so i’m reading this: http://www.buzzfeed.com/louispeitzman/why-one-man-decided-to-share-his-smaller-than-average-penis

and I can’t help but think about thin privilege. it’s weird, but if you replace every reference to this man’s “insecurity” to what many (though admittedly not all) women are insecure about, it could literally be the exact same story. even down to the detail of him trying to increase the size of his penis, multiple times, all to no avail. but because everyone knows that attempts to increase one’s penis size are futile, no one questions this guy giving up.

they don’t say, “Well, I’m worried about your <sexual> health. I mean, who will ever sleep with you?" they don’t say, "Well, you’re simply not trying hard enough. If you hung more weights from your package, it would definitely be larger.”

People are willing to make concessions for this guy’s insecurity (and presumably, the rest of the men in the world with similarly sized genitalia). But if you’re fat, you’re unhealthy. You’re not trying hard enough. No one will love you. No one will sleep with you.

People don’t know that not everyone can be thin. People don’t know that fat doesn’t equal unhealthy. And people don’t care that genetics are almost as much to blame for weight as they are height (and I’m presuming penis size? I don’t actually know about this. I’m just guessing.).

And I wonder if people (men especially, in this case) understood how much genetics play into all of these things, if things would get better. If women would stop starving themselves for the sake of someone’s boner. If women would love themselves as they are. and if people could stop judging people for things that are absolutely not within their control. (but more importantly, not judge people at all–regardless of whether or not their appearance is within their control).