Bad Women's Anatomy Needs to Stop

[@astridposey]

"This is Shaaba. We're a couple." A cute couple. A couple of dorks. A wholesome couple. All of the above.

[@blorbo6778]

they're so cute

[@bjorntimmann5933]

I love how happy he sounds about that.

[@diegowolfe2744]

I was just gonna ask a couple of what?? Jokingly of course cause Jamie is big moods and his love and boosting of Shawna is so damn wholesome

[@Saranda4787]

I agree, but when people say "cute couple" it makes me cringe.

[@NankitaBR]

.... and more.

[@Victoriasm31]

"Women are people Tim" is the new "They're lesbians Harold."

[@superioroakmc942]

Oh my goodness!

[@michellebell9931]

Many lesbians have children.

[@superioroakmc942]

@@michellebell9931 By adoption or by one of them being trans?

[@jonasmartens3204]

People are gay, Steven.

[@JustAddMuffins]

@@zvign7554 cisman without a space sounds like a superhero.

[@whatsyourname9581]

That Tim calling women a vessel for their child sounds a lot more as if he was some demon who needs a mortal body to carry the soul of their ghost child. Wtf

[@YuBeace]

That seriously made it a lot easier to cope with this. Just picturing some satanic sorcerer going "I need a vessel... for my little demons..."

[@erins.b6739]

Come on dude, that's insulting for the demon

[@barbarawallace6890]

Its so sad to think that, humans being what they are, some woman will match with that man..... 🙄

[@nox6914]

That happened on Supernatural once..

[@naolucillerandom5280]

Ok that's actually interesting Unfortunately he's probably not a demon trying to start up a generation of super humans via date sites*

[@lassi8205]

If women are "vessels" or "embryonic fridges" men should be called "sperm guns" or something lol

[@ghjhhbjj3124]

But the only things they can shoot are their socks

[@lassi8205]

@@ghjhhbjj3124 lol why socks

[@faithpearlgenied-a5517]

They'd probably take it as a compliment to be honest :/

[@lassi8205]

@@faithpearlgenied-a5517 oof yeah😒

[@e2155z]

in russian there is a derogatory term “спермобак” (spermobak), which basically means “a sperm tank”

[@metademetra]

The "stop fighting biology" people really need to take a step back. Everything humanity has achieved has been achieved with the goal of fighting biology. Can't get to New York from California in a week? We make cars. We're dying from awful infections? We make vaccines, antibiotics, and soap. Can't fly? We make airplanes.

[@magnifichades9710]

Honestly, yeah, if they want us to stop “fighting biology” they better go back to living in the Stone Age lmao

[@mahtabn.b5230]

Nice point you got there

[@taiyoqun]

Bold of you to assume those people believe antibiotics and planes are real. Also god created cars on the third day, so checkmate liberals!

[@tiredguyswag]

if it really is biology, we wouldn't need to be reminded!

[@jvseventeen]

They also don't seem to recognize that not everyone is cut out to be a parent. Not everyone be a parent. If the child will not be cared for and nurtured, why bring the child into the world to begin with? I know I can't be a parent. I don't have the patience or mental stability to do so. So it's a good thing I already didn't want kids. But living in the South at 28, there's always older women that want to ask when I'm having a baby🙄

[@gray6719]

"Women are people, not embryonic freezers" is a sentence I never thought I'd hear.

[@scathannagoodman3796]

And a sentence we never thought anyone would need to say.

[@mikuenjoyerXD]

@@scathannagoodman3796 for real.

[@afoolishfopdoodle3284]

This has little to do with the original comment but I love your pfp, it looks like two gentle egg yolks having a cuddle

[@akt3037]

Brand new sentence

[@gray6719]

@@afoolishfopdoodle3284 thank you! They're orange and grapefruit plushies.

[@earthwormlily7425]

People all women should have on speed dial: 1. Their wombs 2. Their therapists 3. Charles Dawkins 4. Their cactus armpit hair

[@XXwhoknowsXX81]

👏👏👏👏

[@Missingno_Miner]

TBH, everyone should have 2-4 on speed dial.

[@ettaz]

Also, Tim is on the blocked list, obviously

[@peterhickman9082]

As a woman, this is totally true.

[@Xennmeme]

EARTHWORM SALLI

[@Christina-hj4hh]

The giggly descent towards “Charles Dawkins” was hilarious and adorable. This is why your relationship works so well. You’re friends as well as partners

[@hellyhellhound]

they are truly amazing

[@SG-zp4fz]

I'm still bursting lmao

[@AnishaMaithil]

C...AHAHAHAHAHHAHAH

[@karenneill9109]

It’s like hanging out with friends.

[@mahrinui18]

Candace Owens breaking glass ceilings by showing women can be misogynists too!! So inspiring!!! 😍

[@thatgaiagirl6788]

‘Stop using pain killers to help with cramps’ Has this person heard of endometriosis??? I have friends who’ve gone on the Pill just to deal with the pain. It is legitimately like a migraine in your stomach and we’re just supposed to drink tea about it??? I will never understand the ‘tough it out’ mentality i swear

[@AskMia411]

Yeah, not to mention that endometriosis can cause uterine lining to grow *outside * the uterus which makes the pain even worse. By the time someone told me that level of pain and bleeding wasn’t normal my entire reproductive area felt like a pumice stone. Hooray for medical intervention and pharmaceuticals! Haven’t had a period in years and I’m so much happier!

[@viktor4311]

Tim’s tinder profile: “Cleverness is heritable from the mother, therefore a smart vessel is a must” Well, at least he’s aware he’s not going to be contributing any intelligence 😂

[@durabelle]

Unfortunately for Tim any smart vessel will steer well clear of him.

[@LilacOpheliac]

He also inadvertently called his mother an idiot 🤣

[@kiarona.]

This comment needs more likes 🤣

[@tinkeramma]

@@durabelle This was my exact thought. Tim will still be looking at 96 if he stays committed to the education of his vessel.

[@JaneAustenAteMyCat]

Yes, that's what I thought!

[@katphish30]

"Women are meant to nurture." I foster kittens, that's enough nurturing for me.

[@solaridastoobid]

Kittens are better than children

[@katphish30]

Y'all can have all the human children you can support, but I'm going to stick with kittens.

