I Closed My Boob in a Door
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I think that there's more to say on "Boob in a Door" discourse. I did see some folks who were like "The boob in a door tweet ruined the book for me" which makes me think:
1. I probably should have found another way to make the point April's tweet is making after I heard from people that it was weird (even if I was technically correct that a real woman would absolutely tweet that tweet...since lots of real women have.)
2. I worry that sometimes "It vital that we are aware of the inequities of the world" that can be interpreted as "I should lot allow myself to enjoy perfect things and also I should be hyper vigilant for anything that may be imperfect...and thus I should not enjoy anything" that I think is not great.
But hey, it's always been a mess out here. You can get my books at places where books are sold!!
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Apparently the german translators had an idea how that might happen, because they specified that the door was indeed a "Schiebetür" = a sliding door.
AMAZING
Thank you for sharing!
Translator here, I wanted to say this but you were faster haha, either the translator had some special insight, or he added his own logic to the translation (which you generally should not do on your own accord in our job, especially not when directly quoting someone as you add words to their mouth) :D
@@CharlieTheNerd91 I think that I did say somewhere on the internet "maybe it was a sliding door" but I would be surprised if the translator saw that!!
@@CharlieTheNerd91 the translator also removed the slight colloquialism inferred by the "you'd", but i get that keeping something like that in German is hard to do.
Buben Adore is my new drag name
Love it!
HAHAHAHAHAHAH
Boobina Door
AMAZING!!
@@ivanajovanovic2337 Bubina Doare
I'm not a woman, but I was classically trained as a woman. I have closed my boob in a door several times. It could be because I have unorthodoxly large boobs or it could be my lack of coordination.
“Classically trained as a woman” 😂 love this as a conceptualization of socialization lol
This is probably my favourite way I've ever heard anyone say they were AFAB.
Oh my god, "classically trained as a woman" can I use this???
I too would like to use “classically trained as a woman” 😂
ok, new way to describe my experience with and relationship to womanhood unlocked, thanks 😂
I didn't even blink at this when I read AART, because I once closed my boob in a pair of crash cymbals. That has to have happened less frequently than door boob incidents, if only because there are so many more doors in the world.
Ah yes, the all important question is not "Are there more doors or wheels" but actually "are there more doors or cymbals?"
The answer may not surprise you 😂
You definitely deserve some sort of trophy for having done that. Not because it's hard, necessarily, but it sounds impressive & like it warrants compensation
Cymbalism!!!
Ba dum tissss
@@missybarbour6885 Ba dum *tittssss
Hank has mentioned ‘a boob in a door’ exactly 24 times in this video. This is the content I’m here for!!
Thank you for doing the work...
And this is the kind of statistical comment that I'm here for too!
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@@MaiseNow For a video of 5:28min length it’s a boob for every 14 seconds! 🤯 pretty remarkable for something that is a not an rnb/rap song
It very much started to have the same energy as the "Am I pregnant?!?" video
I went to school for 4 years for creative writing and one of the lessons that kept coming up was "It doesn't matter if something actually happened; if it seems implausible, the reader will reject it." Prime example right here.
Reminds me of the classic distinction between real life and fiction: fiction has to make sense.
@@myladycasagrande863 Exactly!
Reminds me of the movie Freedom Writers. So many people were upset about that movie because "why does the Nice White Lady have to save the Urban Black Kids?" And I'm just like, "I see where you're coming from, but.... it's a true story about real people who were, in fact, those races... The real people are even shown at the end of the film..."
@@KBRoller i know this is getting kind of off topic but i think people largely have more of an issue with the fact that the story about the Nice White Teacher helping the black kids gets made with like, a real budget, and the same movie with a Black teacher very rarely gets made at all
@@flowerheit4512 I mean... isn't that what the very famous film To Sir With Love is about?
I interpreted that line as like, closing a door while being slightly in its path. So rather than like "pinching my boob between the door and door frame", more like "smacking a door into my boob". I've done that before, and I would *absolutely* describe that as "closing my boob in a door" while tweeting about it in an attempt to cultivate a public image, like April was.
exactly, that’s what i thought too, it’s for sure happened to me
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pinching your boob between the door and door frame would be worlds more painful and also very difficult, but closing a door and your boob being in the way isn’t a huge deal if you have big boobs (I probably don’t even notice when it happens… it’s normal for them to get in the way lol)
Thanks for this explanation. That hadn't occurred to me. All of the people who posted about it on Twitter, I wonder which scenario actually happened to their boob.
