Nobody's Business

We freely profess to having followed with mild interest the birth of king-to-be George to Prince William and Kate Middleton.  They seem like such genuinely nice and caring people, and appear so surprisingly normal despite the constant glare of the media and the weight of a royal life. We're happy for them. We wish them a long, healthy, and happy life together.

We have a special fondness for Kate Middleton especially - when she emerged from the hospital with her husband to reveal their new baby to the waiting public, we noted with joy and appreciation the fact that she looked precisely as a woman who had just delivered a baby should (albeit much better coiffed):  she still had a significant tummy. Thank you, lovely Kate, for demonstrating to the world that a woman is not suddenly slender immediately after giving birth, and that the expected post-delivery roundness is nothing to which attention should be drawn, or which should be carefully concealed. We're grateful to you for being so marvelously natural.

We were a tiny bit surprised today about particular 'news' articles relating to the royal family.  The articles speculated in detail about whether William and Kate would have young George circumcised. (You can find such articles here, for example, or here. Or here. Or here. Or here. You get the idea.)  Yes indeed.  People are apparently actively wondering about the status of the royal baby's penis.

Sigh.

In the past couple of decades (or perhaps even longer), there has been a raging debate regarding circumcision. Yea or nay? Health benefits, risks, religious concerns, and so forth.  We have our own clear and well-researched opinions about circumcision, and based necessary decisions regarding the male Offspring on those opinions.  And the world need not know what our opinions are. Ever.

Equally clear:  the state of tiny George's willy is NONE OF OUR BUSINESS.  Ever.

It's quite fascinating, really, how nothing is left private any more.  Who is to blame:  the media, or those to whom the media cater -- people who willingly consume every tidbit of others' personal information?  It fills us with dismay.  How we wish we could turn off the sources of the prying and intruding, and that people would focus instead on Real News.  The world would become a better place -- regardless of the circumcised, or uncircumcised, state of anyone's penis.

This charming image of the royal family was found here.