Mr. C on Tolerance

Strange Obsession with Genitals

I came to a rather disturbing realization the other day. My people, Chinese people that is, love penis.

Yup those are penises. I don't know what else to say.

They eat it, they powder it then eat it, they powder it then put it in pills, and they probably drink it in their tea (unconfirmed, don't wanna confirm it).  They do all this because they believe that consuming penis will make them more virile, help with their circulation, or fulfill some other bogus claim that has its roots in a time when people still wiped their ass with leaves.

Granted traditional Asian medical practices have put us on to some pretty cool stuff, like ginseng for example which actually does have some proven beneficial properties. The successes of these traditions though don't make up for the mistakes or the silly superstitions that spring out of them.

One Giant Sausage Party

According to a recent study done by National Geographic they were able to determine that the most average person in the world is twenty eight years old, male, and is of Han Chinese descent. Now that is cool and slightly frightening but why exactly are there so many bloody Chinese males in their late twenties floating around?

What China may look like in the year 2020.

Well the reasons are many but one of the major contributing factors, and the focus of this part of the post, is probably sex-selective infanticide. The short and terrible of it is that a child may either be aborted as a fetus or killed as a infant simply because they weren't the sex that the parents preferred. The reasons why anyone would do this are many, and all are pretty god-damned dim witted, so going through them would be pretty pointless.

Anyway this barbaric practice may have led to the current ratio of 113 males to every 100 females in China. This would officially make China the biggest sausage party on Earth, and according to estimates by the year 2020 there could be 35 million surplus males in China.

As a side note, economists have predicted that the period onward from 2020 is going to see a lot of growth for Kleenex and Vaseline in the Asian market, if you don't already have money invested in those products I suggest getting in now.

SIDE NOTE: While Google image searching for a funny image that captured the spirit of the term sausage party I had failed to set my search filter to strict. Never ever search for the term sausage party without your filter set to strict, just don't do it.

I'm not Going to Take it Anymore

I love the parts of tradition that bring families together and helps them celebrate the positive aspects of their culture. I do my best to be open to what I could learn from another culture, and I've grown as a person because of it. But I'm not a tolerant or open person when it comes to traditions that do more harm than good.

There are species being pushed to the brink of extinction so that a bunch of people with more money than brains can put powdered dick in their morning tea.

There are countries around the world where innocent lives are extinguished so that a family can have a son to pass on a name.

These practices and many others like them are simply sick and barbaric, and one defense that is constantly brought up by supporters of such barbarism is that it's tradition. Well guess what, lynching black people used to be a tradition too, but that got thrown out when people realized that lynching anyone is a pretty dick move. We need to look at these traditions that we hold dear and ask, "Is this conducive to creating a functioning compassionate society, or is it leading to countless numbers of needless deaths?"  

If you end up going with the latter, then maybe it's time for a change.