"Babe, I just slammed my boob in the door. I didn't need that boob anyway." Is something I've said at least twice, and what actually happens is I lose my balance and try to grab the door for support and it starts to close, so I try to get out of the way, and my rib cage is clear, but not my boob, and then I briefly feel like I died.
Hearing you say "I've never had the experience of being a woman or being seen as a woman" meant a whole lot to my trans heart. Because I suppose I have never been a woman, but I was seen as a woman for 23 years. And in a pinch, I could tell you about my experiences with womanhood- not because I was a woman, but because I was thrust into it.
Thank you for using language mindful of experiences like mine!
This!
🧠 🤸
Same. I'm not a woman, but I know what it's like to be seen as one.
@@Jackbarrany what does that mean? please enlighten us.
@@adora_was_taken they're so excited about hank using inclusive language that their brain is doing cartwheels. That's my autistic interpretation of the emojis, which I am honestly not great at interpreting. But that's my take.
"Boobinadoor" sounds like some kind of Medieval name for a very specific type of siege soldier or something.
A classy alternative to toad-in-the-hole
Boubinador, a knight trained at Académie Boubin in Versailles
The Boobinadoor family, neighbors to the Fuckbythenavel family.
Boobinadoor started sounding like an actual word the more Hank mentions it
A disconnected 90s board game.
not a woman but i’ve done it….large chest + sliding shower door + retriever who desperately wants in to the water = perfect storm to slam a boob in a door
So the translator was onto something xD Thank you for the insight
Bahahaha, oh jeeze
ouch!
oof, with wet (thus more fragile) skin too... flex tape ain't gonna fix that
It’s a truly human experience
This is a great case of "it hasn't happened to me, I can't imagine it happening, therefore it can't happen"
"Every time I walk outside, it's cold! Global warming doesn't exist!"
This has got to be one of my greatest pet peeves lol
Romance readers do this all the time with the "character accidentally said a thought out loud" trope.
"I'VE never said something out loud by accident! Nobody would ever actually do that! Utterly ridiculous"
Congratulations. Do you want a gold star? Some of us make airhead mistakes sometimes.
“Of course crystal skulls are real. Could you make one of these?”
“No.”
“Could anyone?”
“Yes.”
@@holliebrokaw3716I didn't know that was a thing... I'm in the constant habit of thinking out loud, and it takes conscious effort to moderate myself and make sure I don't say the wrong things out loud in front of the wrong people 😂
Love the census!
I also don't know what it's like to NOT have boobs. I asked my trans friend who got theirs removed what it was like and they said, "My chest gets cold now!" And I said, "WHAT?!" Blew my mind! I immediately turned to my husband and said, "Does your chest get cold?!" And he said yes and just. Wow.
It's not something I've personally noticed since top surgery, but it might be related to not wearing a bra/binder.
I can answer this! I don't bind or wear a bra, and haven't for years. As long as i'm wearing a shirt that covers all of them (ie no sideboob visible), they're not usually cold. The only times I can think of it happening were when they were chafed for unrelated reasons and when I was going through withdrawal coming off my SSRI. That's not to say it doesn't happen - i just don't remember ever noticing it outside of those situations
Fellow boob haver, and uh I feel like my chest gets cold. It's just that also includes the boob getting cold.
I'm struggling to understand what "my chest gets cold now" even means. Do they mean like in their ribcage??
You mean that when my boobs grow in, my chest will just be warm forever? 🥺
@@iiiiitsmagreta1240 potentially, yeah!
I can personally confirm it’s possible… a thing I never thought I’d put on the internet
Even without a slidin door ive managed it, but thats just dyspraxia for ya; i can and will be clumsy in new and inventive ways each day
thank you for your contribution to this scientific research
Your secret is safe with us. 😉
@@SylviaRustyFae oh god as a dyspraxic trans women i guess this is what i have to look forward too
Same! 😮
The German version actually specifies that this is a *sliding* door, the plot thickens...
