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Yesterday I sat in horror watching one of the worse internet assaults I have had yet to witness. It is no secret the laws regarding internet harassment are lose, and need a lot of improvement. I have dealt with them one-on-one in recent months with my local police department, as well as our local FBI office because of a level of harassment that has come through my own personal website. But because of the loose laws, nothing could be done, and these same criminals continue to get away with their harassment.
Well, I am disgusted to say I was witness to the harassment of a mother who lost her son in the recent days. Joshua died of a Congenital Heart Defect that he had been battling with since he was born. In the days before his death, his religious family made the decision to have him circumcised, and that is where the harassment began. Rabid intactivist’s jumped down her throat, harassing her, leaving comments on her blog which were nothing short of grounds for arrests on harassment, and made me literally sick to my stomach.
But it all took the cake when the little boy passed away the next day. These rabid terrorists started flooding her website with comments about the circumcision killing her son, calling her selfish, and all kinds of nasty comments. This mother is going to be burying her son. She does not need to be harassed because of a private medical choice she made for her child. Anyone who has the balls to harass a woman whose child just died deserves to be in JAIL!
Some of the comments that took the cake?
“My heart sure doesn’t break for her. On the contrary, she got exactly what she deserved. If every baby who was mutilated died, it might put a stop to the practice. This so-called tragedy is good publicity for outlawing genital mutilation. I hope she feels guilty for the rest of her miserable life & my sympathy for her is ZERO.”
“They didn’t care. It was more important that his penis be cut up than he live.”
“The doctors are trying to feed them the lie that the circumcision didn’t kill their son. This is why, even though it doesn’t seem ‘compassionate,’ people need to let’er rip on her. No, people should not be silent and ‘compassionate.’ While everyone is feeling sorry for the mother, what about the child?”
Guess what rabid intactivists? All you have done is make yourselves look like giant assholes! Which is EXACTLY what you are for harassing a mother whose child just died. Disagree with her all you want, but SHUT THE FUCK UP!
It is NOT all about YOU or YOUR choices or OPINION. In fact, NO ONE cares what you have to say about Joshua or his family. You are ONLY fueling the fire against you.
But just when I thought it couldn’t get any worse… A blog I stopped reading forever ago because of plagiarism, extremism, and downright horrible and scary opinions stepped into the ring against this mother.
First off, when you are talking about organizing a protest against this family, and the hospital this child died in, you cannot call your website “Peaceful Parenting” there is absolutely nothing peaceful about your website at all. It is filled with hate and lots of it. Including the post you wrote with grossly inaccurate information about the death of baby Joshua. But the icing on the cake? Stealing his pictures from his mothers website to further your hate filled agenda.
I hope they take you to court and you get what you deserve.
Before I close, I know there are many intact advocates out there that are not taking part in this, and I applaud you for staying out of this. This post is focused on those who have taken part in harassing this family.
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That Dr. Momma post TAKES THE CAKE. Here’s the comment I left yesterday, which (shocking) never got published:
Any particular reason that you make a point of saying that “Spelling and grammar are kept intact as originally posted,” and then go on to leave out the end of the original post by Jill’s friend:
‘I have also disabled comments on this post and many previous to save them from the heartache of having to receive the hateful and hurtful words of those with no knowledge of the family or the situation.’
I am very much anti-circ myself, but the level of attack on the family today has been one of the most appalling, nauseating things I have ever witnessed.
Please keep compassion always at the core of what you do; yes, for the babies, but also for the mothers and the families.”
And if you read the comments there now, someone named Lynn says:
“She’s been tweeting all day. This is on the mother’s page. I shit you not:
@TheEllenShow I just lost my 7 wk old son today. died in my arms. the anti circumcision community is bullying. he died of CHD not circ. help
I’ve lost SEVEN children to miscarriage. I couldn’t imagine holding and bonding with a seven week old to loose it. I’d be ready to jump off a bridge. Not tweeting.”
