Fun fact: if you have a vagina you can do a maneuver called "vaginal splinting!" If you're constipated you can just stick a finger up your vagina (I find using my thumb to be the easiest), and you press on the back wall. You can literally just squeeze the shit out like it's a tube of toothpaste!
I like to look on the bright side when I can. A penis seems better in many ways and It's very possible I would have been happier to be born with one naturally (stand to pee when hiking, less random goop, easier to top), but I do also have to remind myself that the vagina has at least a few upsides (splinting, easier to bottom). Many people also like the feature where you get a little copy of yourself but personally I had that patched out.
No since my IUD I don't do that (that's a coinflip though, for many afabs it actually gets worse). No sometimes it just decides to secrete a bunch of goop for a day. It's largely colorless and if you've got a good microflora it doesn't smell offensive for a day or so (like sweat but thicker and slimier) but you do have to deal with it eventually. It's basically the female equivalent of a random boner. It's more likely if you're aroused but sometimes it's just your body making sure it all still works, especially overnight.
Oh that's actually the main contraindication. Even healed scar tissue is basically always slightly weaker than normal skin (it'll even reopen years later if you suddenly have a severe vitamin c deficiency) and in this case could cause a fistula.
I mean it is but it's also a privilege (perk is maybe a better term contextually) that gets lost by women who have had to have some kind of significant repair. I would think the main risk factor there is childbirth so it's likely they outnumber you demographically. You also can ask your surgeon, there's a possibility that what you're specifically having done is less risky or has become more robust since I last read up on this.
I'm blanking a bit on this. Wdym, they outnumber me demographically? I mean yes, there are more people w/ a vagina who gave birth than trans women w/ a vagina, but what relevance does that have in this regard? That there's more research on the former than on the latter?
It's not uncomfy. I find most pressure on that area is largely interpreted by my senses through a strong contextual filter and I perceive the context as neutral-beneficial so it doesn't really bother me.
that surprises me, interesting. thank you for the explanation!
i suppose it's like if you gently push your tongue onto a side of the cheek, and then push on that cheek with your finger. at least, that's the closest analogy my mind can make... longing for the surgery, honestly.
still, surprising that there would be a counterindication against doing that if you have a new vagina, even if it healed a long time ago. >:(
since you talked about feeling like the other parts have their kind of benefits - i wonder if other people also sometimes wonder what it feels like to have the opposite part (beside the dysphoria). do you have that too?
They're all memes. Jar-Jar Binks, amogus, a toothpaste shitting out the paste, and Robert Downey Jr. meme on the top row. Big chungus, Peter Griffin, the only one I don't recognize, and trollface on the bottom.
Prolly not that common of a meme to people who don't instantly associate lotion with jerking off since most of Europe at least doesn't genitally mutilate all baby penises by standard, much like the US and other theocracies do.
This is personal to me cause I am USian but not mutilated cause my mom told the hospital to fuck off when they pushed her. But I just did some googling and it's actually on the decline here! I still find it weird that we still do it at all, but progress is better than regress.
cause my mom told the hospital to fuck off when they pushed her.
The world needs more people like your mom.
Yeah progress in better. Hopefully that progress stays. Trump has reminded us progression of time doesn't necessarily correlate with progressive policy.
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Aberration13@lemmy.world · 85 pts · 169d
those are not silhouettes though, multiple have shading and would not be recognizeable without the extra surface detail
TotallynotJessica@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 25 pts · 169d
I have my brightness low enough that all of them look like silhouettes, and the only one I didn't recognize is the one I'm not familiar with.
tiramichu@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 168d
Didn't see them either because I don't keep my brightness setting on "thermonuclear explosion"
tomenzgg@midwest.social · 1 pts · 167d
My eyes are stronk…
Una@europe.pub · 30 pts · 169d
Big chungus is among us
TotallynotJessica@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 169d
Scheiss auf mein chungus leben
No_Ones_Slick_Like_Gaston@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 169d
But hey whazzup with Dat boiii
qyron@sopuli.xyz · 17 pts · 169d
So... I see a soap dispenser, a really fat rabbit, a weird vaccuum cleaner and a couple of silly putty figurines.
What am I supposed to be looking at?
Grail@multiverse.soulism.net · 29 pts · 169d
Apytele@sh.itjust.works · 15 pts · 169d
Fun fact: if you have a vagina you can do a maneuver called "vaginal splinting!" If you're constipated you can just stick a finger up your vagina (I find using my thumb to be the easiest), and you press on the back wall. You can literally just squeeze the shit out like it's a tube of toothpaste!
turbowafflz@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 169d
i cant tell whether this knowledge makes my dysphoria better or worse
Apytele@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 169d
I like to look on the bright side when I can. A penis seems better in many ways and It's very possible I would have been happier to be born with one naturally (stand to pee when hiking, less random goop, easier to top), but I do also have to remind myself that the vagina has at least a few upsides (splinting, easier to bottom). Many people also like the feature where you get a little copy of yourself but personally I had that patched out.
birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 164d
Less random goop...? ah, periods?
Apytele@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 164d
No since my IUD I don't do that (that's a coinflip though, for many afabs it actually gets worse). No sometimes it just decides to secrete a bunch of goop for a day. It's largely colorless and if you've got a good microflora it doesn't smell offensive for a day or so (like sweat but thicker and slimier) but you do have to deal with it eventually. It's basically the female equivalent of a random boner. It's more likely if you're aroused but sometimes it's just your body making sure it all still works, especially overnight.
festnt@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 169d
what the fuck that's sick
the gender neutral vereion of this must be using chopsticks to pull poop out of your own butt
Apytele@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 169d
I have no idea whether you're using the positive or negative connotation of sick but in either case my answer would be "you're welcome" so.
birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 164d
this is either cursed or incredibly handy
once i've had my surgery i might try this out (after it's all healed and well of course!)
