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I think we need to stop size shaming men
Stop with the ‘little dick energy’ already.
The world is a cruel place when it comes to physical appearances — as women, more than men, should be aware of. But, why has it been seen as a credible insult for women to shame men for the size of their appendage (or assumed size) as an insult?
Many, many years ago I was sitting in a beer garden when a girl I knew came in very drunk. To be honest, she was fun and in a loud but not annoying mood. That was until a mutual friend of ours walked past. She had hooked up with him recently on a break from her on-again-off-again (and quite frankly toxic) relationship and then in front of a few of us began to talk about how his penis ‘was like trying to find a button on a fur coat’ — a phrase that to this day disgusted me. Imagine discussing someone so openly and diminishingly after them getting naked with you?! I know that this is a thing that men have always done — but it doesn’t make it right that a woman does it.
I am not friends with men or women who so openly discuss those intimate moments in a way that is intended to either shock or denigrate another human — only if the story is odd and amusing.
After that I completely lost respect for the girl — as I would have a man for doing something similar — but why is that some women, of all people, feel the need to…
