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March 27, 2007
Gray Lady Sings the Praises of Castration
The New York Times has lent its megaphone to Dalhousie University professor Richard Wassersug, who compares himself to a Biblical angel after having undergone chemical castration in the course of prostate cancer treatment. A few excerpts:
God is thought to surround himself with angels as advisers and emissaries, who are identical in appearance to males castrated before puberty: tall, beardless, nonsexual beings with voices like the legendary castrati. […]
When I was stoked up on testosterone in the old days, for example, I would obsess about exacting revenge on those who offended me. Now I see the foolishness in such macho fury. […]
I don't recall crying much as an adult, but since my castration I'll weep while watching Mothers Against Drunk Driving commercials. […] I've become more sensitive to the trials and tribulations of others. I am thus no longer embarrassed by my tears. I consider them humanizing, just as they are for angels. The link to my chemical castration is obvious; testosterone fuels aggression but suppresses empathy and the ability to cry. […]
Singing in a group never appealed to me before my castration, because it offered little opportunity for individual advancement. But recently I joined a choir, where I now enjoy the richness of the collective sound born of collaboration — and how much I've gained by accepting how much I've changed.
Maybe moonbats could put something in the water to make us all into eunuchs. Of course then we couldn't reproduce — but so much the better for Gaia.
On a tip from V the K.
Posted by Van Helsing at March 27, 2007 10:03 AM
Comments
Note the beard. I know another Canadian university professor of philosophy that espouses "sitzpinkling" sitting on the toilet like a girl. What a loser.
Posted by: Doug at March 27, 2007 10:18 AM
So he associates not being vengeful, showing empathy, and singing with not having his boys anymore?
What about males who are even tempered? Are they not manly? And guys who like to sing? And guys who ever cry? What about if they watch Schindler's List and cry? Does that mean they got no nads? Or does it just mean they're human.
Gimme a break. I'm sad this guy lost his jewels, and glad that he's got some kind of newfound joy. But don't associate being sensitive, being even tempered, or wanting to sing with having no testicles.
Posted by: NudeGayWhalesForJesus at March 27, 2007 10:51 AM
Now if he could just stop talking about God, he'd be the perfect democrat.
Posted by: Beef at March 27, 2007 3:27 PM
Was the bow tie pre- or post- ?
Some ways not funny this. Call it a coping mechanism.
If I had to trade balls for life as a result of prostate cancer I'm not sure what I'd do.
Pretty sure I wouldn't have written that NYT article though.
Posted by: Jeff at March 27, 2007 3:35 PM
Well this isn't altogether surprising in our emasculated society. They are now calling it the Oprahization of our culture-the elevation of compassion and tolerance to the very highest of virtue. Since boys are not allowed to be boys anymore, they cannot develop the manly characteristics associated with being male. The sensitive "metrosexual" is all the rage now. The feminization and the war on boys has turned many males into eunuchs already.
Posted by: Chris at March 27, 2007 4:41 PM
I'd call the guy a "putz," since he's obviously just that, but since his equipment no longer operates in a certain way, the Yiddish term no longer strictly applies.
So, I guess he'll just have to be yet another feminized liberal idiot, and an honorary member (sorry!) of the New Castrati.
Posted by: jc14 at March 27, 2007 9:06 PM
A FOX, caught in a trap, escaped by tearing off his brushy tail.
After that, the other animals mocked him, making him feel so ashamed that his life was a burden to him. He therefore worked out a plan to make all the other foxes the same as him, so that in their common loss he might better conceal his own deprivation.
He called a meeting of foxes. A good many came to it, and he gave a speech, advising them all to cut off their tails. He said that they would not only look much better without them, but that they would get rid of the weight of the brush, which was a very great inconvenience.
But one of them interrupted his speech.
"If you had not lost your own tail, my friend," that fox said, "you would not be giving us this advice."
- Æsop,
Posted by: Tomslick at March 28, 2007 6:06 AM
what an awsome link at the bottom of the page, I'll be laughing about that one for months.
Moonbats, they suck, but they are funny
Posted by: tim at March 28, 2007 1:15 PM
