I love me some Greta Thunberg snark as much as anyone, but how is it that the same people who rightly call out fat shaming are totally fine with dick-size shaming?

If body shaming isn't cool, it isn't cool even when it's This Fucking Guy. Tate's problem isn't his dick size, it's that he's a giant asshole.

@kims

Let's not use #tonepolicing to blunt Greta's point.

Face it, when we say #smalldickenergy we're never talking about the actual size of someone's dick. So it's not #bodyshaming, "small dick energy" refers to behavior.

In 0.00000001% of "dick measuring contests," are any dicks ever measured.

@sean
I'm not tone policing.
Back in 2016 I spent a few days reading the smalldickproblems subreddit. I quickly lost count of how many men there talked about suicide and how much worse things had been since the constancy of "tiny hands" Trump jokes.
It was... eye-opening.

@kims

I think that's totally unrelated to the issue of preening / posturing / gun-toting / fossil fuel flaunting / chest beating men having "small dick energy."

These dudes love to attack women and then play the victim.

I'm not buying any of your objection to the term #smalldickenergy

Monkeys With Smaller Testicles Scream Louder to Compensate

Loud screamers compensate for small testicles... but it works.

ZME Science
@sean
I think we're talking past each other.
If people want to continue making guys with small dicks feel bad because saying "small dick energy" is a fun way to rag on guys like Andrew Tate and Trump, all I can do is call it out, same way I call out people who say "jew them down" to describe someone who bargains.
I'm just not going to pretend that bystanders aren't being hurt by those jokes when they have repeatedly assured me that they are. YM<in whatever car you drive>MV.

@kims @sean
Kim, you changed my mind. I don't want to make men with small members feel bad even though, to Sean's point, that's clearly not the point of the insult. Also, we definitely need to change the general discourse on the importance of size.

A bigger issue is that *any* insult could potentially hurt some unintended community. Are we just supposed to stop insulting people? Where's the fun in that?

@schwartzster
I've been online for 30 years. I promise there are many many ways to insult people without causing collateral harm. And thank you for your reply, it made my day.