com profile] jimhines (you are reading [livejournal.com profile] jimhines, aren't you? Of course you are.) he posted about the Hugo-nominated novelettes, with links. (Novelettes - great word. I visualize slim feminine novels in fancy skirts and comically enormous hats marching for the right to be taken seriously.) May I highly recommend "Six Months, Three Days" by the deliriously talented Charlie Jane Anders. First line: "The man who can see the future has a date with the woman who can see many possible futures." (Spoiler: AWKWARDNESS.)

The Junebug is not circumcised, and my best friend's son is not circumcised, and (we were told by a pediatrician) 50% of American baby boys these days are not circumcised but in our local area it's more like 80% are not, and that seems accurate among my circle of momfriends. But every adult male I've ever seen naked has been circumcised. Which means that now when I see a cut baby boy I'm like AAAH kid what are you doing with a grown man's penis?
lovepeaceohana: Lulu, somewhere around six months old, smiling out from a hooded bath towel. (lucas)

[personal profile] lovepeaceohana 2012-06-10 07:19 am (UTC)(link)
That was actually pretty much the reaction I had the one time I changed a diaper for a cut baby boy. It was - strange, to say the least, and I've seen uncut adult penises before.