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Re:Do Babies Dream of Baby Sheep? by throe9393i44i on Sunday June 28, 2026 @11:19AM (#48708111)
> Why can I remember this stuff? I’m not sure.

> It may have to do with some of the rough emotional stuff

There is a strong pressure to censor this.

If kids remember, we could not do surgeries without anastesia on new borns, and could not marinate open wound in filthy diapers!

Re:Do Babies Dream of Baby Sheep? by stavros on Sunday June 28, 2026 @11:53AM (#48708481)
Yeah I'm not sure you should do surgeries without anaesthesia on newborns either way.
Re:Do Babies Dream of Baby Sheep? by canjobear on Sunday June 28, 2026 @12:21PM (#48708768)
It was standard procedure to do invasive surgeries on newborns without anesthesia until the 1980s, on the theory that they can’t feel pain. https://hms.harvard.edu/news/long-life-early-pain
Re:Do Babies Dream of Baby Sheep? by xerox13ster on Sunday June 28, 2026 @12:04PM (#48708586)
Why are all the MRA activists so fucking weird about circumcision.

Folks like you drag it into the most unrelated conversations in the weirdest way.

I used to mod a trauma based subreddit and there was one dude who would _not_ drop it. Dudes name was something with MGM in it while he actively denied that FGM was a thing and that women are subject to sexual harassment.

Maybe the general public would give a shit if the MRA took feminists seriously at all, instead of shouting down the issues women face at the hands of the patriarchy that set up the circumcision practice in the first place.

Thing is most people generally fucking agree with you but you come off so fucking weird and you dismiss people who are actually struggling more than men are and like yeah “boo-hoo they cut our dicks” but COME ON, man.

This had NOTHING to do with that.

You drew a tangent line on this convo’s circle, another circle on that tangent line and then a different tangent line on the second circle at a different fucking angle to get to that topic from this one.

Re:Do Babies Dream of Baby Sheep? by throe9393i44i on Sunday June 28, 2026 @12:19PM (#48708742)
Get a body piercing anywhere you want, nobody is banning that for adults! Problem is consent (I am big fan of that btw!)
Re:Do Babies Dream of Baby Sheep? by xerox13ster on Sunday June 28, 2026 @12:33PM (#48708914)
Nobody consented to this conversation about very early memories being made about male genital mutilation.

An MRA failing to understand consent when they have an opportunity to make something about MGM in spite of being a “big fan”? what a shocker.

Re:Do Babies Dream of Baby Sheep? by DANmode on Sunday June 28, 2026 @02:41PM (#48710174)
> and like yeah “boo-hoo they cut our dicks”

You don’t have a complete picture or empathy for how trauma works.

Ban this person from your fiefdom if they’re OT - but also look in the mirror.

Re:Do Babies Dream of Baby Sheep? by cityofdelusion on Sunday June 28, 2026 @03:48PM (#48710881)
I'm not sure if the person you replied to edited their comment, but right now, yours looks totally out-of-line and ranting about nothing they brought up.
Re:Do Babies Dream of Baby Sheep? by xerox13ster on Monday June 29, 2026 @04:56AM (#48716618)
They didn’t edit it. This part is what I’m referencing and read as an obvious reference to circumcision:

> If kids remember, we could not do surgeries without anastesia on new borns, and could not marinate open wound in filthy diapers!

What other surgery is commonly performed sans anesthesia on newborns and also generates as they so eloquently put it -a wound that marinates in filthy diapers-?

Re:Do Babies Dream of Baby Sheep? by tomhow on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @03:50AM (#48729689)
Please don't fulminate or engage in battle on HN. If you see a bad comment, flag it, and if you're find one that's particularly egregious or part of a pattern, you can email us ([email protected]) so we can investigate.
Re:Do Babies Dream of Baby Sheep? by margalabargala on Sunday June 28, 2026 @12:42PM (#48708998)
Surgery on infants without anasthesia is not something done any longer in any country that particularly cares about the health of its citizens.
Re:Do Babies Dream of Baby Sheep? by IAmBroom on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @08:20AM (#48731672)
Circumcision sans anesthesia is commonplace.
Re:Do Babies Dream of Baby Sheep? by margalabargala on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @05:50PM (#48739705)
Where? Not in the US it isn't.
Re:Do Babies Dream of Baby Sheep? by tomhow on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @03:42AM (#48729646)
We've banned this account. Please don't introduce generic tangents in HN threads. The guidelines explicitly ask us not to do this. The guidelines also ask us not to register serial throwaway accounts. Please stop, it's a waste of everyone's time. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html