[@just_Alexio]

Cats are just so much better then people and that's a fact

[@tdelioncourt1268]

@@solaridastoobid make better pictures too

[@tinkeramma]

@@katphish30 I like all of my kids some of the time. I like a select few of other people's children on occasion and have adopted one as an unofficial child who fits in the first category. Kittens? I like ALL of them ALL of the time. And I'm not allergic to them in spite of being allergic to a majority of inhaled allergens. Even when they grow up and their cuteness is in a less tiny body, I like them. Congrats on choosing a kitten-friendly and child-free life.

[@Conformist138]

I was watching a streamer that I do really like when the topic of reproductive anatomy came up and he wondered out loud if human eggs are the size of a pea! He slowly worked it out in his own mind, and managed to logically conclude they had to be smaller, but he only sized down to sushi caviar, and by then, I was nearly in tears imagining what it would be like to carry a whole bag of frozen peas in my ovaries.

[@valenciageode25]

I googled it, they’re about 100 microns in diameter. About the thickness of a strand of hair. At least he knew they can be seen with the naked eye. Egg cells are the largest human cells.

[@snipintoaslamjam5518]

Oh god, I just had an absolutely horrible thought. The phrasing of carrying a bag of peas made me imagine a horrid pocket organ. Like a straight up pouch in there.

[@Scl45689]

It'd be wayyyyyyyyyy more than 1 bag of peas up in there. We're born with about a million.

[@leobeboop4944]

@@snipintoaslamjam5518 Oh go no lmao

[@janas_tueddelkram]

Well. he wasn`t completely wrong. A Graafian follicle can even be a lot bigger than a pea. So maybe he was thinking of follicles at first.

[@benny_lemon5123]

"Get in touch with your womb." Ima serve mine an eviction notice. Anyone out there looking to take in an organ that needs a forever home? Also, for Shaaba: your hair is gorgeous! I love it!

[@WolfBitesAndSleepyGraves]

I too am also only getting in touch with mine to tell them to go away

[@esr1412]

Tim sealed his own fate with his request by demanding cleverness. Any clever person will run in the opposite direction of him.

[@ceilinh6004]

"Get in touch with your womb." Hey, down there, no worries. Sending pain meds your way. You'll feel better soon. Maybe.

[@ona512]

*pokes my fupa

[@mahtabn.b5230]

lmaooo "maybe." why did i find that funny

[@kai_maceration]

Reminds me of that post that said about women master baiting " that's the devil's doorbell and if you keep pressing it he'll answer" lmao

[@AskMia411]

My uterus only communicates via *screaming*

[@1vy-ster]

Tim: a nice woman who is commited to fostering the next generation Jamie: how many children does he want?!

[@valenciageode25]

I have come to the conclusion that Tim is an alien sent to blend in with the local populous of earth and make hybrids so they can infiltrate society. Luckily, it’s not going very well.

[@ScientistCat]

The whole talk about "vessel" and "the next generation" just makes me think Star Trek.

[@hotplanofaction3219]

@@ScientistCat or demons. 😂

[@HarpscityIsHere]

*an entire generation*

[@lexwithbub]

But also "fostering"? Is he actually looking for two women? one to be the vessel and one to foster them?

[@MsAaannaaa]

Imagine being that confident, that you tell a cis woman that you know better when she gets her period than she does. Especially, (!) when you not once in your life (!!!!) had a single (!!!!!!!) period (!!!!!!!!!!!) of your own (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!). I'd like to have that confidence for a day just to know what it feels like.

[@AnnekeOosterink]

May you have the confidence of a mediocre white man.

[@hannajung7512]

Must be amazing

[@RagDollCookie]

My ex always told me how to wash my...area that he doesn't have. In these stories funnily enough the guy is always an ex for some reason XD

[@MsAaannaaa]

@@RagDollCookie can't see a pattern xD

[@Vahlee-A]

If I had that kind of confidence, I'd be ... upset

[@gayahithwen]

I've been in touch with my womb since I got my period age 10, a quarter century ago. And I gotta say... my womb is a BIYATCH. She don't care that I am dealing with my own shit, all she cares about is ~babies~ Like, I tell her to calm down so I can get some shit done, but she keeps building a hospitable nursery in my body month after month, and then throwing a giant hissy fit about the fact that I still haven't made a baby for her to care for. So yeah, if I have to take some ibuprofen to deal with her passive-aggressive monthly "I guess I'll just throw out all this fine uterine lining I made for US to have a BABY" cleaning session, I will.

[@flaminglesbian]

My uterus is throwing a hissy fit right now! Time to take four ibuprofen so I still have the ability to function :)

[@gtickno2946]

I feel like the "sanctity of the vulva" person is going to flip out when they learn closed crotch underwear is a relatively recent thing and women used to not really have underwear (or had open crotch underwear) under their skirts

[@leandrog2785]

How did they deal with period bleeding?

[@Aspen.mysterydawn]

@@leandrog2785 look up the sanitary belt and read about it theres still some being made today and were made by a black woman in 1957 and was contacted by a company wanting to sell what she had made but once they found out she was black they backed out and thats about all i know so do your own research if you wanna know more!!

[@lemonlizard6026]

Can confirm I, just like many people, have my womb and Charles Dawkin on speed dial. I speak with them regularly to make sure I remain as hairless as a naked mole rat and do not accidentally produce testosterone. Heaven forbid start growing any muscle. /j

[@juliaharris1431]

Charles Dawkins went to my 5th birthday. My womb went to my 13th, and my armpit cactus went to my great grandmother's funeral.

[@castlesteinway7741]

Don't forget your therapist too

[@dwoktheraynejonsohn4849]

And by not producing testosterone, you can also live out the dream of doing what you like and "just not having periods :) ♥"

[@charliestrickland6194]

😂😂😂

[@safala]

I am just a skin covering my scandalous bones.

[@Bea_Cannelloni]

That Charles Hawkins one made me laugh so much. How straight cis man can be so fundamentally wrong with all the confidence in the world it just baffles me. 😂😂😂

[@elektrajames1306]

I know right!! 😂😂 I had to pause the video to finish laughing. And it just made it Even funnier to me that I'm confused on whether he meant Charles Darwin or Richard Dawkins 😂

[@hazelisaghost]

@@elektrajames1306 maybe he meant Charles Dickens the beloved author 🤣

[@elektrajames1306]

@@hazelisaghost That is another great option... 😂😂

[@UmbraKrameri]

I just can't believe how men can be so dumb about female reproductive biology and periods. I mean, if nothing else, the, they had a mother.

