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Still waiting for a valid argument as to why doesn't regulate motor vehicle size or aftermarket modifications

not-so-random pre-emptive reminder that is hurtful and counterproductive, no matter whose body parts are in question

find another way to mock irrational decisionmaking

@DrTCombs Metaphors are also a thing...

It's pretty clear that "compensating" and other similar comments is not a comment about physical size of ones genitalia, but instead about the fragility of one's ego.

@danbrotherston wait until you have to unsee dozens of penis jokes in reply to a photo of your daughter and you'll understand why I'm super prickly about this.

@jec @DrTCombs

I'm sorry, you're suggesting that it isn't a metaphor?

You believe that when someone says that someone is "compensating" it's for literally physically small genitalia rather than for a fragile ego?

That's a strange take...how does a truck help someone have larger genitalia?

@danbrotherston @DrTCombs

> That's a strange take...how does a truck help someone have larger genitalia?

That is not my "take". I don't particularly believe anything about the genitals of big truck owners. I didn't come up with it, I'm not the one who has to make logic of it... I'm just telling you what it means, aka "don't shoot the messenger

@jec @danbrotherston This is the last thing I will say on the topic: any picture I have ever posted on the internet that includes a large truck and a small child has received dozens if not hundreds of replies that include literal, direct jokes about genitalia. They are neither appropriate nor accurate nor helpful, and I will not tolerate them on my social accounts.

@DrTCombs @jec I mean, fair enough, you can moderate your social media feed as you wish. And frankly, crude jokes aren't particularly helpful discourse anyway.

But I've never felt shamed by such euphemisms, and believe you me, I have plenty of issues with body shame.

@danbrotherston
Do you realize that by insisting on focusing on metaphors and not, as I have clearly explained, actual literal jokes about bodies, you are denying the validity of my personal experience?

@jec

@DrTCombs @jec

I don't mean to deny the validity of your experience.

I was referring exclusively to your earlier comment that suggestions of "compensation" like people would make about a person choosing an oversized truck is "bodyshaming".

People making inappropriate or creepy jokes is of course not acceptable.

@jec @DrTCombs

I'm sorry, you can pretend to be the authority here all you want, but you're wrong. People are referring to a person with a fragile ego.

@danbrotherston
I'm not claiming "authority" over anything. it's plain common knowledge. dramatic much? tbh it's a bit strange you got so incensed over something so trivial. major replyguy vibes

www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?…

www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?…

www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8tPpS…

These are just off the top of my head. I could look for many more examples if I wanted. but I have other stuff to do tbh
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