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Forget navel gazing...get out that mirror!
Warning: Links contain lots of talk about girlie bits and not in the happyfun way..

So over on stupid_free, a post is made mocking a post in vaginapagina discussing using hydrogen peroxide to cleanse themselves. wieimmer starts off the fun with this:

Oh, gosh. I'm a girl and I totally cringed at that. Seriously, can there be a TMI note? As much as I appreciate vag-cleaning tips, I'd appreciate a bit of a warning before I click on that. D:

People basically tell wieimmer to grow up, and how could she consider the links TMI when it says right in the post what it's about. Things still aren't horribly wanky until this exchange takes place:

bluemamie: If you were my daughter I'd send you to the bathroom with a hand mirror and some Planned Parenthood tracts. Stat.
:)

dindin: Because no one's ever complete without having examined their vagina with a hand mirror.

chrushdmb: actually, every women should examine themselves with a hand mirror.

dindin: Um, no. Every "women" doesn't need to, really. Frankly I have better things to do with my time and I'm well acquainted with my own anatomy.

crushdmb: Yes, yes you should. I've had doctors actually suggest it. And how long would it take? Five minutes? Tops? And what is more important than your health?

dindin: Hey, you want to sit around with a hand mirror, and your own crotch be my guest. I'll take care of my own health, thanks.

And it just goes downhill from there.

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snacky
2007-05-10 01:34 pm UTC (link)

It's really not that bad. It hurts, sure, but think of it as something akin to going to the doctor and getting blood drawn, or going to the dentist to get a cavity filled.

None of them are fun activities, there's some pain involved, but nothing you can't live with, and it's usually over pretty quickly.

Bear in mind, I'm terrified of the dentist, but I'm also taken aback at the thought of adults needing their mommies go to the doctor with them, for something routine.

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	esclaramonde 2007-05-10 01:38 pm UTC (link)
	I don't think I'd do it routinely, but maybe the first time - although with my luck, she'd be out of town that weekend or something, so it wouldn't matter. I actually have never had a cavity. I bet this is the source of my issues. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

snacky
2007-05-10 02:22 pm UTC (link)

I'm sure it would help if you were really scared. But honestly, it's not that bad. It's just routine discomfort, if that makes sense? If it's a really bad pain, then there's probably something wrong, either with the doctor's technique, or with your insides. And okay, I know that's not exactly reassuring, but (trust me on this one) even the really bad pain is over fairly quickly. It's not going to leave you incapacitated, or anything.

You know, it could be! If you are not used to any sort of routine discomfort like that, I guess I can see the problem.

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	esclaramonde 2007-05-10 06:09 pm UTC (link)
	My family jokes about how unused to discomfort I am. I tend to freak out at the idea of pain. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	snacky 2007-05-10 06:35 pm UTC (link)
	Hmmm. Have you ever had any pain? I'm trying to think of a scale that you could relate to. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

esclaramonde
2007-05-10 07:17 pm UTC (link)

Well, I did have braces, and even now when I wear my retainers, they hurt (because I only wear them once a week, lol lazy). I usually have had to deal with aches, like the retainers and the way your stomach feels after vomiting all day, and when I get my period I just hurt all over. There were a couple of times when I had my braces and the dentist had to use a sonic cleaner on my teeth where it felt like someone poked my gums with a red-hot pen, but other than that it's all been more long-lasting and not sharp and bad.

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funwithrage
2007-05-10 04:21 pm UTC (link)

Oh, the dentist is fucking horrific. The ObGyn isn't so bad--I can stare at the ceiling and think of obscure Mercedes Lackey lyrics--but the dentist is *drilling holes* in me. In my *mouth*. I'm paying two hundred dollars to be in a David Cronenberg movie, and it is Not Okay.

(Also, um, last time she didn't give me enough Novocaine and I flinched and she consequently drilled a hole in my lip. So.)

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	come_love_sleep 2007-05-10 04:58 pm UTC (link)
	Hah, you do that too? (Are Mercedes Lackey lyrics good for much else than that sort of distraction? Last dentist appointment I went to, I couldn't get "Her Father's Eyes" out of my head...) (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	funwithrage 2007-05-10 06:23 pm UTC (link)
	Well, I used to love 'em when I was fourteen. And I admit I still have a soft spot for "Battle Dawn" and a bunch of the Oathbound/Oathbreakers stuff. But...no, not really. "Can I still remember this?" distraction material more than anything else. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	come_love_sleep 2007-05-10 11:05 pm UTC (link)
	I was soooo into them at about the same age, and I don't ever forget poetry, regardless of how bad it is. ;P (Reply to this)(Parent)

	snacky 2007-05-10 06:34 pm UTC (link)
	I used to cry at the dentist! It was upsetting for everyone involved. Weirdly, I got over it by getting a new dentist, who is wildly, though unintentionally, entertaining. Between him, the hygienist, the assistant and the office manager, I am so distracted by oversharing, fighting, and their personal emergencies that I am too entertained to be frightened. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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