A fine line and a large tongue

I've been sitting on one particular post for about two months.  There's a fine line between "documenting" bizarre behavior/personalities and blatantly making fun of people.  I try to stay clearly on the side of documentation, as I don't fancy myself a snarky individual.  When posting something, I play a little game where I ask myself "if you were doing this in public and saw someone post about it in a blog, would you laugh and say 'fair enough!' or would your feelings be hurt?"  If my feelings would be hurt, I don''t post. 

So, when I saw a woman with the largest tongue I have ever seen on a BART platform in November, I was torn.  On one hand, this woman's tongue was something else. It literally could not take my eyes off of it.  How many tongues without tongue rings do you notice on a daily basis?  Probably zero.  This woman's tongue tongue was extraordinary.

On the other hand, it is a part of her body.  A body part I'm fairly confident she has no control over. How would I feel if someone blogged about seeing my freakishly large-for-my-body feet?  And then I looked down and bam! there were her feet, you couldn't miss them!  I haven't seen such large feet on a relatively small body since I was an eighth grade boy... and don't get me started on her big toe!  (By the way, I did not draw this example from thin air.  Many people have looked at my shoes and commented on my disproportionately large feet.  I inherited my father's feet but not his 6'0" height)

I reasoned that if I could rule out any medical disorders or syndromes, it would be okay to post pictures of the tongue.  So, I took to the internet for research with a Google search for "enlarged tongue" and "disorder."  After perusing my favorite medical websites, in my bystander-non-expert-opinion, I don't believe she exhibited any of the symptoms of the most common medical disorders or syndromes which may result in an enlarged tongue.  In all other aspects of her person, she was utterly unremarkable. 

I reasoned that if I avoided insulting words like "freakish," it would be okay to post pictures of the tongue. 

I reasoned that if I approached the story with awe and wonder (which were my genuine reactions), it would be okay to post pictures of the tongue.  After all, if I saw an extremely beautiful person on BART, someone of supermodel status, I wouldn't hesitate to post about it.  This would be similar...

Right?

But I couldn't hit the Publish Post button to my original post.  It just felt mean.  It may work for the characters on South Park and Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia, but I don't want to live like that.

So, this is my compromise -- to share the story with you through sharing my moral dilemma. I hope I haven't offended.