![]() ![]() They won the name game in everything from the "pro-life" moniker to the "states rights" euphemism. The GOP has been a master of political rhetoric since Donald Trump was a Democrat. Republicans understand well that language both builds and reflects our reality. Femininity itself is devalued along with everything that has historically, for better or worse, been associated with it - nurturing, love, affection, even peace. Women, effeminate men, and people who are somewhere between or outside those categories are reduced once more to lesser-thans who lack in contrast to big-handed manly men. By trafficking in these same insults, we strengthen the tiresome idea that femininity itself is unworthy. ![]() The candidates' insults traded on the idea that size speaks to masculinity and that masculinity equals power. Trump later defended his manly parts during a primary debate, assuring the country that "there's no problem. The innuendo about Trump's manhood was clear. ![]() "And you know what they say about men with small hands - you can't trust 'em," Rubio joked. About 157 million in the United States, in fact.Īs a candidate, Trump got into a pissing contest when he referred to his fellow candidate as " Little Marco Rubio," who responded by telling supporters that he may be smaller, but his hands are bigger. Of course, I can think of some other people who don't have balls. Indecline (also the group behind the "Rape Trump" mural) named their work, "The Emperor Has No Balls." The point was to emasculate Trump with an ode to the adage that having balls is akin to having courage, and a candidate without balls must be a coward. The highlight was the model's small penis and missing testicles. Freud.) That genital lack has often been thought to symbolize intellectual and moral deficiency and has provided a convenient way to justify women's second-class citizenship.ĭuring last year's campaign cycle, the art collective Indecline surreptitiously erected life-size statues of a naked Donald Trump in six cities across the country. And who "lacks" between their legs more than women? Historically, the whole idea gets a rundown in psychoanalytic literature, which reduces the vagina to a source of penis envy for women and castration anxiety for men. Making fun of Trump's small appendages belittles him on the basis that he is lacking in the penile department - aka that he is more "feminine."Īlso popular, and no less problematic, were signs that allude to gay sex as a form of taunting, like one sign I saw in New York that proclaimed, "Putin's butt boy not my President." When feminists use this narrative, we play into Trump's message that manliness is what matters, and that women and gay men are laughable.Ī small penis is derided because it means a lack between your legs. The small hands line is a tempting way to lash out at Trump, but there's a big problem: it is essentially woman-hating. The joke speaks to the cultural notion that a man's virility is equal to his strength, and that both can be measured by the size of his genitalia. The joke is that small hands mean a small something else, and that a small you-know-what is a sign of a man's weakness. "Keep your tiny hands off my rights," read another. ![]() "Big ovaries trump small hands," read one sign I kept bumping into at the Paris march. Like at any protest, much of the message was made through signs, quite a number of which played on what is possibly Trump's biggest sore spot - his small hands. Pictures from the Women's Marches on January 21 show a movement declaring that the future is female in the face of President Donald Trump's misogyny. ![]()
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