Body shaming is unacceptable, even if directed at vile people: an intersex critique of “small dick energy”
Thank you to co-authors Bo Laurent and Magda Rakita, and editor Brian D Earp, for collaborating on this article published by the University of Oxford Practical Ethics blog.
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We love Greta Thunberg. But we were hurt and disappointed that she chose “small dick energy” as a pejorative in her recent Twitter exchange with the self-proclaimed “misogynist influencer” Andrew Tate. This particular choice of words was not, in our view, the self-evidently praiseworthy retort that many progressive commentators took it to be.
This article has been kindly published by the University of Oxford Practical Ethics blog. It is written by Morgan Carpenter, bioethicist; co-founder and executive director, Intersex Human Rights Australia; Magda Rakita co-founder and executive director, Fundacja Interakcja (Poland), and co-chair, OII Europe; and Bo Laurent, founder, Intersex Society of North America. Thank you to Brian D Earp for editorial help.