StoneToss: Episode 12

Comic Name: Flesh and Blood

Description: N/A

Mouseover: Fun Fact: if you're a member of the right (((religion))), you can even get old men to drink blood from the knife wound.

What The Comic Is: A woman speaks ill of the practice of giving children hormone treatment. The man she's speaking with inquires about the condition of her children's penises, to which the woman responds with a dismissive affirmative. 

What StoneToss Actually Thinks: jews bad 

Why It's Fucking Stupid: Alright so this is a comic that is almost, aalllmoooost, daring to be intelligent and thoughtful without any bullshit. Unfortunately, StoneToss can't say anything about a political or societal subject without reminding everyone about how much he hates Jews. Go figure.

While it's an interesting observation that putting children on hormone treatments bares some strong parallel to circumcision, the mouse over is, obviously, a complaint about the Jewish tradition of Metzitzah B'Peh, an ancient circumcision tradition. In this ceremonial circumcision, the mohel (fancy word for penis-snipper) uses his mouth to orally 'clean' the circumcised penis of blood. While this practice is certainly very debatable in modern times, StoneToss wants to make sure everyone is 100% clear on his antisemitism with the inclusion of the "((( )))" triple brackets (which, at the time of the comic's publishing was a new dog whistle for the 'exposing' of Jews, where one would triple bracket the names of Jews online. It was also a browser extension that would automatically place the brackets around Jewish names on webpages).

Whatever feelings you might have on children and hormone treatment, it's certainly an interesting posit that people will speak out against hormone treatment while circumcising babies without another thought. StoneToss has always been firmly anti-circumcision (even in his work pre-StoneToss), but leave it to StoneToss to somehow flavor such a benign stance with the dingleberry spice of antisemitism.