In a sort of rebuke to men who complain that they’re “too big” to wear condoms, one Swedish gal pulled a condom over her leg and up nearly to her knee, and posted a pic documenting this feat to Instagram. This pic:
Naturally, some men have reacted with outrage. When the pic was posted recently on WomensRightsNews, a host of dudes popped up in the comments to point out that not all men are comfortable in regular sized condoms. (Uh, I’m pretty sure that’s why they make bigger sizes, dudes.)
And then there was this guy.
Yes, this is his response to a picture of a woman’s leg with a condom stretched over it.
But as it turns out, he was just getting started. Responding to one commenter who took issue with his, er, analysis, he spat forth these giant gobs of text. I won’t summarize them, because, honestly, my eyes glazed over after about the third word in ALL CAPS.
Another commenter raised an interesting point:
Huh. That must be a reference to the legendary Agent Orange files. I guess Jayme is a reader of A Voice for Men?
He then moved on to some, er, art criticism, I guess?
For what it’s worth, dude, Andy Warhol made a painting using his own semen, as did Marcel Duchamp. And this guy made a portrait of Justin Bieber out of other people’s pubic hair. So go wild, dude, stick wool up your urethra in the name of dude art!
Jayme then went on to address the wage gap issue, and then that whole “turning men into nothing more than egg fertilizers” thing that is apparently the grand aim of feminism.
I just have a couple of questions.
How exactly did Jayme Crandall become a “Top Commenter?” I think something might have gone wrong with the selection process here.
Also, why are so many angry dudes reading something called WomensRightsNews?
Ok, that’s last question was a joke. OF COURSE angry dudes are reading WomensRightsNews. Hell, there’s probably no more effective way to reel in the angry dude demographic than to mention feminism online. They are drawn to articles about feminism with the same powerful mystical force that draws cats to paper bags:
H/T — Sunnysombrera, who posted a link to this whole wondrous discussion in the comments here. Thanks!
Matt, dude, if you’re not that into sex, just don’t have sex. But don’t hold on to all these crazy ideas that your penis is so super-duper special and powerful and dangerous that penetrating a woman with it will damage her body for life. The vagina is actually pretty resilient, yo.
In fairness, having sex with Matthew might cause permanent emotional damage.
This is a true and fair point, Katz. I rest my case.
How is sex damaging my body?
Can we ban Matthew? He just shows up and flings poo in all the threads before running away. He isn’t even the fun kind of troll because he never responds to anything.
I think he just does it to get people to read his blog (so he can convince humans to quit having sex). I’d rather not give him the publicity.
Ok. This is of course absolutely ridiculous of the MRM for so many reasons: gender roles and expectations we put on men lead men to suicide and early death, and they focus on women making fun of condoms??? All right, go ahead, but then they forfeit the right to dismiss manspreading as whining. You can’t have your cake and eat it.
But we are also throwing out the baby with the bathwater in a sense. There IS a real sense in which society (both men and women) feel that male insecurities, in particular sexual ones, are fair game for ridicule. This incident, the 90s hit Short-dick man – this is everywhere. Just because the men that feel inadequate are not talking about it as much as women do, does not mean they are not suffering. In fact, bottled up frustration can end up hurting others as well.
The reason? Gender roles. Men as strong, men as performers. Those which help a visible minority of men to dominate important positions in society. As a gay man growing up in the 80s, before the enormous progress and mainstreaming of gays in Western society, I am convinced that, although we may not be aware of it, men have as much, if not more, to gain from removing the constraints of gender roles than women. I know, both feminists and MRMs will probably beg to differ, but that is my experience.
THAT is why although this seems like whining when compared to the huge issues women face, we feminists should decry this sort of demeaning behavior with the same verve as the MRM. It is part of a harmful system that may have been helpful in the Stone Age to ensure the survival of the species, but that now prevent us from being fully human. We keep telling the MRM that what ails men is gender roles. Well as the movement with the driving momentum on gender issues, let’s do something about not some, but all of the harmful ways in which they manifest themselves.
I don’t think that using the bullshit “I’m too big for a condom” excuse instead of actually trying to find a condom that fits you counts as a sexual insecurity. I think that it counts as a tactic to convince other people to have unsafe sex with you.
I’m all for getting rid of toxic gender roles that cause men to be insecure, but insecurity is not an excuse for all manner of bad behavior.
Yeah, WWTH, freeing men from those roles would be a good thing. However, if we’re poking fun at men who are whining about how they can’t score an HB8 or higher, we’re not poking fun at their sexual insecurities. We’re poking fun at their sense of entitlement and their rage when they don’t get what they want from women. Maybe those feelings do stem from insecurity–they almost definitely stem from men’s desire to prove their manhood–but no amount of insecurity justifies their rage at women who won’t fuck them.
Seconding alaisvex! There’s a British company, true fit or something like that, that sells a whole range of condom sizes, with a handy printout to use to measure your junk. For the exceptionally well endowed, this may be a better option than dealing with the ring at the end causing numb cock syndrome. But I’m not buying, for a second, that being too big for off the shelf condoms to be comfortable causes insecurity — more like bragging about just how big it is!
And, regardless the size, you should be using rubbers. So go find a hat that fits, because you shouldn’t be playing without a rubber hat on! (Best. Euphemism. EVAR!)
It’s TheyFit apparently — http://www.theyfit.co.uk/ — so then havers of extra large penises, print the thing, measure your junk, and order some properly fitted condoms!
I never knew how much Misandry!TM was involved in using easily donned protection from the transmission of many STDs from a potentially asymptomatic partner…
Swedishfish, we’re not laughing at dudes for legit having problems finding condoms. We’re laughing at misogynists whose first reaction to a woman saying there are condoms for every size is to accuse her of wanting to kill all men and other such malarkey.
Seconding everything that contrapangloss said.