I just saw this YouTube video (not appropriate for work) and I think it’s positively hysterical; the kids in the video all go to the high school I graduated from, and actually, part of it is shot in my HS alma mater.  I feel a little creepy posting this, but I think it’s really clever, actually really well-edited, and a jumping-off point for a rather important sociological discussion.  (Plus, the song sounds vaguely like one of my favorite songs, “One Year, Six Months.”).

Given the 5-10 “enlarge your penis” spam e-mails I get a day, I’ve been thinking more and more lately about men’s anxiety over their penis size.  The logical segway would be to compare this anxiety with the stress women have about their weight.  After all, if we were going with society’s rather limiting constructs of gender, bigger penises make men more masculine and being skinny and smaller makes women more feminine.  Both genders’ size anxiety is something they can do virtually nothing about (given that 99% of diets fail, and cosmetic surgery to “remedy” both anxieties are limited to people of very elevated socioeconomic status).  It’s interesting that both the ads for penis enlargement pills for men and diet pills for women both come from the angle of “Do it to please the opposite sex!” which I think implies that these sizes issues would be a much smaller problem if people weren’t hardwired to do everything possible to entice the opposite sex.  And it’s also interesting–and COMPLETELY FRUSTRATING–that the second one checks of which gender she or he is on Facebook, Facebook users are bombarded with sidebar ads for diet pills and penis enlargment pills, respectively.

Anyway, enjoy this funny video.