Circumcise All Africans!

Sometimes  I wonder if the AIDS Experts Bunglers merely throw randomly at a dartboard to tout "possible" treatments for the "dreaded" epidemic.

Here's the latest -- go to Africa, circumcize all African males, prevent 300,000 deaths!!

Well, I dunno about the rest of you, but circumcizing adult males seems like a ....pretty ...dicey maneuver, if ya ask me. Might not go down too well with some of the folks there.

Strange, white, do-gooders from the bureaucratic bowels of WHO, asking grown men to drop trou for a painful little snip --- to ward off a fatal virus that they barely can find?  Sounds a bit fishy to me. Do y'all think it'll fly?

I ain't been to Africa, but I would think that some of the health problems besetting the continent probably stem from lack of clean water, lack of nutritious food, political instability due to the residual ill-effects of despicable colonial rule and some bad dictators, who usurp the law and steal foreign aid.

Call me crazy, but I'm not sure if lack of circumcision would rise to the level of a Top Ten concern over there.....

I can hear my sainted Bubbe from the Heaven reading this, and giving a loud "Oy Vey, such Mishigas these people!"

(hat tip from our Pal, Johnny Blackman)

Comments

[George]

Hank,

Are you absolutely, positively certain that this story was not penned by Chico and loosed into the ethyr by the fine fellow whose visage graces your homepage?

[Michael]

Well, lets weigh the options. If the choice is between circumcision or taking toxic prophylactic anti-hiv drugs, or rectally or vaginally administered microbicides, or a vaccine that would definitely cause me to be labeled HIV positive, or taking any of the body deforming, liver destroying, immune system massacring AIDS drugs, I would definitely choose circumcision as the least toxic and least destructive choice over any of the other choices. But better yet, I think I would just run fast as I can the other way if I saw any of the white HIV witch doctors chasing me through the jungle with a circumcision knife, bottles of pills, hypodermic needles, or any of their other primitive means of warding off the evil spirits of HIV and AIDS, while promising to keep me healthy.

[HankBarnes]

George:

Chico, Zeppo, Harpo -- calling Dr. Fine, Dr. Howard, Dr. Fine.

I make the following declaration:

AIDS doctors are the DUMBEST bastards on planet earth!

Michael,

"...the white HIV witch doctors chasing me through the jungle with a circumcision knife, .."

Hah! I'm laughing my ass off at this imagery.

If I was in Africa, I would wear a sign-- "Hey White Man. Stay the F%@% Away from Me!"

There is nothing worse than uninvited do-gooders with a cause, botching things up and making them worse.

HB

[Dan]

There have been hundreds of points in this debacle that I thought the sheer absurdity would cause it to collapse. This should be one of those points, but I know better now.

I've been accused of Freudian posts before (no problem, actually), but it makes me wonder if the white folk aren't a bit obsessed with dark-skinned folks phalluses. From my understanding, circumcision isn't the norm in Europe. Why aren't we pushing for European men to be circumsized?