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Re:No, Romanian Cops Did Not Find Andrew Tate Because of a P... by stavros on Friday December 30, 2022 @12:57PM (#34187652)
Off-topic, but it feels like I'm the only person who thinks phrases like "small dick energy" are bad. When did it become acceptable to shame men for the size of their penis? Whenever I've mentioned it, people have defended its usage with arguments that didn't sound convincing to me.

Why is it acceptable to say "small dick energy" in the age of body-shaming awareness?

Re:No, Romanian Cops Did Not Find Andrew Tate Because of a P... by dragonwriter on Friday December 30, 2022 @01:22PM (#34188034)
> Off-topic, but it feels like I'm the only person who thinks phrases like "small dick energy" are bad.

You aren't, there’s been considerable discourse on Twitter, on both this and “big dick energy”, most recently in response to the Thunberg tweet involved in this incident.

> When did it become acceptable to shame men for the size of their penis?

Its not new to do that, at all, but “small dick energy” doesn't do that, just as “big dick energy” doesn't praise for the opposite but instead references a different trait stereotypically associated with it (which “small dick energy” plays on by referencing a corresponding and opposing stereotype. (Which may be problematic on its own, but is different from shaming the target for their penis size.)

Re:No, Romanian Cops Did Not Find Andrew Tate Because of a P... by stavros on Friday December 30, 2022 @01:31PM (#34188176)
My issue is not that it shames the target, it's that it implies that "small dick = bad" and "big dick = good", and perpetuates the idea that men with small penises are inferior. It would be the same if the phrase were "short person energy", we don't need people feeling bad about their height.
Re:No, Romanian Cops Did Not Find Andrew Tate Because of a P... by SamoyedFurFluff on Friday December 30, 2022 @01:09PM (#34187876)
Acceptable, no, understandable, yes, a petty remark to insult a man who has prioritized his identity around a shallow and abusive perception of masculinity

It’s like the hitler has only one ball thing

Re:No, Romanian Cops Did Not Find Andrew Tate Because of a P... by where-group-by on Friday December 30, 2022 @01:01PM (#34187729)
"petty persona energy" doesn't have the ring to it.
Re:No, Romanian Cops Did Not Find Andrew Tate Because of a P... by croes on Friday December 30, 2022 @01:00PM (#34187719)
You've read Tate's tweet? What goes around comes around.

BTW small dick energy dies say anything about the real size, it just has the same kind of energy

Re:No, Romanian Cops Did Not Find Andrew Tate Because of a P... by stavros on Friday December 30, 2022 @01:03PM (#34187784)
> You've read Tate's tweet? What goes around comes around.

No, and it's not really relevant to what I'm saying.

> BTW small dick energy dies say anything about the real size, it just has the same kind of energy

These are the arguments I hear. "It doesn't actually mean you have a small dick, just that you're petty and unimportant, like the people who have small dicks".

Re:No, Romanian Cops Did Not Find Andrew Tate Because of a P... by croes on Friday December 30, 2022 @01:45PM (#34188365)
It's more that people who think they have a small dick try to compensate that with extremely "manly" behavior. They are the ones who reduce men to site of their dick as their main quality.

Small dick is a metaphor for a small ego, because those people think that women are only interested in well hung, successful, rich, powerful tall man.

Re:No, Romanian Cops Did Not Find Andrew Tate Because of a P... by croes on Friday December 30, 2022 @01:47PM (#34188398)
BTW context is always important in communication.

For instance, if someone calls you a dick it does matter if you called him something similar before.

Re:No, Romanian Cops Did Not Find Andrew Tate Because of a P... by Zigurd on Friday December 30, 2022 @01:06PM (#34187820)
Only when you pose next to a supercar you probably borrowed as a prop. He is being shamed for being a colossal anus over a long enough period of time to leave no doubt.
Re:No, Romanian Cops Did Not Find Andrew Tate Because of a P... by beyond_based on Friday December 30, 2022 @01:04PM (#34187786)
To be fair this whole topic is off-topic for HN. I wish the so called “guidelines” would disallow shitflinging threads like these.

To center in on your question, body shaming, or rather body allowance, was never about some egalitarian, altruistic goal. When dealing with mass or social media, you are in a feminine-centric sphere of communication so the garbage in and garbage out that flows is catered to them. It’s bitches flexing on each other, and men are bending sideways to try to understand the games they play. Eventually the bitches flex on men because they know the men are too weak and crippled by the state to do anything about it (short of beating the shit out of them, as they should).

Tate represents an intrusion into this sphere because he’s not playing by their rules, so they’re using the old playbook of trying to ridicule man from a woman’s point of view (are you surprised at this point?). It’s again just games between women.

Re:No, Romanian Cops Did Not Find Andrew Tate Because of a P... by davidguetta on Friday December 30, 2022 @03:11PM (#34189452)
Body-shaming awareness never ever existed in real life, especially in the mind of girls (and even less in teenager girls..)