Foreskin Man: Unkind Cut at Jewish Tradition and Jews?

Words and images just got sharper in the battle against circumcision, as Matt Hess–who founded MGMbill.org, the group behind the Santa Monica, San Francisco and San Diego  anti-circumcision bills, released the second issue of the comic book “Foreskin Man.”

In this story,  blond, super muscled “intactivist” super hero Foreskin Man (secretly Miles Hastwick, a retired corporate scientist who now heads the Museum of Genital Integrity and throws wild yacht parties with lots of booze and busty babes off the coast of San Diego)  does battle against the dark haired, bearded Monster Mohel clad in the traditional Orthodox Jewish wide brimmed hat with a tallis around his neck. Explains the text of “Foreskin Man”:

Nothing excites Monster Mohel more than cutting into the penile flesh of an eight-day-old infant boy.

On the cover of the comic book, one of Monster Mohel’s Uzi-toting, pais-wearing, Israeli-named assistants restrains the distraught mother Sarah as her husband watches the mohel prepare baby Glick for circumcision. A book with Hebrew letters rests next to the traditional wine and goblet on the pool table where the deed will be done. Foreskin Man saves baby Glick, kidnapping him and delivering him to a tribe of intactivists (led by the voluptuous Tia Kumming) who light a bonfire made of stolen circusmstraints, the medical instruments used in hospitals for circumcision. The End.

Charges of anti-Semitism have been leveled: The Jewish Journal says “Foreskin Man

gives further credence to the accusation that so-called intactivists are in fact motivated by anti-Semitism.

The Jewish Journal quotes Hess:
As far as the anti-Semitism charge, I might understand such an accusation if our proposed legislation applied to everyone except Jews. That would be like saying we care about all boys except the Jewish ones…We do what we do because we strongly believe that no one has the right to cut off part of another person’s body without their consent. We believe that amputating part of a boy’s penis is no different in principle than amputating part of a girl’s vulva. If you ask any activist in Africa why she is trying to stop the practice of female genital mutilation, I suspect that her answers would be very similar to ours.

Hess had this to say to SFGate’s Debra J. Saunders:

A lot of people have said that, but we’re not trying to be anti-Semitic. We’re trying to be pro-human rights.

Trying not to be anti-Semitic?  You’ve succeeded.

 

(images: foreskinman.com used with permission)

9 Responses to "Foreskin Man: Unkind Cut at Jewish Tradition and Jews?"
mzchief | Friday June 3, 2011 08:24 pm 1

Uh, yeah Matt Hess, that comic is looking pretty anti-Semitic to me. D00d, the Rebbe doesn’t even have eyes!


Lisa Derrick | Friday June 3, 2011 11:54 pm 2

Weirdly both Hess and his hero live in San Diego, and share share the same initials. Wonder if he’s going to ComiCon with this?


Rev Daniel W Blair | Saturday June 4, 2011 08:10 am 3

To ban one of the commandments of God is one more step in total rebellion against God, which is a pre-cursor of the Great Tribulation and the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. Posted by Rev. Daniel W. Blair [advertising snipped]


mzchief | Saturday June 4, 2011 09:07 pm 4
In response to Rev Daniel W Blair @ 3

This is written like an advertisement for your website and books you’ve written. You can advertise at FireDogLake.Com by contacting the Advertising Manager Jeff Cosgrove (more here).


Kelly Canfield | Saturday June 4, 2011 09:12 pm 5
In response to Rev Daniel W Blair @ 3

Sincerely, I love your work.

You de-legitimize yourself without me having to do anything.

Smooch! (Love the cut and the un-cut equally, heck, they’re all PENISES and Yummy!)

Kelly Canfield


Lisa Derrick | Saturday June 4, 2011 09:41 pm 6
In response to Rev Daniel W Blair @ 3

Rev. Daniel, while I appreciate your fervor, which was left intact, your self-promotion falls under one or more of the seven deadly online sins; ergo, the snip.

Foreskins can certainly bring things to a head. I wonder what else is coming?


Starbuck | Sunday June 5, 2011 03:01 pm 7
In response to Lisa Derrick @ 6

Depends on whether you have skin in the game!


DonWilliams | Monday June 6, 2011 06:28 pm 8

Anti-Semitism from the left? Shocking.

Well, not so much, really.


Gerald Fnord | Wednesday June 8, 2011 08:44 am 9

Almost all Jews and Muslims are circumcised, but we’re not that large a part of the population, so I’d hazard a guess that many more non-Jews and -Muslims are circumcised every year for ostensible reasons of health (and matching Daddy’s).

So it’s interesting that among the first targets were Jews…this line of argument is the same as the especial interest some campaigners have in the essential evil of ‘gay’ sex acts when such are actually more often performed by straight couples, almost as if they’d rather both hide a big chunk of their agenda from masses of people who wouldn’t like it and focus on a group numerically weaker (and owning fewer guns on average).

Personally, I think no better introduction to life on Earth were possible: your sources of pleasure will also be sources of great pain, “Catcha-22 says they can do anything to us we can’t stop them from doing,” and you can go on with strong possibilities for joy, even if they’re not all they could have been.


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