She had absolutely NOT been Tweeting all day! LOOK AT HER PAGE: https://twitter.com/fierceandfiesty
She did Tweet to the Ellen show, which I completely support, given the unfathomably reprehensible BULLYING she had endured. Yep. And her previous Tweet before the Ellen one? Two on MONDAY. And prior, two on Sunday. And so on. SERIOUSLY. What is the matter with people like Lynn? Why would you spread such bullshit INTENTIONALLY trying to make the mother look awful?
And by the way, on the Ellen subject? Here are my 2 Tweets from when I saw Jill’s:
“Congrats, intactivist ZEALOTS. The mama you’ve been attacking has contacted the Ellen show asking for help re: the BULLYING she’s suffered.
So be real $@# proud of yourselves when Ellen addresses this & paints a portrait of all anticircers (& I am 1) as horrifically cruel.”
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Sadly, if given time and space to mourn, reflect, and heal, Joshua’s momma might have become one the most vocal, strong, and credible inactivists the anti-circ folks have ever seen. She might have dedicated her life to making sure no other mother repeated this particular chain of events…but a lack of patience, a whole lot of arrogance, and a heaping bucket-full of douchery on the part of a few hate-filled people have ensured that this family (and pro-circ’ers everywhere) have a case FOR circumcision. Nice work, rabid-inactivists–shoot yourself in the foot much?
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Ditto to everything Anne just said. All of that.
I already knew that lady and her cronies were fucking nuts. You can see them posting shit all over my Babble twitter list page (anonymous, but I’m not stupid – it’s been the same nutjobs since July.) And then they came back to my blog again this morning.
Do we need any more proof that REAL activists shouldn’t be associating with those wingnuts? They are a humiliation to our cause(s.)
Tragic. Ridiculously sad in all aspects. I can’t imagine being so militant about a cause that I loose sight of humanity.
**Charlotte
I can’t believe DrMomma had the audacity to use those pictures I’m sickened by it! I’m sickened by EVERYTHING that went on yesterday. I lost a lot of respect for a lot of people not because they were anti circ or pro circ but because of the way they treated Joshua’s family!
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I have followed several of these blogs over the past few days, and my heart breaks for two families. First for the family who lost their child, and second for the intactivist family. I speak metaphorically, but Justine’s comment about “shoot yourself in the foot much?” is right on. I circumcised my son. My doula tried to convince me not to, but she wasn’t very nice about it. Her horrified looks, judgemental comments and pamphlet overload just made me feel rebeliously beligerant. I now regret my decision. He didn’t have any major side-effects from it, but I was a mother watching my son suffer afterward… for what to see his pecker look like his dad’s? It is always awful when the true message gets bogged down by extremists. I’m also a christian, so I’ve felt the judgement when one of “mine” does something outrageous. The muslims felt it on 9/11. The intactivists are going to be feeling it for a while. And I’m sorry for that.
There are comments missing from the Peaceful Parenting Facebook page from yesterday in which people expressed disgust that she stole their family pictures and included them in the post. The didn’t delete the replies to those comments, though. Whoops.
Unbelievable.
I can’t believe the ignorance that is shown by these idiots. Before you attack someone who is grieving, please learn the facts. Her son had Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome. Being a parent of a son who has HLHS, I know what these kids go through and that many of them do not make it. Please think before attacking.
To the mom: I’m extremely sorry about your son. May God bless you and your family, especially in the days to come.
I found out about this just recently as well. It sickened me beyond anything Ive read since starting to blog. How the hell do these inactivist live with themselves? I was livid – still am. The news came on the heels of finding out another blogger was shutting down her blog because of bullying and harassment she was enduring for voicing her opinion on gay marriage. It wasnt the popular thought, but it was respectful.
When we wonder where all the bullies we knew as kids went to when they grew up.. they came to the internet.
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I was harassed for 6 days straight by these people. Visit my blog at http://www.jentotheden.com to see the history of it. I am currently working with my attorney to put a final stop to their harassment of me.
This story makes me sick and I am sharing it. Thank you for posting this.
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