That is why when we translate contracts, we usually add a line like "in case of disputes the English version of this contract is the only valid one", if the translation adds more details (without the author giving them) something went wrong haha
A sliding door feels more plausible to me but now I think I need to check
Can confirm - sliding door more plausible 🤣
@@PixieApples does this mean you are going to try and get your boob in a door? lol! imagining you having to o through a ton of work to find a sliding door just to try multiple times to get it in a door and then having a eureka moment! "AH HA! I have done it! Ow"
@@CharlieTheNerd91 Well I live and work in Canada, and on my work contract it says that both the French *and* English versions of my work contract (which I was sent at the same time) are binding. Canada!
The discourse I hate the most on the internet is, "All members of group X have a completely universal experience." Especially when framed from a member of that group.
"It is called Mary-o twins, they look the same"
@@blarghblargh "How in the hell?!"
Yesss thank you!💯
You know, I read the title and immediately flashed back several years ago to a turning point in my own life. Where I'm hunched over in the driver's seat of my car, bruises forming on either side of my head and demanding of myself: "FFS, your friends call you 'the smart one', you have a law degree. How the heck did you just slam your head in the car door?!?"
It's a turning point, because prior to it the idea of people slamming unlikely body parts in doors was ridiculous sounding. Then immediately afterwards, literally everything seems entirely plausible. Could be brain damage, but if you say you slammed something in a door, I'll believe you. You don't need to explain yourself further.
Hahaha, clarity of potential brain damage 😅
I can’t tell you how fast the title made me tap that notification
Me 2!
I didn't know how he could do it.
I've done it, not comfortable!
(9^2)th like
It made me very hesitant because I'm on a work computer, on my work network. I got the reference but thought twice about opening a link with "boob" in the title at work.
Haven't yet had the pleasure of reading past book 1 of AART and have somehow managed to miss all the boobinadoor discourse! So I didn't realize it was talking about the book and immediately clicked because if Hank managed to close his non-existant boob in a door then I need to watch to be vigilant of this danger seeing as I'm significantly more at risk of this happening... ya know because I like *actually* have boobs 🤣
I always took the whole boob in a door thing to just mean that April had much bigger boobs than I do. Like, even the experience of having boobs is not universal, because there is no way on earth I could close mine in a door, but I don’t know what it’s like to have big boobs, so maybe it’s possible?
I have big boobs and this has NEVER happened to me 😂
Mine are frankly massive. I don't think I've ever done it, but it's totally possible. You could be talking through the crack of a door, and push shut to soon. The pinch would be nasty.
@@francescakyanda9182I also have a large chest and have never closed it in a door, but as much as they get in the way of friggin everything, I’m not surprised it actually happens.
I dontve big boobs, theyre somewhere in btwn B/C, but ive managed it before, and ive managed to catch one of my boobs on prty much every object in existence
The one that comes to mind first is that i closed the fridge and smacked my boob before, just bcuz of leanin over and not bein used to them yet
Bein transfem and dyspraxic, i feel like im dbly at risk here just cuz im clumsy and ive got these new body parts that i didntve for the first few decades of my life
@@SylviaRustyFae I am cis but strongly suspect that I'm dyspraxic, so I feel you! I am super clumsy in general, but my penchant for injuries reached new and impressive heights during puberty and pregnancy - two times when your body suddenly and dramatically changes shape, so I absolutely get how this would make it more likely! ...also you may have just talked me out of ever getting a boob job. 😂 Anyway, I hope that you adjust to your new shape soon and boob-related injuries decrease for you. Even moderately sized ones take some getting used to. 😆
"it makes me want to write more fiction" don't threaten me with a good time
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As a guy who has accidentally sat on one of his own testicles, I wouldn't doubt that something like that is possible for a second
Have you ever closed your nuts in a door?
I've never seen a guy move them out of the way before sitting down, so I'm more curious how this does _not_ happen than how it does happen!
@@jenniferpearce1052I've had people ask me this before. I'll give it my best shot:
1. They protrude from the *front* of the body (more or less), so they're out of the way of the thighs when standing and they're not underneath the body when sitting.
This does, however, mean that they *are* in the way of the thighs when sitting. This is why you rarely see men sitting with their thighs touching each other.
2. Everyone bites their tongue sometimes, but it's still mind-boggling how our tongues manage to so dexterously dodge our teeth so many times per day without us ever needing to think about it.
I think it's a similar process here.
1:51 that pause before "LET ALONE TWO" completed this moment. Perfect comedic timing. I burst out laughing.
