I’ve long thought it was odd that the most tender and vulnerable part of a man’s body, the one part that, when struck, brings him to his knees in an instant, would be used to indicate ‘toughness.’ The idea of walking around with ‘big swinging balls’ doesn’t sound very comfortable either (elderly men complain about the condition regularly), and owning a pair of ‘brass balls’ sounds about as appealing as having a mouthful of glass teeth, aside from the fact that solid metal testicles would permanently end your reproductive capabilities and no doubt shrink ‘Little Elvis’ to microscopic size as they get annoyingly cold in the winter. Here, actress Betty White puts her own (painless) ‘twist’ on the subject:
