“Five young boys in the nude, a police line-up so that you can identify his tallywhacker. Please, please can we call it a “tallywhacker”? Penis is so ppp… penis is so personal.” —Principal Carter from “Porky’s.”
The most recent episode of “South Park” featured the characters obsessed on the subject of penis. It was funny but I thought it was a bit over the top….until I read a news story about a San Francisco circumcision ban ballot initiative shortly after the show aired:
SAN FRANCISCO — A proposal to ban the circumcision of male children in San Francisco has been cleared to appear on the November ballot, setting the stage for the nation’s first public vote on what has long been considered a private family matter.
….The proposed ban appears to be the first in the country to make it this far, though a larger national debate over the health benefits of circumcision has been going on for many years. Banning circumcision would almost certainly prompt a flurry of legal challenges alleging violations of the First Amendment’s guarantee of the freedom to exercise one’s religious beliefs.
So, let’s see. With all the problems facing San Francisco like budgetary problems, inflation, and political favoritism extended to the friends of Nancy Pelosi via ObamaCare waivers, there is a group of San Franciscans who have focused in on the topic of penis with all of the obsession displayed by the characters in the latest “South Park” episode.
You have to ask yourself what type of mentality would be so obsessed with the penis (or should we call it a tallywhacker?). Of course, you have to be realized that we are talking about San Francisco here whose self-absorbed mentality was also mocked by “South Park.” To get an idea of just how obsessed one of the lead proponents of this ballot measure, Lloyd Schofield, is on this subject, just look at what he wanted to name it:
Schofield’s group calls its initiative the San Francisco Male Genital Mutilation bill, though he said the city attorney has opted to call the measure “Male Circumcision” on the ballot. The group’s official website features a picture of a wide-eyed, delighted-looking baby and urges visitors to help “protect ALL infants and children in San Francisco from the pain and harm caused by forced genital cutting.”
Of course, this ballot initiative hasn’t got the slightest chance of pasting constitutional muster due to its obvious violation of religious freedom. Jewish people have been circumcising male children for over 3000 years and suddenly they are expected to halt that practice in the San Francisco environs due to the bizarre “mutilation” obsession of one Lloyd Schofield and friends?
However, even though this initiative will ultimately be thrown out, that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t have fun with it for now as a source of mirth. I say put Schofield and friends on the tube as much as possible and allow him to rant on and on about his “male genital mutilation” obsession. Stand up comedians would bless them for all the hilarious material they would provide. One comedy line I can think of just off the top of my head would be:
“Hey Lloyd! Don’t think of circumcision as mutilation. Just consider it to be body sculpting.”
And could another South Park episode combining penis obsession and San Francisco be far behind?