[@NoobGamer-hn5rs]

im still cry laughing from that part LMAO.......

[@GeorgeABMoore]

The testosterone one gets me. I’m trans, pre everything, and yet I have the T levels of an early teenage boy because of PCOS. Good sir, my beard would like a word with you.

[@Struudeli]

All people have more or less testosterone and even some cis-women have more testosterone than some cis-men. It's ridiculous that people don't know even this little. All the luck and strength to your transition!♡

[@TheAwesomes2104]

@@Struudeli Yes, I used to tell my ex I thought I had higher testosterone levels than him and he would get so mad... But fr, I'm AFAB and take no HRT, but I'm extremely strong for my size and sex, and I develop muscles easily when I eat enough to grow them. Same guy also tried to break into my house after I broke up with him, and I had to punch him in that face and break his nose to stop him. So, if he did have more testosterone than me, It didn't do him any good.

[@Struudeli]

@@TheAwesomes2104 Oh gods, good that nothing worse happened! But yeah I feel that. I've wanted to have my hormone levels tested for a long time because I'm pretty sure something is "off". Doctors just basically refuse to help :/

[@yaboimagnus4776]

i don't have pcos specifically but i have something going on, and on the one hand oof ouch period hurty, but on the other my beard is gender euphoria

[@NankitaBR]

I'm a cis-het woman with no problems in my reproductive area whatsoever and my chin and belly hairs would like to have a talk with this person... Edit: and I did have my hormones tested years ago and I do have a higher testosterone level than average... But the only thing it gives me is hairs lol Otherwise, nothing different than any other cis-het woman... I don't even have muscles 🤣

[@KossolaxtheForesworn]

"women cant grow muscle because they have no testosterone." we have achieved idiocracy.

[@wormbag80]

I kinda hate how muscles are considered masculine or manly

[@tinkeramma]

And yet, the organ we're most prized for, the starting place of all those babies we're *destined* to have, is a giant MUSCLE.

[@Siilikeiju]

I personally am just a skin-covered noodle.

[@RexxyRobin]

@@tinkeramma Also: hearts

[@thepinkestpigglet7529]

Go watch the Sarah Z video on why you shouldn't say that

[@randomgirlxrulz]

8:24 This is why word choice is crucial! "Looking for the mother of my future children" sounds so sweet and romantic. "Looking for a vessel for our future offspring" sounds like an alien that wants to harvest humans for its experiments! Wtf!!

[@hotplanofaction3219]

The only thing my grandmother was designed to nurture was a bottle of bourbon. No, not every woman should have kids. And yes, I'm extremely aware that that means I wouldn't exist.

[@Struudeli]

Some people can't understand that even if we recognise our parents or grandparents shouldn't have had kids, doesn't mean we cannot be happy in our lives. The fact is that if we didn't exist, we would've never known we could've existed. There would be nothing to be sad about.

[@kaykeunil]

@@Struudeli honestly yeah. I went to a catholic high school and the religion teacher would always say “wouldn’t you be upset if your mother had aborted you?” And I was like first off I wouldn’t even know so how could I be upset? Second off again I wouldn’t know so that’s perfectly within my mother’s right to exercise her freedom with her body??? And more personally, if I wasn’t born 9 months after the honeymoon my dad wouldn’t have been stuck in an abusive marriage with her bc they would have split up in a year otherwise. I mean, I still like living, but those types of arguments are really flawed. Either way it wasn’t in my control so I might as well live the way I want.

[@Struudeli]

@@kaykeunil Yeah, my grandma was a schizophrenic teen mom. Her mom, my great grandma, was found in a dumpster as a tiny baby in 1920's so she wasn't able to give my grandma any love and support that couldve helped her. Neither of them should've never had even one kid and they both had multiple. My mom has carried the mental and physical scars of that childhood her whole life and will always, and in turn has her own mental disorders that affected my childhood negatively. However my mom is a good mom with all her flaws, she is always trying her best. My grandma killed herself over twenty years ago when I was around four. She wasn't an evil person, but she was very sick, back then in 60's and 70's when my mom was a child there just wasn't any help existing. Even though I carry a lot of trauma, generational and my own, I'm still happy to be alive. And when I'll have my own children the cycle of trauma that has continued four generations will not continue any further. My mother already managed to break the worst of it off, of which she will always have my greatest respect for. Life can be good even if you recognise you shouldn't be alive.

[@TheAwesomes2104]

I love the "but then you wouldn't exist" thing, as if, should your grandmother not had children, you'd be around to mourn and regret your lack of ever having existed. Also, think of the tragedy that is the fact that your grandmother didn't get pregnant every single time she ovulated, and your hundreds of aunts and uncles never existed. Surely that's safer than 1 single person never existing, yet oddly, no one seems to care.

[@carolinpurayidom4570]

@@kaykeunil Umm having an abortion is different from avoiding concieving a child .

[@valenciageode25]

With such an “average man” style name and the language, Tim might be an alien. He was sent to Earth on a mission to create hybrids. Luckily for the human race, his pursuit won’t go well.

[@valenciageode25]

@Sharee Mitchell what’s that?

[@Tustin2121]

As a Tim myself, I disavow this Tim on behalf of all other Tims. That Tim needs to change his name effective immediately. A Name Eviction Notice is being sent his way right now.

[@tinkeramma]

I will vouch for having known many Tims to be decent humans and lacking similarities with this rubbish.

[@howlinghellgar2214]

@@tinkeramma I don’t know too many Tims but the ones I do know are fine people. I third the notion of kicking this Tim out of the communiTim

[@ErutaniaRose]

The only Tim I have ever seen was a tv show character, the teacher in Wolfblood. He was great, lol. I will mail that Name Eviction Notice myself.

[@erinyes3943]

He could learn to be a bit more timid

[@echothefreak9396]

@@erinyes3943 why does this not have more likes

[@thatfatginger]

not only do women naturally produce testosterone, the reason we get more emotional on our periods is because we produce *more* testosterone during that time

[@Emma3-y8c]

Well that is both very helpful for us trans guys and at the same time not

[@scarletrose2880]

"I don't rent to single mothere or any women" Pretty sure that's literally illegal. People ne like "what do we need feminism for discrimination is illegal" then shit like this happens.

[@mellie4174]

It is but who will enforce it

[@Amara87387]

@@mellie4174*gets my sword* I will

[@PokhrajRoy.]

