Ok, hear me out. I learned recently that my girlfriend has had two exes with very authoritarian leaning views- both highly narcissistic themselves and both had “surprisingly small members.”
I also learned that people assume I’m gay because of effeminate mannerisms. I never bothered to pay much attention to it because people can’t read minds. Further, I have little concern about how large I am.
But it occurred to me that authoritarians try to control other people to extreme degrees, and dictate what roles men and women have in society, and interestingly, the roles men do are things that make them look “powerful” or “strong” or just… “big.”
The ven diagram of authoritarian views, narcissism, lifted trucks, and demented opinions of masculinity is a circle. I also learned that those exes were HIGHLY sensitive about their size. I think the circle includes another anxiety as well.
Yeah! I’ll bet they’re ugly and smell bad too! My political enemies should be ashamed of their bodies!
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I didn’t say they should be, I said they probably are.
Like, we know authoritarians are inherently a detriment to society. I don’t think there is a single example in history where people benefited from authoritarian rule equitably to the ruler. Clearly cognitive dissonance is required to support authoritarians, and cognitive dissonance is a defense mechanism commonly found in anxious disorders. Projection is another one.
Given the focus authoritarians have of defining masculinity on things that have little benefit to any gender, they are projecting insecurity about their own masculinity, and performing all sorts of mental gymnastics to avoid the remaining anxiety.
Mix in a little of phallic humor that has at least existed since ancient times, and one can come up with the idea that they simply are insecure of their penis size.
No no, I agree, people who disagree with you politically are just doing it because they have small penises; that’s a very mature and insightful political theory
They’re authoritarians? That’s not a political disagreement, thats a human rights issue?
Edit: I’m sorry to whoever is offended by this, but having the political stance that anyone else has no say isn’t a political stance, its a problem.