Gordon Freeman 🖲️ @theonefreeman@pixie.town

@feld @devurandom@cybre.space @vantablack @irina@wandering.shop Circumcision was introduced to the US in the late 1800s as a way to punish young boys for masturbating. One of the main supporters was John Harvey Kellogg. He was a Seventh Day Adventist, and they are very anti-sex. After it caught on, circumcision sort of became a tradition in the US.
My parents are christian, and they said that religion was part of the reason they circumcised me. Outside of the US, it is rare for christians to be circumcised.

@vantablack Agreed. Only a consenting adult should be able to choose to have parts of their genitals cut off. Male, female, and intersex children should be protected from genital cutting without their consent. Everyone deserves autonomy over their own body.
I was circumcised as an infant, and my skin was cut so tight that I wasn't left with enough skin to accommodate an erection fully when puberty started. Erections were painful, and my skin would sometimes tear and bleed. You don't know how someone will grow and develop when you are cutting them as an infant, on top of them not being able to consent to it.
A recent study found that 11.5% of the infant circumcisions in the US they tracked for two years were botched in some way: http://spuonline.org/abstracts/2018/P21.cgi?fbclid=IwAR2i6ihhKEzPTXABDkJbJ67nVKQZ3cWsc9gMmicPtvsSgxLymKxClMhoyXQ

@Calcifer@social.bau-ha.us @vfrmedia Thanks! I'll have him try those. I think the main thing he wants to use the gui for is a graphical web browser, he may not use many other apps.

@thufie I have a foreskin inflation device for foreskin restoration, and if a bit of air gets into your urethra, you can get little dick queefs.

Question for anybody who uses a screenreader or other accessibility software on GNU/Linux, or knows anything about them: What DE/WM should I recommend to someone who wants to try using one?
I have a friend who's blind and deaf, and his main system runs Debian with no gui installed. He uses BRLTTY to read his TTY with a mechanical braille display.
He also has two windows systems that he uses for some things, with NVDA and JAWS set to output to his braille display.
He emailed me recently saying that he's fed up with a lot of the things Microsoft is doing with Windows 10, and he wants to try using a GUI on his Debian system so he can browse websites that won't work from a terminal browser, and do other things that he's using the windows computers for right now.
Has anyone tried using a few DEs with a screenreader? I think anything that works well with a screenreader should work with his braille device. boosts appreciated

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