I died at Shaaba and Jamie dying of laughter at “Charles Dawkins” 😂

[@Benjiboi15]

Same

[@internetlurker1850]

The only time you should call a woman a vessel is if she is literally a ship.

[@bluesusername]

The titanic

[@SomeOnlinePerson]

I, for one, would like it if ships would stop being universally women. Why is every freaking boat a "she?" (Not coming at you, just a random rant.)

[@DogsandPennies]

@@SomeOnlinePerson i think it's cause sailors used to be mostly straight men that missed their wives while at sea for months, so they'd affectionately call their boats "she" out of partial loneliness. Personally I think it's cute, but to each their own lol

[@annhans3535]

So that is why all ships are female. Always wondered about that now I understand.

[@the-ma-an]

@@DogsandPennies That actually makes sense

[@NickyTannock]

I can't get over how people can be so confidently wrong.

[@squeaktheswan2007]

They clearly don't know any girls in real life.

[@alastairoldaccount6611]

@@squeaktheswan2007 ikr

[@MirrimBlackfox]

I feel like quoting OT here "Have you been outside?"

[@alastairoldaccount6611]

@@MirrimBlackfox I know that’s a rhetorical question but no, not lately 😅 I don’t even know if quarantine is over or not

[@smolapril]

@@alastairoldaccount6611 new update : its endemic

[@hopeswansonsmith4645]

I, a cis woman, incapable of growing muscle tissue, need to ask my uterus how it pushed out a baby. And my whole digestive system has some explaining to do. And my heart. You just know this person is a “it’s basic biology” type and yet missed literal basic biology.

[@tinkeramma]

Don't you know, that baby just *fell* out because nothing was protecting the sanctity of the vulva. Mine too, three times. So wild.

[@hopeswansonsmith4645]

@@tinkeramma I did forget to wear my lacy underwear that day.

[@tinkeramma]

@@hopeswansonsmith4645 I forgot to own lacy underwear. It's easy to see how them babies just plopped right out.

[@emperorofthebananaboat4434]

As a woman, this is why these confidently wrong people get “no bitches”

[@samg6940]

Stanzi??

[@emperorofthebananaboat4434]

@@samg6940 heh, no sadly

[@punkrockbenny]

I'm a mom and I'm still an angry, bitter, maladapted, shrieking sociopath with my therapist on speed dial. I bet Candace Owens feels stupid now.

[@cycymaca]

@@margaretnicol3423 hello, we don't interact with werewolf person. You will lose braincells and gain annoyance from reading their comments. Thank you😂😂😂 But seriously, its a troll don't feed them.

[@squeaktheswan2007]

@@cycymaca At least it's a troll that fights other trolls like Dusty, but yeah, they're kinda terfy

[@punkrockbenny]

@The Werewolf Of Scandinavia Skills

[@eliasbischoff176]

@@cycymaca internet trolls are like Moose. If you feed them, they will associate you with food and get more aggressive, when they don't receive it in future interactions with humans.

[@squeaktheswan2007]

@@margaretnicol3423 Wereterf doesn't understand what irony is, either apparently.

[@Everythingwithonehand]

I had such painful periods that I ended up having my uterus scooped out and incinerated. If that person had given me a lecture about getting in touch with my womb I would have given them an example of just how bad my pain was to see if they reached for the pharmaceuticals.

[@nat3007]

Considering I'm on the waiting list to have mine removed and endometriosis adds to the cramps so much so that it has faked appendicitis a couple of times.

[@Struudeli]

@@nat3007 this has happened to me too. It sucks when the doctors want to cut you up, then realize it's "just period pains" and send you home with ibuprofen. Thanks for nothing :|

[@piarateking8094]

@@Struudeli drs have way too much faith in ibuprofen

[@taranullius9221]

I haven't had a period in 10 years. My doctor's like, "you should have one every 3-4 months and if you want skip the rest" and I just nod my head like yeaaaaaaah that's what I'll do. "Maybe you should switch to Marina where someone has to shove a metal thing up your twat" and again I'm just like yeaaaaaah OK. OR, or I'll just keep taking this little pill thing. Prolly have a stroke or something.

[@nat3007]

Yes but the last time it was so severe I was kept in for two nights and had a variety of scans.

[@1vy-ster]

Shaaba's hair looks very pretty and colorful!

[@jacobharvest]

YES!!

[@PeakLinear]

It does!! I LOVE it!!

[@Siilikeiju]

It's soooo pretty!

[@WantedVisual]

"The female body is incapable of producing testosterone" Tell me you failed 8th grade bio without telling me you failed 8th grade bio.

[@Amara87387]

“Failed” gives him WAY too much credit

[@Komi83]

As a someone whose period cramps are for most of the time non-existent and I'm not used to them at all as a result, let me tell you, when they are present, not even the strongest medication can be enough help. If someone told me during one of those episodes that I just have to learn to deal with the pain without any medication, I would castrate them and tell them to just deal with the pain. Not even joking rn.

[@zuglymonster]

I honestly think that the "get in touch with your womb" was also written by a woman. It comes across as one of those posts you find from those super super religious women that say things like "women are supposed to be serving men, if you aren't serving a man you won't be truly happy " and stuff

[@orestria]

Yeah I agree. It sounds like a woman with mild cramps who thinks women with terrible cramps are lying

[@durabelle]

I agree. I immediately got this mental image of an anti-vaxxer yoga mum who swears on homeopathy and detox tea or green juice or something. It's better to suffer or even risk your childs life than support the big pharma, you know the type?

[@acciotardisalohomora6302]

I have a feeling they also sell Herbal Tea.

[@Mokiefraggle]

@@acciotardisalohomora6302 Herbal tea, essential oils, probably even some yoni stones or other such metaphysical "oh no, why you do?"

[@tinkeramma]

Damn it. I knew my happiness couldn't be "true."

[@AndrewD8Red]

This is some Victorian-era "ladies getting the vapours" kind of nonsense. How has this kind of crap not disappeared by now?!

[@nephlimjedi4741]

That... is a mystery no one has yet solved. But I expect bad education to be a partial cause of such stupidity.

[@joda7697]

Because only two things are infinite, and one of them is human stupidity.

[@intercat4907]

Because the kind of person who purveys this silliness is the kind of person who never ever gets to talk to women. Even if there are women in their families and workplaces. And isn't that pathetic.

[@naolucillerandom5280]

@@firasjemil213 Last time I checked, you weren't supposed to treat depression with lobotomies.

