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Small Penises and Fast Cars: Evidence for a Psychological Link
- 1MachineElf 4y agoHere's my theory for a physiological link: Larger genitalia necessitates wider legroom. Wider legroom means a bigger vehicle. Bigger vehicle means more weight and wind resistance - negative factors against car speed. As penis size approaches infinity, comfort in speed-optimized cars decreases.
- Imnimo 4y agoAlso we shouldn't discount the aerodynamic properties of the penis itself.
- mbfg 4y agoi don't ever leave the driveway.
- lttlrck 4y agoOversized truck drivers love this theory.
- autoexec 4y agoWhich is where it falls apart. If we're going with generalizing and stereotyping people based on their cars, then in my experience people who feel the need for giant vehicles are even more insecure than the fancy car folk. Huge trucks and Hummers absolutely give off small dick energy. It just screams "I'm overcompensating", while a lot of the fast/exotic car people are older and it seems like they just like to show off their wealth. They both tend to drive like assholes, but the needlessly oversized truck/SUV crowd are far more common on the roads.
- redeeman 4y ago"needlessly oversized" and then "SUV" and "truck" (by which I assume is meant regular pickup)" seems to be the opinion that can only be held by someone who never/rarely actually does transport beyond oneself/few passengers :) pssst.. there are a great many legitimate activities beyond going to purchase pumpkin spice latte or to the microbrewery (no, I dont own, nor have I ever owned such a vehicle)
- acdha 4y agoWouldn’t “needlessly” exclude the ~5-10% of people who regularly need those vehicles to do something a smaller vehicle cannot? Driving around the U.S. is really weird because there are so many people driving pickup trucks which are twice as big as their 90s counterparts, and they’re almost always in pristine condition but once you get far enough away from the wealthy suburbs you find non-cosplay farmers driving either much smaller vehicles (which get 2-3 times the mileage) or battered trucks which are clearly heavily used. (I’m obviously biased here but that’s from having gone furniture shopping at IKEA a couple hours ago and watching some guy with an $80k truck with a lift kit & extended cab who was struggling to tie some boxes in the short bed with the gate down, which would’ve fit in my Subaru without any thought at all.)
- autoexec 4y agoIf someone has a genuine need for a pickup truck then by definition it's not a needlessly large vehicle. I've known large dog owners, farmers, and handymen who had good reason for their large SUVs and pickup trucks. I also know someone who had no reason for a truck but got it for free as a "Hand me down". Stereotypes don't always apply, but sometimes they're true often enough to persist regardless. I'm fine with making snap judgements about the anonymous ass on the highway who cuts me off dangerously to get an extra car or two ahead, but I'm a lot more careful about the assumptions I've made when dealing a person for more than just a "passing" moment.
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- blahblahbloo 4y agoI still stick by the: "I want to bone hot gold diggers psychological link". But it still remains to be proven. Even if though there is plenty of evidence out there.
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- completebsori 4y agoIt's too bad no women were part of the study's author list. I feel like there is not enough diversity for the study's authors to seem credible.
- numtel 4y agoA McSweeney's reader? https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/im-here-to-buy-a-car-that-will-compensate-for-my-enormous-vagina https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/im-here-to-buy-a-car-tha...
- pvaldes 4y agoYup, If people with small penises drive faster, women should reach escape velocity from this planet. Is a scientific fact now
- metadat 4y agoWhat if you like sports cars not for the status but because you find them more fun to drive and we're scarred during youth when you received an incredibly frustratingly slow first vehicle? I suppose it's only a link, not a hard and fast rule (bad pun intended). Also, are people really so dimwitted / easily manipulated / insecure they can be reliably made to question their manhood based on a single data point, and while participating in a study, no less? This aspect seems a bit suspicious to me. For those who are concerned with such matters, extensive comparative information is abundantly available on the Internet.
- Dylan16807 4y ago> What if you like sports cars not for the status but because you find them more fun to drive and we're scarred during youth when you received an incredibly frustratingly slow first vehicle? Sounds fun! But they're trying to find connections that happen in large groups, not proclaiming that every purchaser of something had the exact same reasons.
- msla 4y agoThey're frauds posting a fraudulent paper on a pseudoscience website.
- zinekeller 4y ago> They're frauds posting a fraudulent paper on a pseudoscience website. Please explain why a) the authors are fraudulent, and b) why is the website pseudoscience?
- msla 4y agoGood scientists don't body shame, and good publication venues don't publish body shaming.
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- tamaharbor 4y agoDid I tell you my first car out of college was a Volkswagen Rabbit?
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- msla 4y agoBody-shaming with the veneer of academic rigor.
- mrlonglong 4y agoSo Greta Thunberg was correct about "smalldickenergy" after all. Kudos.
- gardenhedge 4y agoWhat was her email again?
- rad_gruchalski 4y agoTeslas are the faster than many super and hyper cars, apparently.
- ashwagary 4y agoAs much as I try to avoid the topic of Tate (and all other so called influencers), from what I gather he's a 6'2" African kickboxer that had 2 or 3 serious girlfriends living with him simultaneously. Attention whore sure but I have a feeling he's the opposite of any "smalldick" formula.
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- bitwize 4y agoComing soon to Hackernews: An actual "Unix beards = toxic masculinity" study just like in Cryptonomicon.
- pvaldes 4y agoTo start, lets remind that if there is any evidence in the article, it will cover just a pool of English speaking men. I predict that will be extrapolated shamelessly and happily to half of the humanity in any case...by, hum... "evidence" says what we want to hear Evidence that can be easily destroyed by logic and observation. Because this is the kind of clown science that we promoted. "Science" must be funny! (and stupid) currently