It's not often I actually laugh at content but this got me
I missed that the first time, thank you 😂
Same, like LMFAO 😂
Agreed, perfect delivery 👌
I cackled at this
I’ve been so convinced your sensitivity readers just left it in for kicks
this is so funny to me honestly
Maybe they just wanted to see the discourse, which was the correct decision
Meanwhile I didn’t even question it because I’ve done it
"Man boobs" exist and are a thing, so when I first saw the title I thought: a) Hank is way too slender to have man-boobs; and b) If it happened to him, it's probably more like a door smashed into his chest from being opened from the other side by someone else. Imagine my surprise to find out what the vlog was actually about! (BTW I can confirm, as a woman, boob-door conflicts can absolutely happen, and yes, it does hurt like a mofo.)
I had the exact same train of thought, and I am still basking in the joy of this video being the funniest possible version of what I might have expected.
In Hanks words, "I don't know what it's like to have a boob, LET ALONE TWO" 😂
I don't think it would physically possible *for me* to close my boob in a door without some concerted, conscious effort, BUT given that my ADHD self has closed my own foot, hand, arm, leg, shoulder, hip, hair, and FACE in a door MORE THAN ONCE... Yes, I absolutely believe that this is a thing that happens to people.
Same!
@@annahackman2539 haha I don't know if I'm glad I'm not the only one or just sorry there are others who know the struggle.
I was very confused by that line. But I hadn’t had boobs in a few years so I could not test it and my wife didn’t want to help me lol.
So the but it’s for science didn’t work?
@@Kblmquist no. she said she didn’t want to be the test subject
@@Catsandpixels I'm so sorry you're married to someone who has no appreciation for science XD
I hope she doesn't find herself in charge of school curriculums, because she would probably terminate the science classes
Heard Hank talk about this discussion on (I think) Delete This! back when I was a boy and imagine my surprise when I transitioned and accidentally closed my boob in a door
The special joy of being a Nerdfighter, when the content matches your real life!
funniest comment yet
Pinched on the hinge, sliding door, just being too close when I shut a door, absentmindedly standing in the doorframe and shutting it. All real examples. I cannot WAIT for top surgery.
the hinge is the worst surprise!
Gl on the top surgery if/when you get it!!! ^w^
The fact that this could be hard to do is kind of the point. Like we've all injured ourselves in some seemingly impossible way,
Me: "I once was on roller blades, holding onto the shirt of a friend who was speeding away on a go-ped, and as soon as I let go, my roller blade hit a rock. I went flying, flipped about 120 degrees, broke my ankle, sprained my wrist catching myself, tore up a bunch of my skin... fun times."
People: "No one would be that stupid."
Me: "Hi, it me, I'm No One and also That Stupid."
Which sounds like a much more reasonable reading of the situation than "MAN DOESN'T KNOW THAT THIS THING THAT HAPPENS IS IMPOSSIBLE," but what're you gonna do, lol.
Right? I didn't even question it in the book because I've done so many ridiculously clumsy and self-injuring things that this seemed plausible as well.
I find it weird no one is talking about that. It's noteworthy because it's hard to do
@@KBRoller "NO ONE is stupid enough to-" _there is _*_always_*_ someone stupid enough_
As a person with boobs, I can tell you that even though I don't remember ever having specifically done this, I didn't blink at it in the book. It didn't even cross my mind to wonder if it was possible/plausible!
Same 😂 I don't have a memory of it happening, but I always run into things and stuff like that so I don't doubt that it's happened 😂 Apparently it wasn't unusual or surprising enough to remember, though lol
True. I didn't think twice about it while reading the book, but now that he's shined a light on the line, it has me wondering how is that possible. Lol
As someone with boobs on the... larger end of the spectrum, same. I never questioned the plausibility of this.😂
Same here!
Yeah, there is that. I've never done it but it didn't even cross my mind that it was implausible.
I’m super pregnant and closed my belly in a door yesterday and thought of this
oh my god. that is terrifying. Like the whole belly?
@@hopeo-w5961I have no idea what you're imagining, but if you think it's 'terrifying' you are most likely imagining something much worse than what actually happened 😂
Literally while watching this video and walking I just shut mine
The baby definitely felt it
@@hopeo-w5961I JUST did this like 30 seconds ago.
I rammed my belly into the door jam, grabbed the door knob and like fell sideways.
I shut like half the belly in there lol
@FinneasJedidiah lolol. No it just sounds like it would hurt so badly and that scares me. 😳
Yeah, it happens. It happened to me last month.
