so i’ve seen a lot of people talk about surgeries, mostly genital or boob area. i’d like to comment:
i think it’s not a good idea. at least it’s not as good an idea as people generally think. it does not just change your looks. it also changes the tissue, and that matters.
as an example, some women do plastic surgery to get larger boobs, but i’m quite sure that this erases a large part of the nervous tissue in the boobs, so the plastic essentially doesn’t feel anything, so i doubt that it would feel good to get them touched and stimulated by someone you like.
the same is true with the penis, which is not just a form factor, but also contains a lot of nervous tissue, and i’m quite sure that it would be significantly more difficult to get an orgasm without that nervous tissue. this is just something to beware. i’m not an expert on plastic surgeries, but this much seems rather straightforward to argue to me.
I think it’s safe to say that the doctors who perform such procedures inform their patients about all the possible consequences of the surgery. I also think the patients do quite a bit of research on their own.
If you really want to convince others of this, then I think you would need to (possibly) get a medical degree, gather lots of data and then write a medical research paper. However, I don’t think that’s what you want.
Why do you feel a need to dissuade others from having such surgeries? Why not live and let live? To each his/her/hir/xem/[your favourite pronoun] own?
For a neutral pronoun, have you tried “their”? Otherwise I completely agree with your point :3
Doh! I missed the most obvious one 🤦♀️🫣😁
What if we didn’t use pronouns at all and declined them like regular proper nouns.
“Xi saw Xir friend Sav at the store and she recognized Xim.”
“X saw X’s friend Sav at the store and she recognized X.”
Then you sound like you’re talking about like an agent whose name and pronouns has been redacted.