Arousing Suspicion

There are three things that never fail to “move the needle” when it comes to generating discussions: religion, politics, and sex.  My work here of course is focused on heated internet discussions that broadly paint people into two camps and how we, as Americans, have seemingly lost the ability to have reasonable disagreements with each other.  To demonstrate how deep this runs, I normally stay as far away from religion and politics as possible because those subjects are just too easy (and they typically find their way into any discussion board or comment string anyway).  But sex is another story.  Friend and fellow blogger “Sweet Tea” (whose excellent stuff you can sample here) has told me that whenever she feels the need to increase traffic on her page, she just throws in a few photos of boobs for her male readers and the hits increase by a factor of two (see what I did there?)

So this past week a little news story caught my attention.  It’s a story about a man named Jonah Falcon who claimed to be overly groped by the TSA (I don’t think this was related to the other recent TSA alcohol related event I wrote about).  The kicker on this story is that Mr. Falcon happens to be the owner of the world’s largest penis, measured at 9 inches flaccid and 13.5 inches…uhhhh…not.

It turns out that the TSA agents thought Mr. Falcon might be trying to smuggle something in his pants (snicker).  So they frisked him.  Yeah.  My favorite part of the story was when the TSA agent asked Mr. Falcon if he had “a growth” (snicker).  Mr. Falcon calmly replied “That’s my dick.”  Hahahahahaha…I would have been tempted to say, “A growth?  Not yet.  But I will if you keep doing that…s-l-o-w-l-y.”

Obviously this was something I thought might generate a bunch of discussion and I wasn’t disappointed.  However, what I also found was that there was not a whole lot of divisive comments and/or sniping about this story.  Many of the comments were not only way more clever than what I could have come up with but also had me laughing so hard that I decided this week I would simply let the internet denizens have their say without me.  So, presented for your reading pleasure, without further adieu, my favorite commenters yet:

You guys make me proud!

Be Reasonable.