[@vangu2918]

They don't teach sex ed in a lot of schools and the parents aren't capable either, sad really.

[@GenocidexDreams]

As someone who has had to field “haha are you related to Charles Darwin” questions all my life, I LOVE THE CHARLES DAWKINS MESS UP! This is so perfect.

[@hawkeyescoffee6399]

But are you though? Lol. Just joking. I know what you mean, my mum has the same name as an unpopular famous woman. The number of people who ask her if she's any relation to her is ridiculous (they seem to forget the woman was married and took her husband's name, even if they didn't know that mum was too & had done the same, although the Mrs should be a give away on documentation). But of course family rumours being what they are, someone had decided we had to be. So, at one pint it pissed me off so much i dedicated weeks of my genealogy skills to tracing the other woman's & her husband's family tree to prove there was no connection. What did turn out interesting was my dad did have an ancestor who married in the same town that the woman's husband's ancestor had lived in even though our ancestors lived across the country from there usually; they married women with the same surname but who were not related... I had a mini heart attack that the connection might be true just on a different line, but turned out not to be. I discovered it's harder to disprove a link than it is to prove there is one too. Thankfully, the questions and jokes are on the decrease now because the person has been deceased a few years, but that just means we're less expecting it when it does come up. Unfortunately, you probably won't have that luxury, I'd mess with people and call one of my pets Charles lol.

[@sagesaria]

"The female body is incapable of producing testosterone" me, a cis woman with PCOS: loud, pointed laughter like she's in the Liar Liar meeting room

[@PineappleLiar]

Damn this reminds me of just how glad I am to be on birth control nowadays. For almost all of my teen years I was in cramp hell, having to go home from school or just being tapped out in the bathroom for hours on end just because they sucked that much. The problem wasn’t getting in touch with my womb, fella, it was in fact that I needed to block my womb’s number so it would stop pestering me about my unborn child’s extended warranty.

[@xotbirdox]

ALRIGHT I am 2:37 into this video and I'm already pissed off 😂 (not pissed off with you and Shaaba, you two are great, I'm pissed off with the period pain comment 😅) As someone who has PCOS and Endometriosis, if I dumped my prescription painkillers, I would be constantly crying on my floor, or worse yet, in hospital a lot of the time bc my cramps and my bleeding that never ends without intervention (i.e, also "pharmaceuticals" such as Metformin) HAVE put me in the hospital before. Why do so many cishet men think that they are so qualified to speak on this shit, it's so annoying

[@Scl45689]

If only that one person knew how much testosterone those of us PCOS produce.His little mind would explode.

[@UmbraKrameri]

I can only guess they think we are exaggerating when talking about the cramps. I wish a labor simulator test on all of them just so a significant other can stand by their bedside when they are in a lot of pain to tell them that some of us go through this every single month.

[@ettaz]

I'm not sure about the gender of the person in that one. I've meet a few ladies during my life that have had the luck of getting painfree periods and just couldn't get why someone would need medication for pain. It also sounds like a wishy-washy hippie girl who is out of touch with reality, but that just might be me stereotyping.

[@kaykeunil]

@@ettaz it could be either, but I’d like to hold out hope that even those with pain free periods still generally understand the discomfort of bleeding every month

[@Kaalokalawaia]

I'm sorry hun

[@MelanaC]

Damn…Candace Owens makes me soooo uncomfortable! My grandmother nearly died trying to have babies… she was rushed to hospital and had an emergency hysterectomy. She was 24. It was the saddest thing that happened to her. She and my grandpa went on to foster 124 kids in 30 years and adopted my mum and my uncle! She couldn’t have children so she took in kids that other people didn’t want, couldn’t look after, or just needed help.

[@alex_blue5802]

Your grandmother is awesome.

[@MelanaC]

@@alex_blue5802 thank you! She totally was 🥰

[@tdelioncourt1268]

This is badass!

[@OMGitsaClaire]

For the “sanctity of the vulva” one, is the person just afraid that without something to hold it in, our wombs will just fall out or something? I promise you, our uteruses, ovaries, cervixes, and vaginas are very fully attach in there and are going nowhere without surgical intervention.

[@lorifiedler13]

When trains became standard transportation, it was thought to be dangerous for women to use them because their uterus would fly out.

[@solaridastoobid]

@@lorifiedler13 LMFAO I haven't even taken physics and I know that there's some law that prevents that

[@solaridastoobid]

Also why specifically the uterus? They could have been worried about something more important like the heart or lungs but noooo it's the baby carrying flesh bag

[@lorifiedler13]

@@solaridastoobid Well, with corsets being in use, women's organs appeared to migrate. Having move around inside the body, but having them fly out? Scandalous.

[@UmbraKrameri]

Except for vaginal prolapse which is very real and disturbing.

[@justiciarkanafinwe810]

To the "the female body is incapable of producing [testosterone]" person... oh, honey. My man. My dude. My guy. You need testosterone in order to synthesize estrogen.

[@cheese7119]

:O that's a fact I didn't know

[@cukka99]

Funnily enough women are most like men (hormonally) during their periods.

[@iamaugtizm]

I CAME OUT AS TRANS YESTERDAY AND YOU WERE ONE OF MY MAIN INSPIRATIONS, EEE!

[@jaymakesvideos1510]

Omg I’m so happy for you!

[@magnifichades9710]

Yo that’s awesome! :D

[@WolfBitesAndSleepyGraves]

❤️❤️ you're amazing ❤️❤️

[@tan8802]

Shaaba being so serious while saying something so funny in such a non caring way reminds me of my best friend this is exactly her when she cracks a joke in the flow and doesn't even realize or laugh a bit (and then we end up laughing at each others laugh for full 40 minute classes 💀) what a wonderful mate to be with~

[@soulslicr5743]

Shaaba's hair is absolutely AMAZING!

[@akgfilming]

TRUE!!!

[@Trees...]

Its absolutely amazing!

[@kellyezebra]

I feel the need to clarify that you’re talking about her HAIR hair, and not the sanctity of her eyebrows

[@theballadofidioticbones2597]

The intro was… interesting. Especially when I accidentally had it in x1.25

[@shmungus6035]

Its even better on 1.5🤣

[@theakaneko]

The most ridiculous thing I have ever seen was in a book for my preteen daughter: "Your period is a gift. You were made perfect by God. Write a letter and thank Jesus for your period." ... there was also some misinformation, so I told my little sweetheart to take everything in that book with a grain of salt and if anything sounded weird to ask.

