Piercing a 2yr olds ears..

[Thelogicescapesme]

It's not a cultural thing in this case, more so the toddler is being treat like a fashion accessory. Mum had it done because mum thinks it's "pretty and girly"

As an adult whom has had to have two piercings surgically removed and antibiotics for complications post procedure I think it's fucking bonkers that anybody would inflict it on a small child.

AIBU and what are your thoughts?

@Mushypeasandchipstogo

I’m with you 100% OP. I think that it is vile for mother’s to pierce babies and young children’s ears. It should be made illegal IMHO.

Absolutely this. I can't believe anyone can do this in 2021. Watching my babies experience any sort of pain is unbearable. You've got to be seriously lacking decency to purposefully hurt and injure a baby just because you want them to appear more "attractive".

You've got to be seriously lacking decency to purposefully hurt and injure a baby just because you want them to appear more "attractive"

This in spades too.

I don't see the principal difference in piercing your baby, or tattooing them.

The line drawn by society is extremely arbitrary and not based on any kind of principal in ethics, health or consideration of harm, if it was, why not pierce lips, noses or navels?

That made me laugh
Go op
Baby piercings are grim

Why does culture matter when one adult does something like this to the body of a vulnerable child?
Does it make it better like foot binding in China because it was culture? Or tradition? Or maiming children because some fairy in the sky deemed it was essential?

@Lemonmelonsun

Why does culture matter when one adult does something like this to the body of a vulnerable child? Does it make it better like foot binding in China because it was culture? Or tradition? Or maiming children because some fairy in the sky deemed it was essential?

Because, tragically, adults’ feelings still matter more than the safety and well-being of children.

@Lemonmelonsun

Why does culture matter when one adult does something like this to the body of a vulnerable child? Does it make it better like foot binding in China because it was culture? Or tradition? Or maiming children because some fairy in the sky deemed it was essential?

Because if its white/European people doing it, it's okay. When brown people perform cultural mutilations it's savage.

I'm in Mallorca and almost all the little girl babies here have their ears pierced. I'm sure most of the parents are very loving indeed.

It’s the absolute epitome of chavvy child abuse

@Cavalierqueen

Actually really annoyed by that comment. I think chil abuse is being taken in a car repeatedly by a man and raped and abused before the age of 10. To belittle that for an earring is below contempt.

Completely agree. I am disgusted to people comparing earrings to FGM and child abuse.

I agree with you fulanigirl and Cavalierqueen.

Actually really annoyed by that comment. I think chil abuse is being taken in a car repeatedly by a man and raped and abused before the age of 10. To belittle that for an earring is below contempt.

Nobody is belittling that sort of horrific abuse from what I can see, unless I've missed a comment.

However abuse is a sliding scale and abuse by it's purest definition is to inflict harm on another, which is what putting holes in an unwitting recipients ears is.