{"id":12461,"date":"2011-02-05T12:20:34","date_gmt":"2011-02-05T20:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/AMPTOONS.COM\/blog\/?p=12461"},"modified":"2011-02-05T12:20:34","modified_gmt":"2011-02-05T20:20:34","slug":"our-newest-superhero-foreskin-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=12461","title":{"rendered":"Our Newest Superhero: Foreskin Man?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foreskinman.com\/index.htm\">Foreskin Man<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/goodmenproject.com\/newsroom\/why-foreskin-man-is-anti-semitic-comment-of-the-day\/\">The Good Man Project<\/a>. To respond fully will require a more careful reading than I can give the comic now, but even paging quickly through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foreskinman.com\/no2panel01.htm\">issue two<\/a> reveals an awful lot that is problematic in the way the characters are drawn. The Good Man Project pointed to this image of the evil Jewish circumcisers:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"The evil Jewish circumcisers - bad guys in Foreskin Man\" src=\"http:\/\/www.foreskinman.com\/images\/no2panel27-monster-mohel-and-jorah.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"283\" \/>But the depiction of women is also problematic:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Image of women from Foreskin Man\" src=\"http:\/\/www.foreskinman.com\/images\/no2panel07-party-on-the-langerhans.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"630\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The routine circumcision of infant boys, medical and otherwise, <em>is <\/em>a problem. Somehow I can&#8217;t see a comic like this being the way to address it.<\/p>\n<p>Cross posted on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.richardjnewman.com\">The Poetry in The Politics and The Politics in The Poetry<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found a link to Foreskin Man on The Good Man Project. To respond fully will require a more careful reading than I can give the comic now, but even paging quickly through issue two reveals an awful lot that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=12461\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,17,34,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anti-semitism","category-cartooning-comics","category-gender-and-the-body","category-men-and-masculinity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12461"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12463,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12461\/revisions\/12463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}