The wife of a former business partner was dissatisfied with their newborn son’s circumcision because she thought they didn’t take enough off, like it was a trip to the hair stylist or something. She had them do it *again.* I tried to advise her against it, the pain, the trauma, the potential complications. My former business partner just shrugged, looked away and went tonmake himself another drink. Been there already, I guess. She became combative and told me I didn’t know what I was talking about, that mothers just know these things, that it didn’t hurt.
It was one of the more amazingly idiotic conversations in which I’ve ever participated. Poor kid. He’s going to have painful sexual relations when that day arrives. At the risk of being too descriptive, that skin needs to be able to move, to have some elasticity. He’s going to bleed.
How stupid is that?
THAT is not a real MOTHER.
When my son was cut *I* died. I swear, I’m still traumatized. He doesn’t care or remember a thing.
When I talk about it, he rolls his eyes. If it weren’t necessary to his having a covenant with G-d, I wouldn’t have done it.
No true mother can stand to see her child in pain. That is sick.