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Clan Forum => Debates => Debates archive => Topic started by: Only Lilly on July 05, 2017, 20:56:54
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A mother-of-six has received death threats online after claiming to have pierced her baby daughter’s cheek.
Enedina Vance’s Facebook post went viral overnight when she shared a picture of her little baby girl with the stud.
The activist wrote:
“I just know she’s gonna [sic] love it!! She’ll thank me when she’s older lol. If she decides she doesn’t like it, she can just take it out, no big deal.
“I’m the parent, she is MY CHILD, I will do whatever I want!! I make all of her decisions until she’s 18, I made her, I own her!!
“I don’t need anyone’s permission, I think it’s better, cuter and I prefer her to have her dimple pierced.
“It’s NOT abuse!! If it was, it would be illegal, but it’s not. People pierce their babies everyday, this is no different.”
But Enedina ended her rant below the photoshopped image with the hashtag “sarcasm”.
She had intended to promote her anti-circumcision views for baby boys.
But Enedina was them forced to share two more posts defending her words.
She said:
“Wow, so as (hopefully) everyone knows, my last post was FAKE. I photoshopped that picture of the baby to look like I had her dimple pierced. It is in fact PHOTOSHOPPED.
“I seriously can not believe how many people missed that this was purely satirical, I actually used the hashtag #sarcasm , yet people were still threatening to beat me to death, call child protective services, & take away my children.”
Does it look photoshopped?
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That's horrible... That some people actually have the guts to call themselves a parent and do things like that and say things like that :(
(Photoshopped or not, which I don't think it is, cause then all the outbursting about "it's my child, I can do whatever I want blah blah blah" wouldn't have been necessary)
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Photoshopped or not, I still find the post to be highly inappropriate.
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Yeah, it's photoshopped. It also becomes more clear in the context of her facebook post (tagged sarcasm). She did make quite a good point about people getting super upset over a piercing, but not thinking twice about circumcision. Can read about it here:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-4667602/Mothe-gets-death-threats-piercing-baby-s-DIMPLE.html
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I actually see her point. She was deliberately being outlandish and inappropriate, because those are common things people say when making the decision to have their baby boys circumcized. Perhaps she could have been more clear? It's unfortunate that people react by threatening violence on her.
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I think that the post is great, circumcision should be up to the person whoever has the tool, not the parent. Whether it provides and benefit or not, it should be the choice of that person and nobody else.