This totally happens. And it ain’t pretty. Bearing down on the toilet can overstimulate your vagus nerve and cause you to faint. It’s called vasovagal syncope, and it drops your heart rate and blood pressure. Typically, blood flow would return to your brain and you’d regain consciousness. But…If you happen to also have cardiovascular or circulatory problems… it might not. That is why people sometimes die on the toilet.
man im not even in medicine but this is so incredibly wrong and misleading that even i can tell its bs. first of all, its WAY overexplaining “vasovagal syncopes” (literally just the term for when you faint. happens for a million reasons; getting a tattoo, being hungry/dehydrated, overexerting yourself, exhaustion, acute stress…) and the only time most people would DIE from fainting is if they passed out while rock climbing and fell off a cliff. the only scenario involved in shitting & blood pressure that could lead to death, as far as i know, is a heart attack in someone with a history of cardiovascular problems. so like, sure technically the exertion of shitting could kill someone with such extensive heart problems, but so could LITERALLY anything else at that point. if you can lift a box without having a myocardial infarction youre not gonna die while taking a shit.
I always thought this invisible guy on the Powerpuff Girls was just funny because he’s obviously dressed as a pimp, but it only now occurs to me that maybe it’s not an invisible dog he’s got on a leash.
when you go back to daydreaming after having been interrupted and your brain does a previously on of your fantasy
When you go back to daydreaming after being startled into the real world and your brain has to search through the ‘recently closed’ tabs to remember what you were daydreaming about
just a quick note- no trans person has ever said “did you just assume my gender.” trans people are very aware of how their gender and physical appearance differ and that visually one might assume that they are a man/woman when they are actually not. that’s kind of the whole idea of gender dysphoria.
and also you’ve beaten your “attack helicopter” joke into the fucking ground. cut that shit out.
i wanted to add one more thing to this post that other people have pointed out: i know its an awkward question, but a lot of trans people are going to be 100% fine with you asking what their gender is, or with calmly correcting you if you get it wrong. and if they’re not, then they’re way more likely to keep it to themselves than get visibly angry with someone. this idea that trans people just go apeshit when people misgender them accidentally/when first meeting them is a complete fabrication for a stupid joke and that’s why i despise it so much.
I can’t afford to get visibly angry about people misgendering me because that puts me in danger of getting harmed. once a cis person finds out my gender, one of two things will happen: they either accept me to various degrees, or they reject me and potentially escalate the situation. politeness is the only way I can decrease the risk of the latter.
the “DID YOU ASSUME MY GENDER?!” trope only serves to make trans people look ridiculous/unreasonable in the eyes of cis people, and places in their minds preconceptions about us that makes it harder, ultimately, for us to come out safely. if all they know about trans people are shitty jokes, then we as a people become those jokes to them.
yeah cis people, seeing as you’re literally the only people that make these jokes I’m gonna need you to reblog this
Jokes aren’t innocent if they contribute to people getting hurt.
