I almost exclusively keep up to date on current events using r/news, r/wordnews, and r/politics. I’m going to describe a pattern I’ve noticed with highly-upvoted, popular comments on these subs, especially politics and news.

Often when complimenting good, strong men such as Anthony Fauci or Barack Obama, someone will make a comment like “some real big dick energy with this one” or “wow, I don’t know how he can even find pants that fit with the gigantic dick he’s carrying around”.

When insulting bad, weak men such as Donald Trump or Ted Cruz, someone will make a comment like “no wonder he’s feeling insecure, having a tiny dick tends to do that to a man” or “hmm, he must be compensating for certain... inadequacies”. Also these comments are often extended to right-leaning men in general.

I always thought these comments were toxic as fuck and harmful to the males reading them. It doesn’t surprise me that there are people who might make these comments - what does surprise me is that the comments are accepted and popular in left-leaning spaces! Most of these people would not be cool with female body shaming, and in fact I never see highly upvoted female body shaming comments on these subs.

I want to just shake them and get it in their head that penis size is randomly distributed - some excellent men will have small penises, and some abhorrent men will have huge penises, and that doesn’t matter. A man’s quality is not correlated to his genitalia. And when you body shame like this, you’re causing psychological harm to good men.