Watching New Year’s Day bowl games with my three boys, a commercial for a documentary came on the television. I instantly knew the topic. I shuddered in fear.

My boys, unaware of the subject at hand, continued to watch unfazed.

The commercial continued, “Everyone thought she was a nice girl…” I contemplated if I should quickly change the channel. In that instance, I decided “no.” This was a story they should hear. It might give them pause. Keep them from making a bad decision. Avoid an unhealthy relationship. I let the narrator continue.

“Well, a nice girl does not cut off a man’s penis.”

As my boys sat there not knowing what to say, with their mouths wide open, I realized that after 25 years, the Bobbitts had returned to deliver a fresh round of shock to a new generation.

PS – Boys listen closely. The moral of the story is that the narrator was probably wrong and that creep did indeed deserve it.