Is it I alone who has been unaware of how very many dicks there are floating around in cyberspace? I mean actual dicks, penises. I had no idea! But on chatting with women who use online social media sites, I learn that countless scads of dicks are being launched into the web every day, and splashing down, unsolicited, on their cell phone screens.
Nor are these dicks circumscribed according to app type or purpose. The app I use, for instance, is a language sharing app. People from various countries, wanting to learn and practice a new language interact here, learning one language and sharing their own. Where do dicks fit in?
Well, they don't fit. They intrude. A woman will be contacted by a man, a very few niceties will be exchanged, and then the dick will arrive. Or an invitation to do phone sex, or video sex. Or all of the above. Though none of these things has been invited by the woman.
How very strange. Am I impossibly puritanical to think that a language sharing app ought to be used for sharing language? How does it occur to these men to bring their dicks to this particular site? Or is it because on the internet there is no safe space whatsoever, no safety in a crowd, no safety where you are, for here you are everywhere. The door is always open and can be locked only after the dick has invaded, and it must be locked again for every new dick, as well as those who merely change their profile and revisit the scene.
I wonder as well what makes these men think that women want to receive random dick pictures. Do they believe that something about their own dick makes it stand out in the crowd? Don't they all look pretty much the same? Personally, I am convinced that women are much more intrigued by well chosen words than they are by random dicks. A dick does not speak. It just stands there. If you're going to misuse a site for sexual pursuit, shouldn't it be done with a bit more class and sophistication?
But then maybe this, like rape, is not really about sex at all. Maybe it is about power, insult, invasion, disrespect, underlying anger and insecurity.
Nor are these dicks circumscribed according to app type or purpose. The app I use, for instance, is a language sharing app. People from various countries, wanting to learn and practice a new language interact here, learning one language and sharing their own. Where do dicks fit in?
Well, they don't fit. They intrude. A woman will be contacted by a man, a very few niceties will be exchanged, and then the dick will arrive. Or an invitation to do phone sex, or video sex. Or all of the above. Though none of these things has been invited by the woman.
How very strange. Am I impossibly puritanical to think that a language sharing app ought to be used for sharing language? How does it occur to these men to bring their dicks to this particular site? Or is it because on the internet there is no safe space whatsoever, no safety in a crowd, no safety where you are, for here you are everywhere. The door is always open and can be locked only after the dick has invaded, and it must be locked again for every new dick, as well as those who merely change their profile and revisit the scene.
I wonder as well what makes these men think that women want to receive random dick pictures. Do they believe that something about their own dick makes it stand out in the crowd? Don't they all look pretty much the same? Personally, I am convinced that women are much more intrigued by well chosen words than they are by random dicks. A dick does not speak. It just stands there. If you're going to misuse a site for sexual pursuit, shouldn't it be done with a bit more class and sophistication?
But then maybe this, like rape, is not really about sex at all. Maybe it is about power, insult, invasion, disrespect, underlying anger and insecurity.
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