Or their breast size? Or their makeup? Or if they're gaining weight?
I often see double standards related to this. Women can make a joke about a guy's penis size, which is ostensibly related to the amount of pleasure a man may give a woman (notice the use of the word "ostensibly"!) and thereby can be a very personal comment in either direction, good or bad. But a guy gets creamed (really, no pun intended...) if he makes a joke about or criticizes a woman's looks, weight, breast size, age, etc (which I think has always sort of been considered fair game by either side, at least in familiar company, at least weight, age and adding hair status when coming from women).
At least it often seems so when the media picks up stories like Barbie dolls needing to change because of the outcry that "she" has too tiny of a waist and too wide hips, that it's not natural, etc, and therefore creating unrealistic expectations of women for men. Our oldest's nickname (well, one of many) is "Barbie". She has a figure almost exactly like a Barbie doll.
I don't hear guys going around and complaining because they don't have the tight muscular build of Ken while their women chide them about their growing beer bellies
In today's culture (or at least the US as my primary base of experience, but I think this is true in many parts of the world, to varying degrees) it seems to me there may be a push for women to be rougher with men (I'm talking in a social sense, get your mind out of the gutter y'all
) but sometimes there is a sensitivity and an unwillingness to take as good as given. And while men are being urged to curb their roughness with women in both thought and deed, and women increase their roughness with men, it can sometimes cause at best mixed signals, at least to those of us neanderthals that came from a world far different than that of today.
I'm finding that certain cultural memes, as open-minded as I truly consider myself, can be very hard to break. And I'm finding myself surprised, very often, at which ones are the difficult ones, which often wouldn't have been what I thought even 10 years ago.
Sorry for getting of topic here. And I wasn't trying to bitch about any perceived unfairness of women attacking men (which I didn't see here), just a comment as to why men may be more sensitive to a woman talking about their penis size in a possibly unflattering manner than a man asking a woman's age.