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Re: Small Penis Rule

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Post by techscruggs »

brookst wrote: post #4

Sigh. Reductionist thinking again. Yes, of course, if you literally say “small penis” the plaintiff would rightfully cite this history. But it’s not meant to be taken literally, like those are magic words. You say “he failed upwards, funded by family wealth and connections, despite everyone thinking he was an idiot who could barely string a sentence together” The point is to emphasize, even exaggerate, low-status neg…

This sounds like exactly the kind of thing that some with a small penis would say ...

Re: Small Penis Rule

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Post by draw_down »

fragmede wrote: post #17

Then again, money. > A jury in New Mexico awarded $412 million to a man who sued over what he said were unnecessary erectile dysfunction shots that decimated his penis On the one hand, now you're famous for having a dick that doesn't work, on the other hand, $412 million. https://amp.sacbee.com/news/nation-world/national/article296...

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Post by kps »

khurs wrote: post #18
conartist6 wrote: post #10

I'm sure South Park had no idea about any of this

It's pretty amazing that South Park hasn't been sued (or lost?) I wonder if Peter Thiel took umbrage at how South Park portrayed him recently [0] and is lurking in the shadows planning Gawker v2 [1] [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfSOC6-G044 [1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattdrange/2016/06/21/peter-thi...

> It's pretty amazing that South Park hasn't been sued (or lost?)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hustler_Magazine_v._Falwell

tl;dr:

> Hustler Magazine, Inc. v. Falwell, 485 U.S. 46 (1988), is a landmark decision by the Supreme Court of the United States in which the Court held that parodies of public figures, even those intending to cause emotional distress, are protected by the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.

Re: Small Penis Rule

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Post by projektfu »

zephen wrote: post #11
genxy wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It isn't the size of your tort, it is how you use it. Also, are men this easily manipulated? Yes.

Yes, I see you have produced a very small (re)tort, but arguably have used it well.

What's the smallest retort that can be blown? I wonder.

Re: Small Penis Rule

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Post by rsstack »

A Jewish comedian made a joke about how jews (only in the US*) were offended that Ferengi in Star Trek were based on them - "why would we assume these ugly greedy people are _us_?"

*Outside the US, it looks like the Ferengi are mocking American capitalist culture.

Re: Small Penis Rule

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Post by zephen »

projektfu wrote: post #24
zephen wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, I see you have produced a very small (re)tort, but arguably have used it well.

What's the smallest retort that can be blown? I wonder.

> I wonder.

I didn't, and still don't, but now I wonder why you wonder.

Re: Small Penis Rule

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Post by arijun »

rsstack wrote: post #25

A Jewish comedian made a joke about how jews (only in the US*) were offended that Ferengi in Star Trek were based on them - "why would we assume these ugly greedy people are _us_?" *Outside the US, it looks like the Ferengi are mocking American capitalist culture.

I think that is a bad example. I haven't heard of Jewish people being offended by Ferengi, but anti-Semitic depictions are very often exactly "ugly, greedy people" (just look at any Nazi propaganda). Once it becomes a common thread it works less as a defense.

I imagine "small hands" would similarly work poorly as a defense against a defamation suit from Trump: he doesn't have to claim he has small hands, only that he is often depicted as having them.

Re: Small Penis Rule

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Post by omoikane »

A related concept in Chinese is 對號入座:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E5%B0%8D%E8%99%9F%E5%85%A5%E...

An example might be some person A saying "only an idiot with this set of very specific negative attributes would do this thing". And then person B came out in the public saying they had been slandered by person A, thus indirectly admitting to having those very specific negative attirbutes.

Basically if person A invokes something like the small penis rule, it's often better for person B to stay quiet to avoid 對號入座.

Re: Small Penis Rule

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Post by arijun »

comrade1234 wrote: post #14

If you accuse someone (not me) of having a small penis (I don't) they (not me) don't have to show that they (not me) have a large penis (like me). Just the accusation they made (to you, not me) is slander enough. But I'd gladly drop-trousers in a court.

I don't think it would be me accusing you of having a small penis (since of course you don't). It's me accusing someone named romcade4321 of being a generally shitty person, and also having a small penis. If you think romcade4321 is a reference to you, you would have to prove the similarity between them and you (maybe by dropping your trousers in court?)

Re: Small Penis Rule

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Post by secondcoming »

rsstack wrote: post #25

A Jewish comedian made a joke about how jews (only in the US*) were offended that Ferengi in Star Trek were based on them - "why would we assume these ugly greedy people are _us_?" *Outside the US, it looks like the Ferengi are mocking American capitalist culture.

Is it true that the Ferengi were based on Jews? I suspected so, but then I also considered they may have been influenced by the Chinese.
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