Many seemingly clear situations I have never managed to arrange in an appropriate folder in my brain, and one of them is the one in which diseases in people, in this case exclusively in men - are considered something shameful and for some reason, a condition that causes ridicule. Of course, the conversation is about the last taboo of the male population, the concept that makes bones tremble and for which comfort is sought in Ethanol and clumsily directed aggression, the problem that dare not speak its name, the absolute of fear and horror - Impotence!
For the point of this rant, the causes and consequences, the classifications of what kind of disease it is and the ways in which men deal with such a problem are completely unimportant. Another interesting thing is that this disease as a term has acquired the right to citizenship and can be used in an offensive connotation and even in order to provoke a random character, very often by the female crowd. It is even more illogical when it is used by the male crowd...
No one, if we do not count psychopaths and sociopaths, would make fun of a blind person or a person without a leg. A malarial or tuberculosis? I do not believe it. Dementia and Alzheimer's? Syphilis perhaps? Difficult... Without possibly randomly browsing a medical encyclopedia in which diseases that would cause someone to laugh would be found, I am not sure that such a thing as a comical disease can exist.
Is the reason the inevitable sexual connotation, or is it that despite the superficial 'emancipation' of the population and the use of smartphones and similar electro-exoteria that has processing power to shame NASA's computing machinery for the Apollo space program for a trip to the moon - we only have a strong delusion of emancipation and progressiveness behind which lies a centuries-old dullness that is just waiting for someone to scratch the surface a little... who could know...
There is also the tradition of male patience and the perception of men as beings less sensitive to pain, so various war veterans with damaged bodies and psyches, various victims of accidents at work or just 'ordinary' diseases like jaw rot - have had to 'grit their teeth' (if they were left to clench at all) and bury their pain somewhere between the interrupted restless sleep and the crying of the seventh baby...And it doesn't matter in the end. A disease is a disease and under no circumstances should it be the subject of ridicule and malice. At least not for people who consider themselves to be anything more than a medieval enclave in the year 2025.
`Hey brother, I heard that Mitre couldn't see a white cat in front of him, he was completely blind, you know, like that from birth... take your mobile phone if it gets hit by a beam it will be bad...`
Stupid?
Stupid indeed!
(Roger Mortis, 141)
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