While I was on mammography shift. Yes, I'm aware of the irony.
I wanted to exit the room, but my right feet managed to step in front of the steel door I was opening, so when I stepped forward and tried to go through what I thought was the I-opened-it-wide-door my right boob slammed on the sharp side of the it was-not-supposed-to-be-there-door.
I think this is a temper to the old adage of "write what you know" because, yeah, a basis in your own experience - in Hanks case, getting big online - is great to have a strong skeleton for narrative. However, writing what you don't know with earnest and thoughtful research and talking to people who live different lives is pivotal for us understanding each other better.
I have never shut my boob in a door, and i may have looked at this sideways in another time. But now i know it does happen and i feel like I'm just a little bit better and more empathetic as a person. Thanks Hank. I'll go full the census now
Truly one of the lines of all time
It has the same rhythm to the opening line of "Call Me Maybe": "I threw a wish in a well."/"I closed my boob in a door."
Why is my immediate thought that the next line must be "don't ask me how long it's sore"? 😅
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@@KBRoller ok but that works so well
@@KBRoller
🎵I screamed aloud and I swore, 'cuz it was in my way🎶
🎶The door was closing too fast, I'm no good at hauling ass
As a Neuro spicy woman... I've done things like this. Not a full door, but a cabinet door. 😅
Losing it over your "und doch" reading because you sound like the German voice of Gru from Despicable Me when saying it lmaooo
Being an absent-minded person prone to weird little injuries, I never doubted that boobinadoor could happen. I was merely grateful that I hadn't yet managed that one!
"I never doubted that boobinadoor could happen"
I don't think I've ever seen a more beautiful string of words 🥹
It's a bad time, I would not recommend it! I've done it with a car door which SUCKS
You know those moments where you hear a thing so many times it stops having any meaning?
That's "boob in a door" for me now.
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@@twojuiceman Beeuuuwb in adore .
Bowl. Bowl. Bowl...
The thing is, humans are clumsy sometimes. There are all kinds of doors, too. Chances are, if you can think of a body part, then it's quite possible that somebody, somewhere has closed it in a door of some kind or another.
When the Smosh podcast episode with you as a guest came out, you guys talked a bit about your book, and midway through I stopped it, went out, and bought your book. Less than a week later I bought the next in the series. I’d say that podcast was pretty good advertising 😂
I was gonna say, "while this could happen, it also sounds a lot like something someone would say on twitter for engagement" and then I looked into it and Hank's even said April isn't above exaggerating a situation for twitter.
sorry the WHAT discourse
The boobinadoorscourse.
Question in the census
67. When did you start watching Vlogbrothers regularly?
doesn't have the option 2023
Literally, your book gave me a good perspective on what goes on with a Twitter Main character. And people who are famous or terminally online or both
This is real. It happened to me, and it was a fridge door at that! (and I definitely tweeted you about it when it happened) NOT EVEN NERDFIGHTERS ARE SAFE!!! 🤣 anyway now I need to reread AART.
I got the email with the census link earlier today and already filled it out, whooooo!
The fridge door is the most door for this
OH MY GOD IVE BEEN THINKING ABOUT THIS SENTENCE FOR YEARS I NEVER THOUGHT ID GET CLOSURE!!!!
Unexpected closure is how many boob-in-a-door accidents happen. Probably.
@@Tim3.14 😂😂😂
...I see what you did there
@@Tim3.14 you won the internet 😂
Always look forward to census time! Thanks for the post work unwind activity!
This is the best _possible_ use of the sentence "I don't know how it's possible, but I know there are people who have figured it out"
In my humble opinion, there's nothing funnier than someone who doesn't speak German trying to read German!
It sounded ADORABLE!
I was very happy he specified it was German and showed the text, because I couldn’t have told what he was saying from him reading. I am German. Nevertheless, I enjoyed his enthusiasm.
I closed mine in a dishwasher door before. Leaned over with no shirt and slammed the door right on it. Let me tell you, the pain.... 0_O
Caught mine in a tent door zip once. They really can get in the way so much.
😣
Is the 0_O your facial expression or an illustration of the results?
@twojuiceman ha!!! It is the old school emoticon face, but honestly, 0_O looks like the temporary after as well -_-
@@emilymartin5418 AHHHHHH
Saw last years census video. First time participating today! I was so excited to click the link ^^
we need a new office tour! I love seeing how its been evolving over time and seeing all the changes, it looks so incredible and so you!
