Of earrings and infants
Yesterday I saw my six month old niece who had recently had her ears pierced. Am I alone in thinking that piercing the ears of an infant is about as wrong as wrong can get? #1 - it is cruel, #2 - it doesn't give the girl the opportunity to decide for herself if she even wants pierced ears, #3 - it looks stupid on babies. This formerly cute baby just looks ridiculous with these little gold earrings. Frankly I think it should be illegal for anyone under the age of 10 to have their ears pierced and I can't think of many reasons to convince me otherwise.
posted by Trent at 1:11 PM
2 Comments:
Piercing a baby's ears provides a great service to parents. Before a baby's ears are pierced, baby is just a useless appendage, something that needs to not only be lugged around but must be accompanied by support apparatus (diaper bag, toys, bottle bag, etc.). With a pierced baby, the ears can be used as a conveyance, placing strong hoop earings, bags can be attached to the little one, leaving a parent's hands free to drink a beer.
Also, if you didn't know, adults who had their ears piercecd by their parents can have the piercings reversed by simply not putting earings in. The skin of the ear lobe will grow in, leaving the hole vertually un-noticable, that is unless your anal retentive about... oh... ah... right.
lol
yeah it's true... and it isn't cruel to pierce baby's ears...
cruel is that stuff they do in africa with circumsicion for everybody.
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