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Climate activist Greta Thunberg explained the slang term ‘small dick energy’ pretty perfectly when she had Twitter beef with Andrew Tate recently.

The misogynistic social media personality was dissed by Thunberg when she responded to his tweet about his “33 cars and their enormous emissions” by referring to his “small dick energy”.

Side note: many came to believe that it was this Twitter exchange that landed Tate in a Romanian prison for sex trafficking charges.

Anyway, in case you don’t get what ‘small dick energy’ is about, it describes people who are petty, and insecure, and cover it up with hollow swagger.

yes, please do enlighten me. email me at smalldickenergy@getalife.com https://t.co/V8geeVvEvg

— Greta Thunberg (@GretaThunberg) December 28, 2022

Somewhere along the line, a man who flexes with flashy cars has generally become linked to a deep-down need to over/compensate for something.

This has merely been a thing people say but now a group of researchers from University College London have put this theory to the test and have proved that there is actually a correlation.

The researchers designed an experiment with male participants, per News24, in which each group was given false information about the average penis size, leading some members to believe that they had a relatively small or large penis compared to others.

They were then asked to rate the desirability of sports cars, and yes, those who felt they had small penises rated sports cars as more desirable.

“Is there any truth to the cliché that a man driving an expensive sports car is compensating for his male inadequacy? The psychological literature suggests two hypotheses why they might be linked,” it further reads.

The first theory suggests that males may use sports cars or luxury goods in the same way a peacock uses its colourful feathers to compete for and attract mates.

The other theory suggests that buying fancy cars is a way to make up for low self-esteem and increase feelings of self-worth.

In this regard, having a small penis could contribute to low self-esteem, and buying a sports car may be just this thing to compensate for what someone may feel they are lacking.

In essence, “as men aged past 29, the effect of penis size on the desire for sports cars grew stronger,” the study noted.

“Self-reported penis size is notoriously unreliable (King, 2021), and even an objective study of penis size and sports car ownership would also be limited to correlational evidence. In this experiment, however, we were able to find a casual psychological link between fast cars and small penises for the first time,” the paper reads.

Indeed, putting fast cars and small penises in the same vein raises “intriguing questions for future research,” the paper states.

[source:news24]