I've written a lot of blogs about men's issues and what should be expected of us but I've avoided one topic for fear of it sounding a little silly. And that topic is men's obsession with their own genitalia.
No, I'm not talking about gay men, I'm talking about straight men and their nearly constant use of the phrase: "It takes balls" or insults that revolve around the size or apparent lack of a penis. For some reason I have yet to really understand heterosexual males are obsessed with using their genitals as proof of their masculinity all the while terrified of that very same thing. Yes. TERRIFIED. It's a paradox that the same kind of men who hang rubber testicles on the trailer hitches of their pickups will freak the fuck out when they see a naked male in a comic book (i.e. "Batdick.") or other media. You'd think these guys would stand up and applaud at another man's endowment but nope. As much as they brag about their own, they absolutely can not stand seeing another man's.
While the obsession with measuring their own penises is difficult at best to comprehend the fear of seeing another is far easier to explain. Homophobia. Men are afraid that if they see another man's genitals they will either become gay or be perceived as being gay if they act with anything other than revulsion. As Matthew Shepard can attest, or he could if he were still alive the most masculine of males hates homosexuality like it's an army of Russians looking to invade. In fact many of them honestly believe that gay men are at some point going to ransack this entire country and force every heterosexual male to become gay but that's beyond the scope of this blog post. While it should go without saying I can assure you fellas that seeing a dick will NOT make you into a gay man. If you want proof take a look:
Are you gay? I'm willing to guess you aren't. But I'm also willing to guess yo're having one of two reactions. 1: You want that thing out of your face and you're supremely pissed that I "forced you" to look at it or 2: You could care less that I posted my dick pic but it would take a lot of effort. We all need to work our way over to number 2 because reaction number one is not only unhealthy for us it's dangerous for literally everyone around us.
In fact the measurements by which we judge our self worth should have absolutely NOTHING to do with our cocks and/or our balls. It's a bullshit metric by which we fool ourselves into thinking that we are somehow "more" or "less" of whatthefuckever than our peers. Not only that but how we use those same genitalia and how often should also have absolutely nothing to do with how we measure our self worth. If we're going to use any metric at all it should be those things that are most personal to us. The things that matter most to us and we should also keep in mind that masculinity is not a contest. No one on this Earth is more or less of a man than you are for any reason at all. Especially not the .0000001" longer their penis is than yours. There are many aspects of who we are that are far more important than our sexual prowess and we have nothing to prove in terms of how manly we are to anyone. Its time we took our self worth back from those that try enforce unfair and unattainable standards on us. It's time we learned that being man is much more than just having a pair of balls.