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[–] ada@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Sure, an unexpected dick is distracting, no matter who is involved. It might break your concentration, make you feel embarrassed, turn you on, or any one of a thousand reactions, none of which are homophobic.

But "your eyes start to bleed" and "your pupils dilate from the trauma", "roll for therapy", "take psychic damage", those are a different story... The punchline there is that a man seeing another mans dick is traumatic, and that's only "funny" because homophobia.

[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

But “your eyes start to bleed” and “your pupils dilate from the trauma”, “roll for therapy”, “take psychic damage”, those are a different story… The punchline there is that a man seeing another mans dick is traumatic, and that’s only “funny” because homophobia.

Jesus Christ you are a caricature of why people don't take the left seriously.

  1. It's a joke, a silly joke. There's nothing homophobic about any of this. I have heard women make similar jokes about what awful trauma they experienced after seeing something they didn't want to see. It's just not a gendered thing, in this case, at all. I do understand that some men can also introduce homophobia into the equation, but I don't see any of that here. Just saying that you found seeing a big dick unexpectedly to be a deeply upsetting event is a perfectly realistic thing to make jokes about.
  2. It's literally a crime to expose your dick to a woman as a man, and a pretty serious one. It can get you put on a list for life, it can change your future if you do it once. "Break your concentration" is deliberately downplaying the seriousness that society allocates to it (when people are not making lighthearted and not-at-all-homophobic jokes), so that you can do your grandstanding.

That is all I will say on the matter. We're allowed to have a difference of opinion, I'm just stating mine which is disagreeing with your take on it.

[–] ada@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

We're allowed to have a difference of opinion

You're the one calling me a caricature for disagreeing with you. Pick a lane

[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 7 points 2 days ago

Fair enough, I shouldn't have gotten personal with it, sorry about that.