[@cherusiderea1330]

Just take away the book and get a good one?

[@solidsteelcobra]

Some books deserve to be burned, like that one.

[@LinguaPhiliax]

7:03 "the sanctity of the scrotum" has to be one of the best lines Shaaba has ever said in one of Jamie's videos. XD

[@KyleRayner12]

Alternate titles for this video: "Sanctity of the Scrotum" "Frank Lloyd Edison, Charles Dawkins, and Other Hybrid Scientists" "Ladies, Beware Tim"

[@genesisofthebetween]

THE LAST ONE HEKDIHEBSIFBHEJSJUS

[@anna_in_aotearoa3166]

😂 This video was hilarious, but I am cackling & in tears of laughter even more reading the comments section! 😄

[@caidalee1994]

I’ll have you know that me being an angry, bitter, maladaptive, shrieking sociopath with my therapist on speed dial has *nothing* to do with me not starting a family. 😤

[@rosemarielee7775]

Someones heard me after a day with the kids!

[@Cascadeis]

@@rosemarielee7775 My thought exactly! 😂

[@sunnycool505]

Now that I’ve transitioned into a woman I lost all muscle on my body

[@Miley_stay_army8356]

😂

[@Siilikeiju]

It takes a bit of time to get used to being like a boiled noodle, but you'll get there.

[@kazikek2674]

Your limbs move via a mixture of nurturing instinct created by estrogen interacting with your brain and pure trans spite, because your muscles are incapable of moving them

[@kekessadavies4150]

And now I am a man, I’m now Dwayne Johnson.

[@savatheferret]

"women that don't start families transform into angry bitter sociopaths" well Candace my mom has 3 kids so I think some information may be lost here

[@sutpecna]

7:08 "The Sanctity of the Scrotum" deserves to be a black metal album, with its live counterpart "The Sanctity of the Vulva"

[@AKbaby89]

I have stage 4 Endometriosis, and the whole "stop taking meds" thing really just made me so mad, I didn't even know people thought that way?!

[@Otakugatothequeen]

Same

[@PhosphorAlchemist]

It's the kind of attitude you have to witness to believe people really are that backward about it. I'm all for taking the minimum medication possible, but communing with my body isn't going to fix a serious and painful disorder!

[@Mel-qr5ob]

A period hurts more than a broken arm and a hospitalizing crush injury (To me. I've had both). Next time that dude gets in a accident people should just hand him a cup of tea and tell him to carry on working.

[@SevCaswell]

It was probably a woman who wrote that post, it stinks of Essential Oils Karen BS

[@eonadgm5416]

I'm not defending the post, but the right herbal tea can help a lot for period cramps. For me at least, but I also know plenty of people have worse pain and then need painkillers.

[@Basilissa_Sunight]

Twisted (very badly) a knee and broken a foot: absolutely not comparable to my period pain! Still, my period cramps are getting better and if I can take the day for myself, drink some tea, have a warmer on my belly and just relax I can probably manage to go throu the day without painkillers. If I can't (so most of the time), I am going to need THE STRONGEST STUFF MY OBGYN CAN PRESCRIBE ME (for some reason I have no half measure)

[@SomeOnlinePerson]

Apparently, super painful periods are supposed to be cause to see a doctor because it implies there's something medically going on that probably can (and maybe really needs to be) corrected. But then so many doctors still won't take such claims seriously... (but it is improving, supposedly). I was lucky enough that the worst of my cramps faded with age. Used to have days where all I could do was lay down all day and try to nap through it, because no way was I able to focus on anything else. Now, between age and having multiple hormone-based treatments going on (for unrelated reasons), the pain is just an occasional annoyance and, much more rarely, briefly severe enough to interfere with my life. But again, I consider myself lucky; not going to claim it'd be just as "easy" for anyone else. I can also throw in that any of my period cramps that are enough for me to notice and identify are still worse (in my personal experience) than a fully dislocated jaw. And I guess the hole under my lower lip that came with it, considering I didn't notice the hole in the first place until I'd dotted blood spots all over my pillowcase. Then again... I was super out of it, since I was still recovering from the seizure that had caused those injuries.

[@Mel-qr5ob]

@@SomeOnlinePerson yes I have seen a doctor. They said that I'm "too young to have real reproductive issues it must be in your head". I've experimented with birth controls for a few years till I found one that stops my periods entirely, so I no longer get them. Excruciating periods seem to run in the family so it probably is some sort of propper gyno issue but yeah NZ doctors suck.

[@lema9509]

I like to think that the person at 2:53 didn't even mean Charles Darwin. They just have this random friend called Charles Dawkins who is really passionate about muscle tissue Also... did the person who wrote that skirt comment ...... straight up forget that ..... legs exist ???

[@augustomoreira7441]

8:09 fun fact: in portuguese, we refer to all hair that isnt on your head as fur

[@UltraMarineBlue]

Not all women have the same anatomy, for sure, but this is just.. wrong xD

[@eliasbischoff176]

There are many different ways to be a woman, but these posts have nothing to do with any of them

[@PokhrajRoy.]

Quote of the Day: “Women are people, Tim.”

[@kiarona.]

"Not embryonic freezers!"

[@jokesterrzerotheclown3199]

God the man wanting a ‘vessel for their future child’ sounds like a goddamn lunatic It’s really sweet though to watch Shaba and Jamie reading these and just laughing and enjoying each other’s company though. It’s so wholesome!

[@rockyember]

Shaaba’s consistent laughter throughout the whole video made everything 10x funnier 😂

[@NankitaBR]

9:12 Allow me to introduce Tim.... to a human fertilisation lab. It's a vessel full of smart people that can technically even create a child of him with himself (not sure the child will be viable though, but it seems to be what he is looking for...)

[@IamJenJen101]

That top is from target, also, off topic, I was in my local target the other day, and noticed they had mannequins of all different sizes. Skinny mannequins, big mannequins, medium mannequins, and they didn't just use the big ones to advertise plus size stuff, because most of their stuff comes in plus sizes, they just alternated them. Showing off many different kinds of beautiful bodies. Made me happy.

