Is cutting off a penis funnier (or just less serious) than female genital mutilation?

Question

Stand up comedians, senator's wives (Vitter), t-shirts (eg radicalrags.com), and most of all, feminist bloggers seem to find the idea of harming a man's penis rather funny. Yet when a woman is sexually mutilated, it is treated very seriously by all but the most aggressive trolls.

Penis cutting jokes don't offend me, but nothing really does (including FGM jokes, if they exist). In fact, I rarely see anyone get upset by Bobbitt jokes or whatever, even though it must be a horrific event.

I'd like personal opinions on the topic as well as your thoughts on society's attitude. Feel free to add dick chopping jokes, if you know any good ones.

Just because a joke is about genital mutilation doesn't mean it isn't funny.

Q: What do you get when you put a baby in a blender?
A: an erection

Funny jokes can be about anything. I just can't think of any good FGM jokes, but severed penis jokes are a dime a dozen. Since FGM is many times more common (in the world overall), why aren't there any good jokes about it?

Answer 1

Interesting and predictable answers: It's the guys fault if his penis is cut off or it doesn't happen as often as FGM. What does frequency have to do with it? Is starvation common? (see below)

Do you people read write you write? It's very telling of our current culture a double standard readily apparent in a score of ways. Male bashing is OK. Why is it OK to joke about millions of starving children in Africa - (Ethiopian jokes) but not FGM? Don't try to make people feel guilt because you laugh at everyone else in the most derogatory manner but get POed when the joke hits closer to home.

Some say they don't like any of these jokes: At least you're consistant, I can respect that POV.

Answer 2

I think it is Barbaric and should be abolished.The Chasity belt was a bad ida as well and is no longer used.Now it is used as a sex ade but this type can be taken off.Female genital mutilation can not be reversed.With all the nerve endings there are in the clotures, it is like cutting off the head of a guys pines.Some get the labia cut.That would be like a guy getting his ball sack removed and having his balls shaved up inside him.On the average a guy gets circumcised at a very young age.But for the most part is unnecessary if the penis is caped clean.Now I assume they leave an opening for the wren witch will still back up and go places where it should not go.If this happened to a guy it would end up in his testicles.The infection would be very painful..I should know it happened to me 3 time.The thread time I fought it off by frequent masturbation.

Answer 3

Penis cutting jokes are made because everyone knows that male circumcision does not include cutting off the entire penis. But making a joke of female circumcision is unethical because thousands of infant girls die each year due to the chopping off of their entire clitoris and stiching up their labia to leave a small hole for later menstruation and sexual intercourse after marriage, without any antiseptic, using unsterile instruments, and by perfect unprofessionals. All this just to make sure she won't fornicate before or outside marriage. If anyone can seriously make a joke of this, I dont know how many people would actually find it amusing.

Answer 4

I don't think mutilation jokes about penis or vagina are funny at any time. (even though I've known a few men I like to, never mind). You very seldom here of a man being mulitated but with woman its quite common. Even here in America its happening. When its a man its always a joke, unless its like Bobbitt but is rare and always about revenge. With woman its a way of life and the sad part is its always a females who insist on it. And the sad part its usually a member of her family. Even though she is just 5 or 6 years old.

Answer 5

Neither are funny. Both are equally horrific. Now that I think of it, I think I may have heard of this Bobbitt person. Although I don't agree with your sense of humor (seriously, neither of those concepts are any fun), I do think you raise a good point. Mutilation = bad, no matter who or what you are.

Answer 6

What a horrible thing to happen to anyone. Man or a woman. Lorraina Bobbett should have been locked up for a very long time for what she did. Its human mutalation and torture. She should have gotten punished as such. I think her heusband is also a fruit but still no excuse at all for her actions. There is no excuse to do something so drastic and altering to anyone. Man or woman.

It isn't less or equal funny, its not funny at all. Had The Bobbet man been a child molester or rapest then I may have a different comment. Not for cheating.

Answer 7

The only 2 explanations I have for those people disregarding male sexual mutilation as funny are:
1)They are imbeciles and they've got penis envy
2)They are imbeciles and they hate men.
If you don't see any kind of mutilation as funny, kudos to you, but if you do, you fit into one of these descriptions.

Lady luck: I have yet to see a joke with a dick...:)

Answer 8

I don't find either funny, but I think that the reason that some people find jokes about the John Bobbits of the world less offensive than jokes about female genital mutilation is the culture surrounding both. Nobody considers chopping off a man's penis to be "right" as a general practice, and it is a very rare occurrence that is always prosecuted (except in the very rare instance of medical necessity, as with cancer). Female genital mutilation is not only considered right in some cultures, but mandatory for ALL women.

Answer 9

I don't find either funny. I would think that anyone that did would be considered seriously disturbed.
I have heard Leno and Letterman make jokes about Lorena Bobbit and her crime. How anyone finds humour in harming another I will never know.

Answer 10

John Bobbitt has a nickname with his running friends, "A Stitch in Time Saved Mine".

666666z -- that was a funny joke!