{"id":12955,"date":"2011-03-22T15:39:35","date_gmt":"2011-03-22T22:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=12955"},"modified":"2011-03-22T15:39:35","modified_gmt":"2011-03-22T22:39:35","slug":"tell-me-schatze-is-it-twue-what-they-say-about-the-way-you-people-are%e2%80%a6gifted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=12955","title":{"rendered":"Tell Me, Schatze, is it Twue What They Say About the Way You People Are\u2026Gifted?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I generally like\u00a0The Good Men Project<\/a>. They’re doing a good job on the important task of helping to redefine what masculinity is in the modern world. This is no mean feat; women have consciously and forcefully worked to expand the definition of feminine to include athletes as well as cheerleaders, CEOs as well as homemakers, politicians as well as PTA chairs. Men, contrawise, have generally avoided doing the hard work of similarly expanding maleness. And so it’s good that an online magazine will take a look at what it is to be a man in the 21st century, and give the answer that it’s more than just liking sports, drinking beer, and sleeping around.<\/p>\n

But while The Good Men Project has its heart in the right place, it still will occasionally go wildly off the rails. As it did today,\u00a0with this map<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Yes, that’s a map of the world, color-coded by average penis size.<\/p>\n

Now, there are two serious problems with this. The first is simple. As someone familiar with the care and operation of this equipment, I can tell you that it’s not the same size under all conditions. This makes an apples-to-apples comparison of size somewhat problematic, for obvious reasons. Unless these measurements were all done using the same methodology under similar laboratory conditions, they’re pretty meaningless. And somehow I doubt that.<\/p>\n

But even if all measurements were conducted in the same way, at similar states of arousal, in every country, so what? Who cares whose national penises are larger and whose are smaller? Am I supposed to look down on China or India because they have a low average penis size? Billions of Asians are testament to the fact that whatever the average penis size in that part of the world, they’re working just fine. Am I supposed to bow down in awe at the men of Congo, who have the world’s largest penises? Folks, I don’t care if I’d be endowed with one six feet long, I wouldn’t want to live in the Congo for any reason, and I’m willing to bet most Congolese men would agree with me.<\/p>\n

The fact is that penis size is as irrelevant to maleness as ear size, or index finger size. And ranking the size of penises around the world simply reinforces tired old myths. Just as I’m not going to measure the worth of nations based on the average woman’s bra size, I’m not going to measure them based on the average man’s penis size. There are far more important metrics — life expectancy, education, poverty — than this. This is a swing and a miss.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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