• Moobythegoldensock@lemm.ee
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      15 days ago

      Problem is that this legitimizes their belief that there are set characteristics that define people as “manly.”

      Every 30 years or so we make some sort of social progress for women and/or LGBT people, and then a panic ensues that society is trying to destroy manliness. The Joe Rogans and Andrew Tates of the world suddenly pop up and start selling their nonsense that will magically make them the man’s men that their grandfathers were (while in fact their grandfathers were being told the same thing.)

      The solution to this isn’t to tell the loud whiners that their exact fears are true. It’s to divorce ourselves from the notion that being a man is determined by penis/testicle size, or even by having them at all. By telling the bigots that their worst fears are true, we’re tacitly endorsing their bigotry as legitimate, when we should be doing the exact opposite of that.

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      17 days ago

      I hate a lot of things.
      Guess i should start body shaming because of that?

      No. Only insecure losers bodyshame.

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        17 days ago

        It’s like with the “do you punch a Nazi?”, even pacifists have limits.

        Then again, I think for me it’s ok to hit people where it hurts when you want to hurt them— and penis size is the “alpha males” easy and effective target just like crowd size is a certain assholes weakness.

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          16 days ago

          Not even remotely comparable. When you punch a Nazi you are only hurting a Nazi.
          When you body shame you hurt every single person who has that characteristic.

          If everyone started shitting on characteristics you possess you probably wouldn’t like it either.
          Have some fucking empathy.

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            16 days ago

            Drag doesn’t know a single person who buys into that penis size stuff and isn’t a conservative. In fact, most of drag’s friends have a penis and want to get rid of it.

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      17 days ago

      My most satisfying sexual experience was with a small dude

      I begged him for a second date. I think he was self-conscious about it. Dude was marriage material