I don’t, no, not really. Make up is heavily advertised, and makeup companies have a vested interest in stoking those insecurities to increase their sales. On the dick-size side of things, you have a few surgeons I guess? Some scammy mobile game ads? But the vast, vast majority of people who aren’t fuck-it rich just live with it, the only viable market for that shit is other capitalists, which makes me inclined to think that dick-size insecurities are much more organic.
Hypothesis: if we abolish capitalism and make the transition to socialism and communism, people will still be self conscious about their dick-size, because this particular self-consciousness probably pre-dates society itself
Communism failed horribly, don’t put words in my mouth. Conspicuous consumption, planned obsolescence, manufactured demand, etc is taking longer, but it will fail too eventually.
Mutual, I didn’t think or mean to imply that you thought communism would solve penis disphoria, you could replace the word “communism” with any other system you like in that sentence, I was just trying to illustrate that the roots of being self-conscious of ones penis size likely have more primal causes than capitalism or any other economic system.
It’s actually from earlier than that (Locke, Smith yes), but it only became unmanageable after we found cheap energy in the industrial revolution, which made the human element mostly trivial.
Ngl, I frankly kinda doubt that who owns the means of production has any bearing on an individual’s self-consciousness regarding their penis size
Do you think the same about makeup? It is so easy to play with men’s insecurities too…
I don’t, no, not really. Make up is heavily advertised, and makeup companies have a vested interest in stoking those insecurities to increase their sales. On the dick-size side of things, you have a few surgeons I guess? Some scammy mobile game ads? But the vast, vast majority of people who aren’t fuck-it rich just live with it, the only viable market for that shit is other capitalists, which makes me inclined to think that dick-size insecurities are much more organic.
Hypothesis: if we abolish capitalism and make the transition to socialism and communism, people will still be self conscious about their dick-size, because this particular self-consciousness probably pre-dates society itself
Communism failed horribly, don’t put words in my mouth. Conspicuous consumption, planned obsolescence, manufactured demand, etc is taking longer, but it will fail too eventually.
Mutual, I didn’t think or mean to imply that you thought communism would solve penis disphoria, you could replace the word “communism” with any other system you like in that sentence, I was just trying to illustrate that the roots of being self-conscious of ones penis size likely have more primal causes than capitalism or any other economic system.
We had makeup thousands of years before capitalism.
What about penis implants and viagra?
Those come after. Capitalism is a late 18th century CE creation
It’s actually from earlier than that (Locke, Smith yes), but it only became unmanageable after we found cheap energy in the industrial revolution, which made the human element mostly trivial.
Smith wrote in the 18th century. Locke, as I recall, never did much with economics
Locke “invented” liberalism, which Adams, as a moral philosopher, concretized in practice.