Census time census time census time!!! 🗣️📊
YEEEEEAH
Can't believe it's already that time
The title was definitely unexpected.
Filled out the census! Always love to see the data!
Once they get past a certain size, you can pretty much hit/ bump/ get stuck/ pinched/ squished on pretty much anything. People with small boobs see "punched in the chin with their boob" and think it's fake. I straight up punch myself with one every few months.
While I would never have thought that possible prior, I also wouldn't have questioned it because I occasionally accidentally punch myself in the face when trying to do stuff, so. No reason to doubt it lol
I mean… it’s not an everyday occurrence… but it’s definitely a funny image.
My friend literally has done this, in a wardrobe door no less 😂
I mean of course the people in that subreddit didn't even bother looking up whether that was a thing that had ever happened. The whole point of it is to mock authors, they don't care if the mocking is justified (and yes, a lot of the time it is), they just want an excuse to do the mocking.
You said it better than I ever could have. That's the problem with any subreddit whose premise is even slightly mean-spirited, it always spirals into a den of toxic negativity within a year or two.
Ah yes, this has been the downfall of many a themed Facebook group and Twitter accounts
Twice. Sliding balcony door at a hotel and a pantry door situated on a corner, where I was trying to be all cool and just lean around the corner. I slipped and fell forward, catching my hand on the pantry door instinctively, which of course shuts the door.
If you have ever caught a belt loop on a door handle, you have experienced the "how did I even manage to do that" feeling that comes with.
As someone who has opened a door into the side of their head with such reckless abandon that they blacked out for a few seconds. I can completely understand how the ladies out there are getting their boobs in the way of a closing door and can empathise with them.
One time I was baking cookies, and turned on the oven light to peer into the oven and watch the cookies. I was talking with my mom, and my brother was doing dishes. God knows why, but after a few moments of looking at the cookies, he walked over and opened the oven with such a force that the handle struck my head like a hummer and I was slammed to the floor. I didn't black out, but it made my eyes roll in my head like billiards balls. While I'm still stammering a response that is somewhere between anger, confusion, and indignant suffering, he declares "YOU SHOULDNT PUT YOUR FACE NEAR DOORS WHEN PEOPLE ARE OPENING THEM." Meanwhile my mother was in tears laughing that her adult son had just been crippled by a delighted 15 year old.
The moral of the story is I wish my brother would open a door into the side of his own head, and I empathize with anyone who has slammed their boobs in a door
this title bro😭😭
Boob in a door reminds me of the concept of holding in period blood. Because, unlike most people with vaginas, I actually can hold in my period blood for a time due to a weird combination of anatomy and overactive muscles. Not a universal experience, but at least one woman in the world can do it.
Anyway, off to answer a census!
I could too, when I still menstruated! If it was a lot of blood I couldn't, but some I could. Definitely surprised me to find out most people can't do this
@HmmmmmLemmeThinkNo Ah the joys of an overly tight pelvic floor
No way! For how long?
@@geeksdo1tbetter it depends on how much blood is in there. If it's a small amt then more or less indefinitely (until I would go to the bathroom). If it was more then maybe an hour? If it was a lot then a few minutes.
And it's not exactly comfortable, even just a small amount. It's rather distracting, actually.
Times may be a bit off, it's been 8 years since I menstruated xD
@@HmmmmmLemmeThinkNo bodies are amazing!
ah this honestly makes me so excited for the research part of my book. just started drafting a few weeks ago and it's my first book, but i'm so excited for whatever conversations my research leads to
I don't think I've ever been so grateful for my flat-chestedness. I can only imagine how bad it would hurt to have your boob closed in a door.
its got its perks
disreguard the fact that i could add a t to the first word and that sentice would be very different. i did not think of that before I sent it loll oop
@@katw2254 lmao, 😂😂
And this is why I would never be able to write a good book. I would have just gone with the old finger in a door. As creative as my ADHD brain can be, this is something my brain just can’t achieve.
The mammogram comes for all of us eventually
I did the census! Sad to see the same old faults with it are still persisting... Why am I ranking my favorite coffee roast when I have never and will never drink coffee??? And there's no way to say that??? This is the case for dozens of questions and it makes me frustrated every year.
Are the questions required or can you skip them? Too late now since you finished it already 😅
just... don't answer those questions??
