• Aberration13@lemmy.worldEnglish
    861·
    24 days ago

    those are not silhouettes though, multiple have shading and would not be recognizeable without the extra surface detail

  • qyron@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    18·
    24 days ago

    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?

      • Apytele@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        15·
        24 days ago

        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!

        • birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          2·
          5 days ago

          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.worksEnglish
            1·
            5 days ago

            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.zoneEnglish
              1·
              5 days ago

              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?

          • Apytele@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            8·
            24 days ago

            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.

              • Apytele@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                1·
                19 days ago

                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.worksEnglish
          7·
          24 days ago

          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.worksEnglish
            12·
            24 days ago

            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.zoneEnglish
          2·
          19 days ago

          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.worksEnglish
            1·
            19 days ago

            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.zoneEnglish
              1·
              19 days ago

              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.worksEnglish
                1·
                19 days ago

                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.zoneEnglish
                  1·
                  19 days ago

                  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?

    • TotallynotJessica@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPMEnglish
      11·
      23 days ago

      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.