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Re: Hacking my Vagina

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Post by rmc »

twowaway wrote: post #171
mikeash wrote: post #139

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It's her middle name. Not uncommon to go by one's middle name.

I appreciate your stubborn loyalty, it's commendable and, in a way, cute. In this case you're wrong though: http://www.flickr.com/photos/micahdowty/5150806818/in/photos... http://www.flickr.com/photos/micahdowty/4698425505/in/photos... http://www.flickr.com/photos/micahdowty/4371698700/in/photos... (Just a few self-photos from Beth's public Flickr stream; all pics are work-safe. This is an extremely cool hacking arti…

I dunno, some women can be pretty hairy upper lip....

Re: Hacking my Vagina

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Post by rmc »

victorhn wrote: post #84

This is not meant to be a troll post, but just sincere curiosity. From the site "My full name is Micah Elizabeth Scott, but I used to be Micah Dowty prior to Fall 2010. My friends call me Beth." How can a woman who used to be a man can have a vagina? is there some kind of surgery? do you keep your sensitivity to be able to use vibrators?

is there some kind of surgery?

Yes it's call vaginoplasty http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaginoplasty . There's also one for penises, phalloplasty http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phalloplasty

do you keep your sensitivity to be able to use vibrators?

Some trans people who get genital (or "bottom") surgery report increased sensitivity, compared to before. Modern surgery is getting better all the time.

Re: Hacking my Vagina

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Post by rmc »

cynwoody wrote: post #212
djcapelis wrote: post #110

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My girlfriend wrote this post for the same reason she wrote the the other posts on her blog: to share her work and talk about neat hacks. Your statement that she's doing it for attention is incredibly sexist. Also she's queer, so the idea that she's doing it for male attention is pretty funny really.

>Also she's queer Your good fortune, man kind's loss: https://plus.google.com/photos/107665675896730237663/albums/...

'queer' (depending on one's definition) is basically "it's complicated". "Queer" does not imply "lesbian". She might not have ruled out all men.

Re: Hacking my Vagina

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Post by jQueryIsAwesome »

duzins wrote: post #247
jQueryIsAwesome wrote: post #210

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We have completly different definitions for that word then. For example If a boss needs to hire a good secretary for one of his employees; and assign him the task of finding one and then tells him "Don't let your hormones decide for you" is pretty clear what he means; that sexual attraction and gender should be irrelevant in the selection proccess and he should focus in practical skills a secretary should have. And t…

Do men still have to be told not to let their hormones affect their choice of hires? I didn't realize that was still a thing. Also, why does it have to be a secretary? Are they 100% female now? If he was looking for an engineer, would he need to be told not to let his hormones decide?

They don't "have" to be told; but its sometimes a healthy reminder... and it was just an example.

The majority of secretaries are female (not all); and is no secret that sometimes people hire based on looks instead of actual skills.

Re: Hacking my Vagina

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Post by jQueryIsAwesome »

flyinRyan wrote: post #250
jQueryIsAwesome wrote: post #144

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Being biologically biased is not "bad faith", is just a well known human trait.

This seems to imply it can't be fixed (if it can, why do you assume the worst now?). If it is something that can't be fixed, what's the point of your bringing it up?

Biologically biased doesn't mean it can be changed; for example we are biologically biased to be polygamous just like most mammals; but we are socially configured to be monogamous so most of us are.

Re: Hacking my Vagina

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Post by namdnay »

rmc wrote: post #249
namdnay wrote: post #241

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I find the quotation marks rather snarky, but your rebuke is incorrect too. Female is defined as: "[the] sex which produces eggs and which has XX chromosomes" She doesn't produce eggs and she doesn't have XX chromosomes, so if you follow the strict definition she isn't female either.

Who's definition is that? That's not the definition of female either I (and others) use, and it's also not the definition of female used by modern society. Hardly anyone knows what their chromosomes actually are, since people rarely get them tested (do you know yours? did you get them tested?), there are numerous biological conditions where people-commonly-treated-by-society-as-female do not have XX chromosomes, e.g.…

> Who's [sic] definition is that?

wiktionary...

Re: Hacking my Vagina

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Post by flyinRyan »

jQueryIsAwesome wrote: post #255
flyinRyan wrote: post #250

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This seems to imply it can't be fixed (if it can, why do you assume the worst now?). If it is something that can't be fixed, what's the point of your bringing it up?

Biologically biased doesn't mean it can be changed; for example we are biologically biased to be polygamous just like most mammals; but we are socially configured to be monogamous so most of us are.

So how do you know that the majority of people who voted this article up aren't already there? I have to be honest, your post strikes me as karma fishing.

Re: Hacking my Vagina

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Post by rmc »

namdnay wrote: post #256
rmc wrote: post #249

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Who's definition is that? That's not the definition of female either I (and others) use, and it's also not the definition of female used by modern society. Hardly anyone knows what their chromosomes actually are, since people rarely get them tested (do you know yours? did you get them tested?), there are numerous biological conditions where people-commonly-treated-by-society-as-female do not have XX chromosomes, e.g.…

> Who's [sic] definition is that? wiktionary...

So you're going to deny someone how they live based on what a wiki dictionary ion on the internet says? Dictionaries change all the time.

I see you wikitionary and raise you wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender

Re: Hacking my Vagina

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Post by lostlogin »

NegativeK wrote: post #91
victorhn wrote: post #84

This is not meant to be a troll post, but just sincere curiosity. From the site "My full name is Micah Elizabeth Scott, but I used to be Micah Dowty prior to Fall 2010. My friends call me Beth." How can a woman who used to be a man can have a vagina? is there some kind of surgery? do you keep your sensitivity to be able to use vibrators?

Yes; sexual reassignment surgery for male-to-female transsexuals exists (as does the other direction.) The short version: They form a vagina in the pelvis and reuse the head of the penis to form a clitoris. The urethra is also rerouted. Caveat: I am nothing more than a layperson on the subject. My short version may be wrong, and there may be other surgeries available. The longer version: Wikipedia [1] has quite a bit…

To quote a surgeon who does this operation: It is easier to dig a hole than build a pole.

Re: Hacking my Vagina

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Post by shinratdr »

mikeash wrote: post #190
twowaway wrote: post #171

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I appreciate your stubborn loyalty, it's commendable and, in a way, cute. In this case you're wrong though: http://www.flickr.com/photos/micahdowty/5150806818/in/photos... http://www.flickr.com/photos/micahdowty/4698425505/in/photos... http://www.flickr.com/photos/micahdowty/4371698700/in/photos... (Just a few self-photos from Beth's public Flickr stream; all pics are work-safe. This is an extremely cool hacking arti…

Nothing to do with loyalty. I just legitimately don't see how one gets from that name change to deciding there must have been a sex change. Knowing that the conclusion was correct doesn't help with that, but it's still good to know, so thanks!

Few, if any, men go by the name Beth.
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