@shaynannigans Some are "required" in that the ranking is dragging and dropping options that begin in a set order, so there will be results no matter what. I use about 2 social media platforms, I dragged them to the top. The rest are just random all.
@@Diabloto96 You can't. They begin with a default ranking.
If they change the questions even slightly, it changes the results, and because they want to compare these results with other years, it’s better to lives with the faults then to start all over again
You can tell that you talked to so many people and got all sorts of perspectives. I, a woman, found that tweet and many things from all the women in those books very relatable.
I did the census as soon as I got the newsletter today. I kind of look forward to it every year.
I immediately lost count of how many time the phrase “boob in a door” was uttered 😂😂
Someone counted 24
Hi, German translator here, in the translation of the tweet it specifies that it was a SLIDING DOOR, either the translator had some special insight, or he added his own logic to the translation (which you generally should not do on your own accord in our job, especially not when directly quoting someone as you add words to their mouth) :D
Sliding door is still a door nonetheless.
@@rdizzy1 True, but it is kind of a crucial detail, and it appears the translator just made it up, so he changed someones direct quote and added context that does not exist. Just not what you are supposed to do (unless it was discussed with the publishers/editors/authors)
The translator is Katarina Ganslandt. Might be her special inside. Why did you default to he/his?
@@CharlieTheNerd91Hank mentioned online it was probably a sliding door. It’s possible she took that into account.
@@aivylotus4583 Insight*
You are right, it might be the case (I hope it is not). It changes nothing in about the fact that that is not something you should ever do as a translator (again, unless specifically told to do so or givenn the freedom to do so which is not very commn in this type of project). As a translator you are there to translate the word and the idea in the appropriate tone, you are not supposed to add details or change the story, if the author does not speak the language you translate to, he has (to a degree) to blindly trust your work, which adds a layer of professional responsibility.
as for your question, I defaulted to the male pronouns because that is just how I (and the vast majority of people on or pretty little planet) communicate, I am fairly certain everyone else perfectly understood what I meant. In my personal opinion, being gender inclusive in everyday speech and writing is often counterproductive because it easily kills legibility and pulls you out from the material you are reading, in German "Gendering" can get out of hand very quickly because in many cases you have to break traditional grammar and use relatively new guidelines/rules that are more or less defined and standardized, there are a few different ways of approaching gendering (weird word, but that is what it is called), and none of them is easy on the eye. All of that being said after 8 years and a few thousand sucessfull projects, I can only think of one client that specifically wanted to use gender-inclusive speech in English and one in Geman which was recently, and the client herself was aware that it does not look good on a blog, but she wanted to do it to make a point, and well, I work for her so I did what I was asked to do.
If your question was intended as more of a jab at me for "assuming her gender" I am really sorry if that offended you in any way, that was not my intention, if I knew she was a she I would have used female pronouns, but again I don't think that is what most people would take away from what I said. In the end, in this case, the gender of the translator is completely irrelevant because it is about the profession, and you have to do your job professionally whichever gender you are not saying that she did not, but just to explain why it does not matter, even if she had the "insight").
I just answered the survey and said I like Vlogbrothers videos that discuss deep issues. 😂
Hank, I am a longtime fan, and very much enjoy and appreciate all of the good you and John have put into the world, and the stuff that you’ve created.
I’m so happy you addressed this, and the explanation you give to it about expertise, context, and perspective is really wonderful. We should absolutely listen to people when they tell them what their experiences are. Can you please apply this same thinking to talking about the genocide that is occurring in Palestine?
"let alone two" 😭 hank
Wonderful video, but my comment comes from the nerdfighter census. On the question about the down time in the P4A, I actually really enjoyed it because it gave me less FOMO and allowed me a time to just rest. The whole weekend I was scared of missing out on niche p4a lore but I didn’t have to worry about that when I was sleeping. It really was a nice few hours. There was no “other (please specify)” box for that question but I wanted it to be said.
DFTBA
I love this so much! You're the best Hank! ❤
I literally just finished reading An Absolutely Remarkable Thing a couple days ago. I'm so glad Hank made this video specifically for me and addressed the main question I had from the book. Thanks!
i read that title in Daffy Duck's voice!
I went back and read it in daffy duck's voice, except it was actually donald duck's voice 😂 Not the same......
SAME!
"I closed my boob in the car door"
"You closed your boob in the car door!"