[@thirdmusketeerunderscore]

The muscle tissue one had me squawking like a bird in the first sentence. It's already so wrong.. I had to point out their flaws. 1. Muscle is built up by, basically, tearing your muscles slightly. When you exercise to your breaking point, it tears, then heals larger than before because of tissue. Steroids make it easier to tear the muscle. (If I'm wrong on this please correct me, I have a surface level understanding I heard a while ago, I could be off. I'm not a scientist.) Edit: I was way off, so I got a direct quote from a sciency looking website. It should explain it better. I was sort of right, sort of wrong, another user in the replies explained it well, so thanks for correcting me. "After you workout, your body repairs or replaces damaged muscle fibers through a cellular process where it fuses muscle fibers together to form new muscle protein strands or myofibrils. These repaired myofibrils increase in thickness and number to create muscle hypertrophy (growth). Muscle growth occurs whenever the rate of muscle protein synthesis is greater than the rate of muscle protein breakdown. This adaptation, however, does not happen while you're lifting weights. Instead, it occurs while you rest." 2. Almost everyone has some testosterone. Unless you have a medical condition, whether you're afab, amab, or intersex. You have testosterone. 3. What do they think the heart is? Or, like, other natural muscles in the body? Visible ones are hard to get, and are slightly harder to build up with less testosterone, but we wouldn't be able to walk, or chew, or do anything if we had no muscles.

[@Silversnakesinthesun]

Also in female bodies igf-growth hormone (and another hormone but I don’t remember which one, if it was estrogen or something else) is most responsible for creating muscle TwT bruh

[@Wolfgang8-Y]

Steroids (specifically growth hormones) trigger the body to repair the muscle, not tear it. More growth hormone just means faster and more efficient repairs and therefore more muscle. Other than that you're right!

[@MayMN]

As a cis woman who had high level of testosterone I wanted to cry when I saw that post 😂 guess I have to dial Charles Dawkins 😢

[@UmbraKrameri]

Muscle tissue can suffer microtears during excessive workout, but as far as I know that isn't a prerequisite for building muscle tissue. Our tissues constantly break down and rebuild. Muscle tissue builds when the body is forced to synthetise and build in motor proteins at a faster rate than they are broken down. Certain hormones can shift this balance, but the beauty of it is that they are ALL steroid type hormones chemically. So it is important to clarify what kind of steroids we are talking about. Anabolic steroids (testosterone is a good example) shift the balance toward synthesis, thus building muscles, while catabolic steroids (cortizol) work toward sustaining the resting state of the body, thus work toward muscle breakdown.

[@thirdmusketeerunderscore]

@@UmbraKrameri that sounds a lot better than how I explained it, thanks. I really have no idea what I'm talking about, but that makes sense, so thanks for correcting me. I'll edit my comment to the correct thing.

[@YuBeace]

I'm very white and light blonde, y'know I'm one of those "You should not be out in the sun" type of white. the hair on my arms and legs are practically invisible, I still have visible armpit hair. The only reason it barely grows anymore is because I had my sweat glands lasered to treat my hyperhydrosis. But it's been recovering surprisingly well over the years. So, uh, yeah. Hairs. Whoever doesn't grow armpit hair must have something odd going on.

[@ettaz]

I'm the same, blonde, I have very thin, translucent skin, and yet, my armpit hair and bellow waist is dark and thick. My skin being thin makes it irritate with almost any method of hair removal FML

[@YuBeace]

@@ettaz Oh I know the feeling, my immune system has some trouble so I'm very prone to infected follicles. I've had some big swelling before. :(

[@renn_t]

them giggling over "charles dawkins" is the cutest thing i've seen all day. and hilarious lol

[@kiingcandi]

2:14 Fun fact, period cramps tend to much as much pain as heart attacks. So try having a heart attack and bleeding with no control for 4 days 😜

[@yourneighborhoodana4584]

2:09 There was a video I saw where a man said that he apologizes to the entire female population (I would correct it to people with periods) but he said that he learned that some women get cramps so bad that it was as bad as a heart attack.

[@fallenbee]

2:53-3:15 this reminds me of when the last of us 2 came out because it had two very muscular women in it and everyone had a temper tantrum that the two main woman characters in the game were "more muscular" than some of the men in the game lmao. There's also a trans boy and a wlw relationship in that game and all the transphobes, homophobes, and traditionalist were very upset 😭😭 The game takes place in a post-apocalypic world so honestly that might be what they're talking about but maybe it isn't lol

[@wingedyera]

I also thought that this was likely a response to that.

[@vangu2918]

Some people shouldn't be allowed to buy video games if they don't have a sure enough grip on reality.

[@VeganAtheistWeirdo]

_the two main woman characters in the game were "more muscular" than some of the men in the game lmao. There's also a trans boy and a wlw relationship in that game_ Okay, I vaguely remember the transphobic/homophobic/basically bigoted-in-almost-every-way fuss around the game, but until I read your description just now, it didn't even really hit me before how batshit out of touch these assholes really are: We have at least that much "diversity" in my workplace, in the real fucking world. In a _government agency,_ in fact. In fucking *Florida.* Now granted, I'm speaking about an administrative group of approximately 40 people, so that's more than the total named characters in the game (I assume, I never even played it myself). But still, it kills me how these scared and "disrespected" bigots manage to not see the actual, living world all around them.

[@cmmosher8035]

When it mentioned the post apocolypse i thought it had to be refering to last of us.

[@fallenbee]

@@cmmosher8035I can't think of anything else that it would be referring to 🤔

[@milaorenisraeli1906]

btw, experts say that period cramps are equivalent to heart attack pain. and still all of those advertisements are telling us to not let that stop us..... WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF YOU SAW A MEN BLEEDING UNCONTROLLABLY WHILE HAVING A SIX DAY LONG HEART ATTACK??!!!! uh? what would you do?

[@milaorenisraeli1906]

@@samarnadra Thank you, you won't go and tell him to live life like everyone else because it should not stop him.

[@linneathesystemsdruid308]

Just a reminder Trans fems, you look pretty and I hope you have a good day Trans mascs, you look handsome and I hope you have a good day People outside the binary, you look positively perplexing and I hope you have a good day Xenogender people and non dysphoric trans people, your gender is valid and I hope you have a good day Allys, I can’t tell you how much the little things mean and I hope you have a good day (If this made your day please let me know it means a lot)

[@squeaktheswan2007]

Nice

[@nike8276]

I was having quite a bad day today, you're comment made me smile. Thank you! 😊

[@diamondfox1178]

@The Werewolf Of Scandinavia I'm way too tired to attempt to explain to you the idiocy of your statement. I'm just gonna assume your Cis and because of that I implore you to listen to the experiences of more than one trans person.

