okay so like...

I actually don't have any problem with the original secret here. I mean, I do think it's dismissive, but what the fuck. Everyone who writes sticky has heard "don't do that" at least once. It's just something most people don't get.

But that response, with the "disgusting fleshy human dick and nasty sweaty balls"? That I don't like. Because... eh. I keep trying to find a way to be charitable -- especially when I think people on the 'Net have a thing for not just letting people be snippy. I keep trying to remind myself that some people are asexual, or maybe queer with a squick, or whatever else.

But straight up calling penises and testicles "disgusting" and "nasty?" That strikes me as body-shaming, no matter how I slice it, and I'm not comfortable with that. "I don't like sex," "I'm a lesbian and not into men's junk," "I have a squick so it's easier to read about analogous robot bits than human (and/or a specific subset of human) bits" would all be fine with me.

But this? I really dunno. History is replete with examples of genitals being described as unclean and a source of shame. I have no problem with people not having interest in them or preferring robot genitals (actually, personally, reading and writing descriptions of "sticky" with a lot of fluids helped me over a "body fluid" squick of my own in the real world, so I get people having those squicks.) But shaming language about real human bodies, where it's worded as if penises and testicles are disgusting in themselves rather than something that a particular person finds uncomfortable to visualize or be around?

Ehhh. I can't get on board with that.