Comments on: The Amazing Exploding Whale of Tainan

By: matt byrd

matt byrd — Sun, 25 Jul 2004 17:40:17 +0000

Those who wanted to seeMoby’s Dick…

http://www.geocities.com/matt_byrd/whale.jpg

Here is a Killer Whale (Orca orca) that is getting special handling at Sea World?. Found on the Web, don’t know the story behind the meat harpoon.

Matt

By: Lindsay Rae

Lindsay Rae — Thu, 26 Feb 2004 23:29:01 +0000

I just had to say that if somethin like that was coming through my town that I too would go to check it out, after all it’s not like something like that happens everyday (the whale, not the exploding part). And since nationality seems to be becoming such an issue in this discussion, I happen to be Canadian.

By: Yi

Yi — Fri, 06 Feb 2004 15:23:18 +0000

What’s wrong to watch a penis of whale? I guess people who think it is dumb or funny are too sensitive to the “sex”. Actually, I think only 100 people came to “take a look” of this penis is not as much as I expected. I am a Taiwaness girl, I would like to see it if I had a chance, it is just something unusually, interesting, and worth to study, and maybe I could only see it once in my life.

In fact, I feel sick about the sex culture here (I am in US). I got lots junk emails everyday showing how important the size of penis is, selling drug to enhance it and showing it through email even I told them to stop it. The “sex” shows in the cable are not healthy either. I am so worried to put my children under this environment in the future.

Think about yourself first then talk about others later. Look what happened in the super bowel. It is ok to show your naked body, but it is wrong to have a girl naked in the public. I just don’t understand why people here are blaming her more than blaming him.

I just want to tell you the differences of cultures. Other people’s cultures are for respect and taking as a mirror to correct ourselves’, but not for making fun or taking it to show how well developed we are. I do believe US is doing this very well compared with other countries, and that’s why I came here for study.

By: jerkweed

jerkweed — Wed, 04 Feb 2004 21:01:46 +0000

Have you people even read Moby Dick? There’s a whole chapter dedicated to them cutting off a sperm whale’s penis, and wearing it as a cossack, and running around pretending they were some kind of huge penis priest. And you’re critizing some people for wanting to just LOOK at it?!

By: James

James — Tue, 03 Feb 2004 21:19:30 +0000

I am a US ex patriot living in Taipei, Taiwan and my observations are that Taiwanese men are just as penis obsessed as any red-blooded american male. Sure you might find it odd (because you might not be comfortable with your sexuality) but I would imagine seeing a huge dick would be funny, although a bit sophmoric. Whats wrong with having it as a laugh.

The odd thing is i find that most the people here will laugh about a penis (i even visited a friends house over chinese new year and they had a penis piggybank) but will they talk about sex or engage in it? No. I would say they are more repressed than your average american male, and any outward homage to the penis stops there.

By: Catbarloo

Catbarloo — Tue, 03 Feb 2004 01:41:43 +0000

I know I would

By: ting

ting — Mon, 02 Feb 2004 12:52:43 +0000

Perhpas I am somewhat biased because I am Taiwanese, but c’mon! Assuming that the report of Taiwanese men gathering merely to “‘experience’ the size of its penis” is accurate, I feel the need to say that culturally, the Taiwanese are a lot less sex-obsessed than Americans. (Again, anime is Japanese, not “Asian”.) And if this happened in the U.S…please! Tons of people, frat boy or not, would go check out the rumored large whale penis.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 02 Feb 2004 06:39:08 +0000

Maybe I should simply just expand it to Asians.

Have you ever seen anime porn?

And with regard to a frat boy they are boys. These are supposedly adults trying to experience a very large penis. It’s as infantile as it is bizarre.

By: Low-Tech Redneck

Low-Tech Redneck — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 20:14:48 +0000

I get the feeling that person has never seen the caliber of person who joins a college frat in this country….

By: Anne Haight

Anne Haight — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 15:42:40 +0000

Well, for starters, Tainan is not in Japan. The people in question are Taiwanese.

Additionally, many eastern cultures have religious beliefs around the symbolism of male and female duality. The penis is an ancient, traditional emblem of the male half of duality, the male force in the universe.

There is also the obvious fertility symbolism. I mean, a sperm whale’s penis is like 5 feet long.

And if something like this happened in the US, I honestly do think that a rather large number of people would turn out for a gawk at the huge whale dick.