dick pic critic

Posted on: Tue, 01/14/2014 - 11:28 By: Tom Swiss

For the record: I have never taken, much less send to anyone, a "dick pic". And, guys? Sending a lady an unsolicited picture of your man parts is not interesting to them. But this is interesting.

What I've Learned From My Side Job Critiquing Dick Pics (The Hairpin)

... I don’t want to send anyone’s ego out of the stratosphere by saying that, but it’s not really an exaggeration: after I received that photo, invigorated and shot through with dopamine, I tweeted about how rare and encouraging it was to receive a decent dick pic. That sparked an online conversation about how to improve the dismal state of dick pics—I would classify them as generally dull, artless and unsolicited—and that lead to my rise as the Internet’s most beloved dick pic critic.

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All in all, Critique My Dick Pic is proving to be an extremely positive and humbling project. It’s fun and light, but it’s also confirmed to me just how fragile men are; how crumblingly insecure and self-conscious so many of them are about their bodies. That’s very human and understandable, and it’s a terrain with which most women are familiar, but men in particular are exhorted to grin and bear their body issues rather than talk about them.