OK, so I understand the need of parents to be able to protect their children from corrupting influences, but c’mon, y’all…. If the worst thing you have to worry about is your neighbors building a snow penis after a heavy snowfall…well, don’tchathink you’re leading a rather charmed existence? Were you somehow blissfully unaware that the building of snow penises is one of the oldest and most revered pagan religious traditions? How would you feel if someone dismissed and thoroughly disrespected your flavor of Christianity? Whatever happened to religious freedom?
You don’t have to do much Internet research to learn that one of the recurring religious themes of winter is the idea of a young virgin worshiping a snow penis…and wasn’t this country built on religious freedom??
Left behind in this overheated discussion is the idea what we should somehow find a part of the male body disgusting or objectionable. Not that we need to be slapped in the face with it (figuratively speaking, of course), but why must we teach our children that a part of the human anatomy is worthy only of scorn, disgust, and revulsion? Why do we think it appropriate to indoctrinate our progeny with the prejudice that the human body is ugly, unclean, disgusting…or whatever negative connotation we happen to feel and believe ourselves?
Sure, there are probably more appropriate venues for the construction of the venerated and long-worshiped Snow Penis. Somewhere, I have to believe that someone is (as we speak) organizing an International Snow Penis Festival. The penis is part and parcel of the male anatomy; 50% of the population has one. It’s value and connotation has only what we choose to imbue it with; I just find it disturbing that so many of us have chosen to see it as something threatening, disgusting, and unclean. And how sad is it when the construction of a snow penis can be defined as “obscene” under Indiana state statute? Now a parent is expected to censor their creativity…or that of their children, just to protect the tender sensibilities of their neighbors?
Don’t we all have better and more serious things we could be worrying about?? After all, it’s just human anatomy…right??