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=== Their "mission" ===
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|Text=We are a group of concerned citizens who have first hand experience dealing with the {{Highlighting|crazy online world of anti-circumcision activism}}. We are neither trying to promote circumcision nor discourage it, but we definitely want to promote good information for parents and other interested people with regards to [[RIC| routine infant circumcision]].<ref>Circumcision has not been a "routine" procedure since the courts started to require [[informed consent]] more than 40 years ago.</ref><br>We feel someone needs to stand up for [[informed consent]] and {{Highlighting|parental choice when it comes to circumcision}}. Someone also needs to stand up against the bullying and hate speech by anti-circumcision fanatics! Enough is enough!
|Author=Circumcision Choice
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This behavior is a normal response from people who have become aware that they too were victims of early childhood [[circumcision]] and are now trying to resolve the [[Collective Cognitive Dissonance|cognitive dissonance]] and dilemma. Because Gross is a Jewish American man, it is obvious that he is [[circumcised]] himself - probably on his 8th day of life as [[Jewish circumcision|usual in Judaism]]. He doesn't like this obvious link to be seen.<ref name="IW"/> A cognitive dissonance can develop from the dilemma that you believe that your parents always love you and won't harm you in any way, but then you get information that they had someone remove an [[intact]], healthy, most sensitive and protecting part from your most private parts when you were a newborn, the [[foreskin]].
One suspects that he is trying to encourage repeating the trauma of [[circumcision]] on others.<ref name="vanderkolk1989">{{REFjournal |last=van der Kolk |first=Bessell |init= |author-link= |etal=no |title=The compulsion to repeat the trauma: re-enactment, revictimization, and masochism |journal=Psychiatr Clin North Am |location= |date=VanderKolkBA 1989-06 |volume=12 |issue=2 |pages=389-411 |url=http://www.cirp.org/library/psych/vanderkolk/ |quote= |pubmedID=2664732 |pubmedCID= |DOI= |accessdate=2022-06-28}}</ref>
{{SEEALSO}}
* [[Judaism]]
* [[Psychological issues of male circumcision]]
* [[Trauma]]
{{LINKS}}
* {{URL-FBprofile|andrew.gross|2021-06-08}}