I just finished rereading this book and it's AMAZING in every way but that line still bothered me. Of course it's thoroughly researched though. It's Hank Green. 😂
It nvr bothered me, but ive done it, and not even with a slidin door. Im just dyspraxic and thus able to be clumsy in the most absurd of ways
@@SylviaRustyFae I think I also have dyspraxia (I'm Dx AuDHD) yet still can't imagine it. But brains and bodies are weird!
@@silverandexact If it helps, someone mentioned shape can be part of it too; and i think thats rly whats got me so screwed here
I went three decades of my life without them, so those first few yrs with them i was more likely to just catch them on things in general. But also they arent at all close together; in fact, they cud not rly be further apart from each other, each sticks out slightly not just in front of me but also to my side; so if my arms not blockin it, its quite a lot easier to catch it in either direction
I think the biggest factor tho is just that theyre smth i had to get used to bein there, and had three decades of exp of them not bein there playin against me when it came to my muscle memory
Its a perfect storm with all those things, tho i also know ive seen plenty of other transfems talk about exps with smackin boobs way more than one rly wudve expected. Usually whilst also mentionin how euphoric it feels even tho it hurts a ton; its just, it hurts cuz theyre finally there to get in the way all the time
I finally got around to reading both your books and they were like, significantly better than I expected?? I thought they would be pretty good but I was not prepared for them being THAT good
This is the most entertaining video I've watched in a very long time, I'm crying 😭😭😭
Hank… I believe you are in a unique position to do research on something no one else can do research on
AYEO why was I thinking about this quote yesterday??? I genuinely don’t remember why
I was so excited to get the email about the census!!!!!
Ever since I got the notification about this video, its title has been stuck in my head sung to the melody of Love is an open door
This is now my favorite video you've ever made.
I was just thinking about this literally yesterday, Hank. This is my second premonition proved right today.
THE GASP I GUSP. THE CENSUS!!! IM SO EXCITED I WAS WORRIED THERE WASNT GONNA BE ONE. IM SO HYPED FOR THE ANALYSIS
Love the survery! Have completed it every year!
I mean… no bra and a sufficiently large bust would make it pretty possible, I think! I shockingly haven’t done this but it certainly didn’t strike me as odd, just made me think she must be fairly busty. Once you get past a certain size they just don’t stay in place very well outside of a well-fitted comfy bra!
Reminds me of Dawn French being interviewed by Graham Norton years ago saying she felt sorry for people with small boobs because they won't ever have the experience of waking up with one in your armpit.
Just finished re-listening to AART yesterday on Libby so I could finally listen to ABFE only to find out my library has a 38 person hold list on Libby for ABFE
Yo! You should have a Nerdfighteria meet up ... at your library!!
I’m soo soo happy about the timing of this video. After years of delaying, I finally read both the Carl books this week and I have a very fresh memory of reading this bit and getting up to try and close my boob in the door (not to hurt myself, just to see if it was even possible). It didn’t happen….so I made a mental note to ask my better endowed friend to check if it’s possible for her. But this video clears it right up so now I don’t have to ask her. Thanks Hank 😆
PS - The books were lovely, and ABFE is one of my new favourites 💙
I haven't read An Absolutely Remarkable Thing (I own it, just haven't read it yet) and I thought this was Hanks weird way of telling us he got a mammogram. 😂
I'm only 25 and I've done this multiple times. Don't ask me how, I can't explain it either, but it does happen. A lot.
Back from census: the streaming services question is missing a "none" option :) We get all our Entertainment from youtube/twitch.
Also the Veritasium question was extremely random. Also should have had options like "I've watched him before".
Right?? I love Veritasium but that question was extremely random and weird. I hope he explains it in the census debrief video.
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I don't think I'm really involved enough to fill out the census, but i look forward to seeing the results!
I don't really watch videos from you guys regularly, but I always find the ones that CZcams recommends to be interesting/fun to watch. Hopefully my input on the survey keeps your data from being too sparse!
Best title since the giraffe nookie videos
I closed my boob in a laptop yesterday, so I’ve stopped questioning what’s possible
In the census you asked what kind of vlogbrothers videos I want to see. I didn't know the answer, but this. This is an excellent example of the kind of content I love to see. Also, Hank, I'd love to hear more about what nuanced things you learned about women's experience through the women who read your book to give you feedback.
This
Yay! The Census! I'm a data nerd here for the annual tradition.