Small dick problems
Masculine entitlement as rhetorical strategy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9240455 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Allison L Rowland (0000-0002-9290-3615, Associate Professor of Performance & Communication Arts, St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 109 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 26-47 |
| Publication date | 2023-01-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Quarterly Journal of Speech (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0033-5630 • E-ISSN: 1479-5779 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00335630.2022.2136739 |
| OpenAlex | W4309332443 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
This essay aims to sharpen the term entitlement for critical scholars by positing entitlement as a rhetorical strategy of hierarchy maintenance. The Reddit community r/SmallDickProblems, intended to provide support for men with small penises, furnishes an appropriate case study for threatened masculinity employing entitlement claims to maintain status. Abetted by the affordances of scale and anonymity associated with networked platforms, the men at r/SmallDickProblems assert affective and epistemic entitlements to recoup what they perceive to be a natural gendered hierarchy. Content advisory: This essay examines discourses concerning misogyny, transphobia, and suicide
Affordance · Anonymity · Economics · Entitlement (fair division) · Hierarchy · Linguistics · Masculinity · Political science · Rhetorical question · Sociology · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Citations per year | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |