Men’s Studies: Why do men like stuff like cigars that are phallic symbols?

Question

Quote from a man in the movie, "GI JANE":

C.O. Salem: "What I resent, Lieutenant, is some politician using my base as a test tube for her grand social experiment. What I resent, is the sensitivity training that is now mandatory for all of my men. The ob-gyn I now have to keep on staff just to keep track of your personal pap smears. But most of all what I resent, is your perfume, however subtle, interfering with the scent of my fine three-dollar-and-seventy-nine-cent cigar, which I will put out this instant if the phallic nature of it happens to offend your GOD **** FRAGILE SENSIBILITIES! Does it?

(Never realized how many phallic symbols men seem addicted to till this dude said this)
http://imdb.com/title/tt0119173/quotes

Answer 1

That's really funny and interesting. The thing that prevents me from going all the way with the phallic symbol is that ... the phallus is an _object_, a thing that sticks out and obnoxiously announces itself. A vagina, on the other hand, is a hole, a sort of vacuum (though I don't really like to describe it as "nothing" because it isn't; it's certainly something). It's just difficult to make a a useable *object* out of a vulva shape in order to make a symbol out of it in the first place. I guess we sort of have vulvar symbols, like folds of lunchmeat or sandwiches or maybe folds of lettuce.

In short, you could imagine that almost anything remotely long and firm, like my Twix candy bar, is a phallic symbol, but it's much more difficult to decide what might make a vaginal symbol. I think we need a floppy flaccid penis symbol, like a piece of rope or something.

Answer 2

Pretty cool quote... Haven't seen the movie.

But, yeah, I'm not addicted to any phallic symbols, thus your question is invalid. Actually no guy I know is addicted to any phallic symbols and none my friends even smoke because it's nasty.

I bet if they made cigs that resembled vaginas instead of poles then people would still smoke them all the same. Although I have no clue how to make them such a shape and still be functional.

Answer 3

I like cigars because of the taste. I used to not be into them since I only ever tried cheap ones, but since my father brought me fine Cubans I got hooked. Besides how do you smoke a hole o.O ?

Answer 4

This is a wild guess. I agree that sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, but mayyyyybe its because walking around with a big fat cigar is sort of like having an extension of their penis, and its a way to show off their male power???
Yea, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

Answer 5

Freud had some serious issues, drug abuse being one of many; he was nuttier that squirrel's nest in January. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

Answer 6

Don't forget about many sorts of flowers, skirts, dream catchers, purses, window treatments, bedskirts & beds covered with ruffled pillows, wreaths, Georgia O'Keefe paintings, all of which are vaginal or labial. (And the dried wreaths are symbolic of...?)

Answer 7

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

Answer 8

Well Bill Clinton is very fond of his method of flavoring and marinating his cigars.