Performance Reviews Pertaining to the Inadequacy of My Article on Ancient Penis Size
“The lack of female genitalia in their artwork? Dude, in case you missed the memo, women didnt matter a whole lot.”
“Would have been better if the author only posted the two or three sentences of substance. The meandering and baseless opinions added nothing.”
“You just couldnt resist it, could you…Talk about fragility…”
“They [ancient Greeks] knew everything about sex. But there were not any sex manuals. Or biology lessons. They fucked around and fought for who they loved. Male and female. They never got destroyed by fire like Sodom and Gomorrah. Or like and Nagasaki or Hiroshima.”
“Most penises change size. If you are healthy man or have had sex with one, odds are you’ve noticed.”
“Hmmm…. was fine until “androcentric” and the ever-popular “Patriarchy”, and then I started thinking, “Gee, this has gotta be the most convoluted progressive excuse I’ve ever seen for either classic feminist ‘penis envy’, or male ‘overcompensation’?! ;-p”
“Reads like a whole lot of nothing […].”
“The rather full-on nudity of Greek male statues is pretty much just another indicator of a male-dominated culture, one where men were expected to be strong and powerful where it mattered. Add to that that, on occasion, these statues were actually dressed from time to time, and a lot of your thesis kinda goes sailing out a sixth floor window.”
“Quite simply, he [Bill Beck] does not have nostalgia [for the values of antiquity] because he refers to AΓΑΛΜΑ as STATIC. The Hellenes still divide the term “AΓΑΛΜΑ” with ΣΤΑΤΙΚΟ even today in their diachronic language, because ΑΓΑΛΜΑ is NOT STATIC for them And there is the great confusion among the well-meaning scholars especially those who has recently embraced the straitjacket of “political correctness ”, which confuses even more the thread of Ariadne[.]”
“Hey man! These Greeks were the people who told some of the best stories[!]”
Bill Beck misses many memos. He completed his PhD at the University of Pennsylvania in February. He tweets Greek etymologies @GreekEtymology. You can find links to the rest of his unsatisfying corpus here.