[@floof1138]

@The Werewolf Of Scandinavia it's quite possible for trans people to reach a point in their where they are no longer dysphoric.

[@xenonl9860]

Made my day

[@lunarsoul1737]

I've heard that when transwomen take estrogen (although my parents will not let me take it yet) that they can get some effects of periods, such as headaches and cramps, and I think that's really brave and cool of transwomen to do :)

[@kiarona.]

The way you two lost it at "Charles Dawkins" was glorious to behold 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@Otakugatothequeen]

I feel like enough has been said about this, so I'm just gonna enjoy the video and wish my fellow Autistics in the comments a very happy Autism Awareness/Autism Acceptance/ Autistic Pride Month! 🖤🖤

[@andrewbolt2012]

And to you, too 😊

[@sediaramus446]

Wait is that this month??? 😅 Time is a weird soup, and I was never given a spoon. . . . Happy month! 💚

[@Otakugatothequeen]

@@sediaramus446 Yep, April is the month for us Autistics! 🖤🖤

[@Otakugatothequeen]

@@andrewbolt2012 🥰

[@nikleasure9606]

Fuck yeah, just in time before I go to work 🏳️‍⚧️

[@joda7697]

"Eat a lollipop" is a great new alternative to "go touch grass" I might use that one later on.

[@rainbowvamps8988]

7:55 had me dying 🤣 I couldn't breath

[@charliestrickland6194]

I can hardly type for laughing!!! Shaaba...you crack me up!!! "The sanctity of the scrotum." Bwahahaha

[@Leena79]

I really hope someone sent Tim a plastic cup. So great your video showed up to cleanse my mind - I was watching the YT shorts, as one does, and was once again reminded of how bad the algorithm is: I never get transphobic videos suggested on TikTok, but it's a daily occurrence on YT shorts.

[@Elwene2fr]

The first line of Tim's Tinder description, we all reacted the same. It felt like I was in the room with you

[@TheOblivionMan]

Pretty sure "wanting a vessel" is about as big as red flags get short of having their ideal first date described as "a walking tour of the abandoned slaughterhouse on the edge of town."

[@rhokesh4391]

And still there's going to be a woman out there who jumps at that. Wanna bet?

[@durabelle]

To be fair I'd much rather go on on the slaughterhouse tour than date Tim.

[@iantaakalla8180]

Some people enjoy slaughterhouses. No one would enjoy Tim.

[@lucyannethrope7569]

You broke me 😂😂😂 And now my biceps are crying....and the rest of my muscle mass to. It doesn't exist anymore.

[@celeste_the_best]

Shaaba: (phone dialing noises) “Hello womb” 😂😂😂I can’t!

[@cravenlunatic1]

ok but the "just stop having periods" one is valid. i take birth control specifically to stop having my period, and i am a lot happier for it. anyway i love the energy shaaba brings to these videos! Edit: in retrospect this was a stupid comment to make. It struck me as funny at the time that the line "just stop having periods" was actually what i had to do in order to prevent the intolerable pain that they put me through. But i recognize that it's still a shitty thing to say to someone. I also recognize that simply taking birth control won't have the same effect for everyone as it did for me, or that for some people the side effects are unmanageable. I apologize for being insensitive about the subject. If it's better to delete my original comment, i'll do so, but for now i'll leave this here, bc i'd rather just take responsibility for my wrongness.

[@nivision]

I've got a hunch that as a transman who still has a functioning uterus, overloading myself with pregnancy hormones is likely to provoke its own special dysphoria hell. It also has side effects that make it inappropriate for some people. As a suggestion, it's fine. As a demand, it's downright sexism tbh, whether internalized or externalized.

[@cravenlunatic1]

@@nivision you're right, and as a non binary person myself i feel a lot of dysphoria about the long term effects that it has had on my body. I'm certainly not saying everyone can or should use hormonal birth control to stop their periods. For me it was medically necessary, and at the time no one gave me any better options. I guess i just push back on the notion that periods are necessary just because one is born with a uterus. People should know their options.

[@schokoloko2092]

Good for you, but I won't take the pill and risk my mental and physical health, just so I don't have to have periods. It can be an option, but I still cannot just "stop having my period".

[@cravenlunatic1]

@@schokoloko2092 that's fine, i never meant to insinuate that everyone had to do it. But to be fair there are other options besides birth control and i believe people should have access to them.

[@schokoloko2092]

@@cravenlunatic1 yeah, Sterilisation or are there other ways? So, I don't thinks it's valid to say, that periods are a choice. You may can choose to not have them, but that's not the same.

[@Moo-2310]

6:56 I went swimming an hour ago. Thanks for the horrifying image.

[@bluefox5331]

*falls limply on the floor, as I only have bones and skin, being a woman, with no testosterone to build my muscle*

[@eireduchess]

People I have on speed dial, my womb, my close personal friend Charles Dawkins and my therapist 😂

[@auggieb618]

I feel like when people talk about muscle, they forget about involuntary and smooth muscle...like...if people with estrogen-dependent bodies couldn't build muscle, I doubt they'd be alive? What about cardiac muscle tissue? Or the muscles of your digestive system? People are really so so so ignorant

[@byecatsstacey7467]

Oh my, I love the two of you so very, terribly much. Thank you for the fab collab! I literally choked on Shaaba's "bluetooth upgrade for all your wombly needs" I was laughing so hard. Excellent ending, because we all know dinosaurs are cool and transphobia is not. :)

[@francescablacknell4521]

A new T-shirt that says ‘I’m more than just an embryonic freezer”😂😂😂

[@tinkeramma]

This as a maternity shirt would be amazing.

[@sarahroberts9525]

I'd love to have a chat with Charles Dawkins, whoever he is he definitely needs a lesson in biology.

[@thebestwillow]

So Tim wants someone smart who is willing to just be a baby machine for him. Contradictory!

[@tinkeramma]

Intelligent women could be willing to use their bodies as baby factories. Surrogacy is a thing. Still won't be choosing Tim for the baby daddy.

[@thisisnotacreativename1741]

I was eating dinner with family while watching this video with headphones, at one point I laughed so hard that I cried and looked at my family after and they were all staring like "is this person really related to us?" but I couldn't tell them why I was laughing because it seemed "inappropriate for my age"