Just ask Groucho

San Francisco-based “inactivists” supporting a ban on male circumcision have finally obtained enough signatures to place an initiative on the ballots that would end this barbaric procedure in their city.

These inactivists/extremists no doubt feel that they have solved the problem of what’s really wrong with our country. The simple fact is that around 80 percent of males in the United States are circumcised. Supporters of the ban say circumcision is unnecessary, dangerous, extremely painful and a form of genital mutilation. Prior to frivolously spending money on this initiative they simply could have done a survey asking those 80 percent of U.S. men having had this procedure in the first 2 to 10 days of life these simple questions: 1) What do you remember most about your circumcision? 2) Would you say the pain you felt at the time was “extreme”? 3) As an adult, do you feel like your genitals have in any way been “mutilated”? 4) Would you like us to shut up and go away?

I have no doubt the taxpaying citizens of San Francisco will speak loud and clear, and resonate the old Groucho Marx saying: “It’s the most ridiculous thing I ever heard of.”

Gary Puntney

Veradale