i know i can just go look it up but I feel slightly wronged by the crop here.
The small penis rule was referenced in a 2006 dispute between Michael Crowley and Michael Crichton. Crowley alleged that after he wrote an unflattering review of Crichton’s novel State of Fear, Crichton included a character named “Mick Crowley” in the novel Next. The character is a child rapist, described as being a Washington, D.C.–based journalist and Yale graduate with a small penis.
Power move
Michael Crichton and Michael Crowley
what kinda cartoony ass names. literally mario and wario, sauron and saruman
“In Nebraska Law Review: Bulletin, Professor Michael Conklin writes that the use of the small penis rule would be ineffective to defend against defamation lawsuits. The reasons given are that the statement that a person has a small penis can be taken as defamatory in itself; the use of the rule is effectively an admission that defamation did occur”
Not only those points, but there’s another obvious reason it couldn’t work, too.
For any libel case to be successful, the key premise is clearly to show “This person described in writing is obviously meant to be me”
Unless you are someone whose penis size is public knowledge, then describing it as big or small doesn’t contradict other identifying details because nobody knows how big it really is.
So you can safely say “I actually have an enormous penis, your honour, but the defendant, the writer, was likely unaware of this”
However, you are opening yourself up to perjury if the prosecution gets creative and proves your dick is small/below average.
Oh, absolutely. My line to the court was rather dramatised for effect :)
What you’d really argue is that since your penis size is not public knowledge, then no matter whether your actual penis is big or small, the writer’s description has no bearing on the ability of the public to recognise the person being defamed as clearly you. Therefore, the accuracy or inaccuracy of the size described in writing can be simply dismissed as immaterial, with no need to inspect your pants for the truth.
I like how it’s edit protected
