Small Dicks
I had some fun at the fact that my traffic has increased a bit due to being ranked high on Google for the search small dicks. Seriously, people google that? Like you don’t get enough sent to your inbox you have to go searching for it?
But this ain’t a post about that, it’s a post about this:
There is an obscure publishing doctrine known as “the small penis rule.” As described in a 1998 New York Times article, it is a sly trick employed by authors who have defamed someone to discourage their targets from filing lawsuits. As libel lawyer Leon Friedman explained to the Times, “No male is going to come forward and say, ‘That character with a very small penis, ‘That’s me!'”
Heh. Via Terry, who apparently thought of me while reading that.
December 15th, 2006 at 11:26 am
Speaking of small packages, over at Lean Left KTK writes about Michael Crichton’s battle with a book reviewer he doesn’t care for. Can’t we all just get along?