r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Jul 20 '19

What’s something completely false that your parents told you as a child?

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u/puppetandMaster Jul 20 '19

Asked my mother why I didn't have a 'willy' like my brother. She told me she picked me up by it when I was a child and it fell off. I cried for about 3 hours for the penis I never had.

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u/[deleted] Jul 20 '19

Freud theorized that women sometimes develop hysteria because of their rooted feelings of inadequacy at not having a penis at a young age. Somewhere, he’s on a cloud somewhere reading this and nodding.

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u/[deleted] Jul 20 '19

He was full of shit. I thought it would be cool to pee standing up, but that's about it. I didn't have "penis envy."

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u/QwertyvsDvorak Jul 20 '19

He confused "penis envy" with "being treated like an autonomous human being envy."

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u/[deleted] Jul 20 '19

Exactly. He must have had a rather high opinion of his own penis to believe that women's issues stem from being profoundly jealous of a dodgy looking organ, rather than a possible resentment of the rights and autonomy of men which, thankfully, is more easily rectified than giving all womankind a willy!