What does it mean, why does it exist, and who and why do some or even many have it?
P.S. In general sense, male or otherwise, we don't just look at our sexual organs as something that we use to pee, right, including outside the themes of sex and sexuality?
I would say a woman who is butch probably has penis envy.
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The only thing that Freud got wrong was that he though it was women who experienced it!
"The only thing that Freud got wrong was that he though it was women who experienced it!"
Do you mean to say, he thought that it was ONLY women who experienced it?
No, I mean to say that penis envy is an entirely male thing.
If women and girls resent that men have certain advantages in life, well, that's not penis envy. That's just basic fairness.
I think I read in "The Handmaid's Tale" about penis envy being, at least sometimes, and at least in some, women, also being a thing/matter of some sort, apparently.
shareWell I read in college developmental psychology that it's one of Freud's many debunked theories!
Boys and girls were treated incredibly differently in Freud's day, he wanted to label or pathologize girls resenting the favoritism shown to their brothers and male classmates, instead of admitting that they had cause to be upset.
So Freud was biased and not a nice guy then? Or just flawed in his views on a big scale? And he didn't conduct a study but inserted his official and de-facto prejudiced thoughts into the matter and presented it as a valid argument?
I thought Sigmund Freud was a nice and intelligent and fair man, no?
Penis Envy the ones which may or may not exist where a man blames his small penis for the lack of confidence and taking some risks or the one where women think if I was a man I would have got the job or been further up the career ladder
shareLike with most Freudian psychology, it is often misconstrued. It's primarily a stage in sexual development, not a constant desire/feeling.
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