Scientific American blogger mocks men mutilated

Ask yourself would this "humor" be posted on Scientific American's blog if the victims had been women with their vaginas cut out? Then why is it "funny" when the victims are men? Please post your thoughts on the blog. Excerpt:

'This is one of the ones for the IgNobels that really is only funny because, well, it’s about penises. Getting eaten by ducks sometimes. But otherwise, it’s actually quite a serious subject, and the paper itself has important implications for surgery in…delicate areas.

It turns out, during the 1970s, Thailand had an epidemic. Not an epidemic of cholera or polio or something (though it may have had those, too). No, this was an epidemic of revenge. A particular type of revenge, by women on their philandering husbands.

This type of revenge stemmed from (or so the authors’ hypothesize), the Thai concept of a “cool heart,” to suppress anger and avoid confrontation. This apparently work pretty well some of the time, but has its limits, when wives, confronted with cheating spouses, come up while they are sleeping…and cut off their penises.'