Apytele@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 164d
Oh that's actually the main contraindication. Even healed scar tissue is basically always slightly weaker than normal skin (it'll even reopen years later if you suddenly have a severe vitamin c deficiency) and in this case could cause a fistula.
birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 164d
Ugh, cis privilege strikes again! /j
(I know, it's not per se a privilege, but damn, there goes my chance to do a funny :( )
Apytele@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 164d
I mean it is but it's also a privilege (perk is maybe a better term contextually) that gets lost by women who have had to have some kind of significant repair. I would think the main risk factor there is childbirth so it's likely they outnumber you demographically. You also can ask your surgeon, there's a possibility that what you're specifically having done is less risky or has become more robust since I last read up on this.
birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 164d
I'm blanking a bit on this. Wdym, they outnumber me demographically? I mean yes, there are more people w/ a vagina who gave birth than trans women w/ a vagina, but what relevance does that have in this regard? That there's more research on the former than on the latter?
birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 151d
returning to this, out of cursed curiosity, how does it actually feel doing that splinting? i can't imagine it's comfy.
Apytele@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 150d
It's not uncomfy. I find most pressure on that area is largely interpreted by my senses through a strong contextual filter and I perceive the context as neutral-beneficial so it doesn't really bother me.
birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 150d
that surprises me, interesting. thank you for the explanation!
i suppose it's like if you gently push your tongue onto a side of the cheek, and then push on that cheek with your finger. at least, that's the closest analogy my mind can make... longing for the surgery, honestly.
still, surprising that there would be a counterindication against doing that if you have a new vagina, even if it healed a long time ago. >:(
since you talked about feeling like the other parts have their kind of benefits - i wonder if other people also sometimes wonder what it feels like to have the opposite part (beside the dysphoria). do you have that too?
TotallynotJessica@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 11 pts · 169d
They're all memes. Jar-Jar Binks, amogus, a toothpaste shitting out the paste, and Robert Downey Jr. meme on the top row. Big chungus, Peter Griffin, the only one I don't recognize, and trollface on the bottom.
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 168d
The only one I got was jar jar
Patrikvo@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 168d
What's worse is the implication that Jar-jar was good character design.
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 168d
I think he was but I was the target audience
QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 168d
He was, just not for the movie he was in.
I mean Minions can be funny, but you'd never put one in Lord of the Rings.
TotallynotJessica@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 168d
Lord Jar-Jar is iconic!
tomenzgg@midwest.social · 2 pts · 167d
I…thought that was Sailor Moon
birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 15 pts · 169d
What's the second-to-last one on the lower row?
asqapro@reddthat.com · 19 pts · 169d
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/finna-jerk-it
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today · 13 pts · 169d
Sometimes I think I'm chronically online, then I find a new awesome meme that's been around for a while.
Dasus@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 168d
Prolly not that common of a meme to people who don't instantly associate lotion with jerking off since most of Europe at least doesn't genitally mutilate all baby penises by standard, much like the US and other theocracies do.
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 168d
This is personal to me cause I am USian but not mutilated cause my mom told the hospital to fuck off when they pushed her. But I just did some googling and it's actually on the decline here! I still find it weird that we still do it at all, but progress is better than regress.
Dasus@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 168d
The world needs more people like your mom.
Yeah progress in better. Hopefully that progress stays. Trump has reminded us progression of time doesn't necessarily correlate with progressive policy.
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 167d
Yeah, she's pretty dope! I'm a big (figuratively and literally) fan of her's.
RVGamer06@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 168d
Used to be on r/ComedyNecrophilia shortly before leaving reddit. That guy was all over the place
TotallynotJessica@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 169d
idk 😞
froufox@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 11 pts · 169d
the depiction of le trollface is non-canonical
essell@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 169d
I do not know any of these, for which I blame my age.
TotallynotJessica@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 8 pts · 169d
not even Jar-Jar or Peter Griffin?
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 11 pts · 169d
I thought Jar-Jar was a long haired skater or snowboarder at first 😄
(The silhouette above, not the ACTUAL Binkmeister)
essell@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 169d
Okay, if you point them out I can find them with a little effort.
I thought jar-jar was shrek but wasn't convinced.
I can see Peter Griffen now you say that. Not watched much of him. Only need to watch four episodes and you know all the jokes they'll ever use. 🤣😏
GlendatheGayWitch@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 168d
I thought top left was Sailor Moon at first, but I can see Jar-Jar too
TotallynotJessica@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 168d
Magical Girl Jar-Jar Moon
MarcomachtKuchen@feddit.org · 9 pts · 168d
Comedynecrophlia the sticker set
TotallynotJessica@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 168d
but you recognize them ☝️
BreadOven@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 168d
Jar Jar, Among us, blank, blank, chungus, peter griffin, blank, troll face.
birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 151d
First two blanks are shitting toothpaste and tony stark deadpan humour, third blank is finna jerk it
BreadOven@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 150d
Thank.
Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 169d
Baleine@jlai.lu · 6 pts · 168d
amogus
TotallynotJessica@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 13 pts · 168d
obligatory stonetoss is a Nazi
SandraBollocks@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 169d
michael richards, lol
TotallynotJessica@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 169d