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Are you implying the term Big Dick Energy is body shaming men?
Yes. It equates body types with positive/negative traits. ie. "Big dick energy" implies "small dick = bad"
Can we shut the fuck up about being sensitive to everything. Just for a day. Sincerely guy with small dick. Its cold out. Always.
The thing about this is, you're saying you have a small dick, but this is big dick energy for real.
Maybe someone needs to come up with a better name for it because it's a very real phenomenon and most of us know exactly what it's referring to.
Confidence ? E.g: "he is very confident !" = "he has big dick energy !"
Maybe big cockfidence?
Why must dicks be involved?
everything is better with dicks.
Especially girls. My gf has a bigger dick than me and I couldn't be happier, no homo
Grand Phallus Je ne sais quoi
The term is secure or self-secure.
As in: “it didn’t bother him because he is secure in himself”
swagger
Yes; and more specifically, it’s a quiet confidence.
tight snatch energy
Nooooo 😭😂😂
Sorry that adapting is uncomfortable but no
No :(
I think it's analogous to referring to balls the size of wrecking balls or something. I don't know of anyone who thinks bigger physical balls are superior to smaller balls, but the phrase is still common to denote courage. I think big dick energy is not as decoupled from people's biology as big balls, but it's still mostly decoupled in common usage.
I could see how the phrase implies that, however this meme subverts that by saying that dick size doesn't matter as much as your energy does. And the meme literally says that small dick energy is bad, not having a small pp.
Small dick energy is bad but not small dicks? How does that make any sense. Think about it.
Saying small dick energy is just a different way of calling someone out for acting insecure it has nothing to do with the size of their dick.
Insecure like someone with a....?
Insecurity problem
Bruh the only time I've ever used the term BDE is to imply that the size of your pp doesn't matter with this meme. Im sorry its upset you, but i dont really care. Trans men can have BDE without even having a dick. YOU are the one implying that small dicks are bad, not me.
Honestly your whole argument is very reminiscent of people in the early 2000s using the word "gay" synonymously with "bad" and insisting it's not only inoffensive to gay people but that anyone who thinks otherwise is the real homophobe.
The whole "big/small dick energy" things is inherently rooted in body shaming for reasons that have already been pointed out. It doesn't matter that you didn't mean it in that way or that you're trying to flip the script by saying your energy doesn't necessarily reflect or corporate to your penis size.
It does literally refer to penis size. Hiding it behind the word "energy" is just obfuscation. It reminds me of racist people defending the N word by saying, "there's black people, then there's Ns. Black people are fine, Ns aren't."
You're just kicking the can down the road. It's the exact same idea, phrased differently. You just wanna say "small dick" and get away with it, that's all.
MFer did you just compare "small dick energy" to the n word 💀
Did you just describe what I did in a reductive way, without even attempting to explain your point? Why should I listen to you?
Try attacking the idea itself: "You’re just kicking the can down the road. It’s the exact same idea, phrased differently."
"That's reductive", said the N-word comparer 💀💀
Attack the argument or accept that you're wrong.
"Small dick energy" is just a way to say "small dick" without getting called out for it.
Begging people to debate you about how saying small dick energy is like dropping hard Rs is the most small dick energy thing I can think of, no thanks
See, you still show no evidence you have any clue what I'm saying, so how can I take you seriously? I never said it is "like droping hard Rs". Seriously, get up to speed or get lost.
Here's an actual, completely serious input for you: If you want people to take you seriously and actually engage, don't start by comparing them to outspoken racists. People will prefer to roast you
I'm not. I didn't realise people would be so confused by analogies.
I compared the rhetoric. That's the point of such devices. You don't have to be a racist to use similar logic to them.
This isn't complicated whatsoever.
The guy is hiding behind semantics, so I described another instance of hiding behind semantics. I deliberately used an extreme example so the error was more clear. Basic reductio ad absurdum.
How deep are you willing to go before you admit you made a dumbass comparison?
Look, I can pretend I'm smart by invoking latin shit too: adversus solem ne loquitor
Explain how the comparison is "dumbass", or admit you're just wrong.
Anyone can just make claims without justifying them. I claim trees speak German. I will elaborate no further!
Um, you think that's all I was doing there? Just saying random Latin?
You do realise this is just... you admitting you don't know what reductio ad absurdum is?
And you're acting like that proves anything other than that you're ill-equipped to discuss rhetoric?
I'll explain: reductio ad absurdum is a common rhetorical device whereby you take someone's logic, and apply it to the most extreme example, to show how the logic fails. It literally means "reduction to the absurd".
Here's an example:
What you just did now? Saying "I can invoke random Latin shit"? That's like you, in court, objecting to a lawyer using the term "mens rea", and saying they're just "invoking latin shit", because you don't realise it is in fact a common term in that context, and instead think they're just showing off.
Ooh, name calling! Based on a willful misinterpretation of what they said, too. A sure sign of a solid argument!
Lmao wat?