i'm a machinist, and "turning" is something you do on a lathe, specifically using a cutting tool to make something skinnier, usually either metal (for me) or wood.
now, while it may not be the original intention, i think the metaphor of turning a girl/femoid on a lathe to form their new body actually works super well!!
"estrogen turns the body and the girl feminine as though an expert woodworker turns features in a seemingly unremarkable block of wood"
i do not know why i've been so flamboyant with my words as of late :))
This is an interesting idea but I think the metaphor doesn't hold up with wood. You can only really remove material when you turn wood on a lathe, but feminizing is about adding as much as it is about removing. I think something like the process for making brass instruments is more apt. They basically take a tube of metal and spin it on a lathe, then shape the material by bending it with various tools into the classic diverging nozzle shape, but generally don't remove material. I imagine it more just kind of pushing bits around to get the more feminine shape, like turning a tuba into a trombone or something.
that technique (and analogy) sounds super intriguing! i want to know more, but i wasn't able to find what you were talking about on the internet sadly. are there any articles/books/etc. you'd recommend?
Why is the knowledge that they were the other gender painful for trans people? Like, they are not now, but that was who they were before.
Tons I don't understand about gender dysphoria, like I understand there might be genetic/hormonal reasons why someone feels uncomfortable with their apparent gender? Or the other gender fits them more and they feel wrong.
Anyway, literally can't imagine feeling wrong about whatever gender I'm born with, since I would 100% be convinced by my parents to be whatever they think I should be, I only contemplated it later. Like, should I even be a guy? Then I shrugged, didn't find anything much.
I asked some trans and non-binary people, and their explanations and terminology was quite helpful and interesting.
Because many of us don't view ourselves as having ever been the other gender. I was never male, but I was strongly encouraged by society to present and act as though I was so I did. It’s not “painful” it’s incorrect and a frustrating assumption.
It makes it sound like I either chose to switch, or something happened that switched me. Neither are true. I have ALWAYS been female, I just didn’t allow myself to show that to anyone outwardly until I transitioned.
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Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 22 pts · 186d
"It's not magic. It's just chemistry."
kivihiili@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 17 pts · 186d
i'm a machinist, and "turning" is something you do on a lathe, specifically using a cutting tool to make something skinnier, usually either metal (for me) or wood.
now, while it may not be the original intention, i think the metaphor of turning a girl/femoid on a lathe to form their new body actually works super well!!
"estrogen turns the body and the girl feminine as though an expert woodworker turns features in a seemingly unremarkable block of wood"
i do not know why i've been so flamboyant with my words as of late :))
TotallynotJessica@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 13 pts · 186d
who knows, but I'm not gonna stop you :3
applebusch@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 185d
This is an interesting idea but I think the metaphor doesn't hold up with wood. You can only really remove material when you turn wood on a lathe, but feminizing is about adding as much as it is about removing. I think something like the process for making brass instruments is more apt. They basically take a tube of metal and spin it on a lathe, then shape the material by bending it with various tools into the classic diverging nozzle shape, but generally don't remove material. I imagine it more just kind of pushing bits around to get the more feminine shape, like turning a tuba into a trombone or something.
kivihiili@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 185d
that technique (and analogy) sounds super intriguing! i want to know more, but i wasn't able to find what you were talking about on the internet sadly. are there any articles/books/etc. you'd recommend?
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 185d
Wtf, you unironically used femoid and didn't get downvoted to hell.
kivihiili@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 185d
oh lovely 4chan
i suppose "femby" works to an extent too :)
WeLoveCastingSpellz@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 185d
Because it just looks weird and I couldn't even tell if it was men at as misogyni or something I am not getting
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 185d
eh, words are made up, you can just assign any meaning to them that you like
JennyLaFae@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 15 pts · 186d
If I knew then what I know now I would have been able to start DiY with farm supplies
Also hilariously, you can buy estrogen from chewy dot com.
carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 12 pts · 186d
…huh.
well if they ever crack down on DIY sources i’ll know where to look, but tbh 1mg seems really low 😅
i guess you could take more pills to compensate but your liver’s not gonna like that
hovercat@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 10 pts · 185d
Sadly it requires a prescription, but maybe you can find a really cool pharmacist that'll prescribe them to your puppygirl lol.
JennyLaFae@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 8 pts · 185d
They have 2mg too, in 1/30/60/90 counts. It's literally the same generic estradiol at the human pharmacy 😁
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 185d
Ngl, if you could do that at a switch of a button, I'd do it out of sheer curiosity if there were no consequences, and you could switch back.
thiscat@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 180d
Honestly when i first heard of HRT i thought it would also mutate my body into having a painless bottom surgery
TotallynotJessica@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 180d
😭
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 185d
Why is the knowledge that they were the other gender painful for trans people? Like, they are not now, but that was who they were before.
Tons I don't understand about gender dysphoria, like I understand there might be genetic/hormonal reasons why someone feels uncomfortable with their apparent gender? Or the other gender fits them more and they feel wrong.
Anyway, literally can't imagine feeling wrong about whatever gender I'm born with, since I would 100% be convinced by my parents to be whatever they think I should be, I only contemplated it later. Like, should I even be a guy? Then I shrugged, didn't find anything much.
I asked some trans and non-binary people, and their explanations and terminology was quite helpful and interesting.
Melissa@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 8 pts · 185d
Because many of us don't view ourselves as having ever been the other gender. I was never male, but I was strongly encouraged by society to present and act as though I was so I did. It’s not “painful” it’s incorrect and a frustrating assumption.
It makes it sound like I either chose to switch, or something happened that switched me. Neither are true. I have ALWAYS been female, I just didn’t allow myself to show that to anyone outwardly until I transitioned.