Found this subreddit today and it felt like a good place to share something that happened to me at work and that I’m genuinely confused by.

Earlier today my coworker read out loud a news headline that basically said “New study shows using anti-adhesive frying pans make penises smaller” to which I promptly replied “yeah that sounds like bullshit”.

I don’t recall all the details but basically a university in Italy examined 380 penises and found that the men from an area with a higher concentration of PCP (a chemical found in pans, towels and some other stuff) had penises 12.5% smaller than men who lived in areas with a smaller concentration of PCP.

To my limited scientific knowledge, the claims here still sound a bit ehhh and like they’re just trying to grab attention. I tried to say that this study was making big claims and without reading it and seeing how the researchers addressed external factors and formed their focus groups the whole thing sounded, well, bullshitty.

What followed were the weirdly most intense 15 of arguing in my time at this work place. My coworkers were really upset that I was trying to “discredit the scientists” and stated that this study could have big implications to the scientific world and that I didn’t known that it was bullshit! So I shouldn’t say that!

At that point I decided to shut up because what I genuinely thought was an innocuous discussion on an article about small dicks had gotten really heated and one of coworkers looked really red in the face SO MY QUESTION IS: Am I the asshole for saying this study was bullshit?

I know from a life of being me that I can sound quite brash at times but I’ve been really trying to hold that back for the past year and I thought? I was doing well? Maybe not.