“ Phallic symbols, except when identified within excruciating scholarly 20th century texts, no longer have anything but B-list cocktail-party-calibre meaning; they’re just excuses for dudes with arrested development to see sex — either their own hetero dude sex or their own homo dude sex — everywhere they look, and to point it out, and to crack jokes about it, and to remind you and themselves that the collective phallus owns your ass. Because let’s face it, when it comes to genital mythology, all you got is vagina dentata, and no government ever built a monument to glorify that ”
Twisty says: seeing “phallic symbols” everywhere just reinforces the idea of big bad super-penises. So, don’t.