-or- It still makes us laugh
It happens again and again. Every time I see it I wince. I wonder why it is funny, I know it shouldn't be funny.
But every time it still makes us laugh.
Face it, we just love to see guys getting smacked in the jimmies. "The family jewels', "the boys", "the 'nads", and so on. We have a thousand names for them, and a thousand ways to hit 'em. Kicked, punched, head butted, baseballs, hockey pucks, bats, golf clubs, and just about anything else you can think of. And we continue to find it funny.
It is in the movies, on funny video shows, commercials, and just about wherever you look. But why? I mean, really, why is it so funny?
I have been hit there numerous times. In fact I got so sick and tired of having my jewels jangled in sports that I broke down and bought a solid, good old cup. Not comfortable in the least. Not even a little bit. But hours and hours of cuppage are preferable to one ball blaster any day. So, knowing how painful it is, why does it still make me laugh? Is it because I am exulting in the fact that it wasn't me that time? Is it the way the body limply falls to the ground, or the glazed over look one gets when it happens? I have heard it said that a culture's sense of humor derives from a need to deal with those things that are taboo. So does that mean we all have some innate desire to run around kicking guys in the jimmies that we are just suppressing? Boy, I hope not.
I don't know why, but after seeing it a thousand times some of us are still laughing at it. At least, I know I still do. Maybe I am the sicko here.