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I am a brain in a jar: AMA

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theilltemperedqueenofspacetime · 18/12/2024 13:17

Now that I have your attention (hopefully), I have an AIBU. I come from the future, and, having lived as an Earth woman for many years in the 20th and 21st centuries, I then became a disembodied brain in a jar for the last one thousand years. Soon, medics will have perfected the technology to transplant me into a body, although I don't know yet whether it will be human, and, if so, whether it will be male or female.

My question is, am I a woman, or just a brain with some memories of being one? How is it possible to be female without a female body?

IABU - I will always be a woman, no matter what.

IANBU - I am a brain in a jar. If they give me a male human body, I will be a man.

OP posts:
CookieMonster28 · 18/12/2024 14:52

Are you feeling ok? 😂

MumOfOneAllAlone · 18/12/2024 14:38

You are being very very unreasonable.

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theilltemperedqueenofspacetime · 18/12/2024 14:20

VacuumPacked · 18/12/2024 13:50

what can you see ? and will David Beckham ever be knighted ?

Nothing. I'm a brain. David Beckham was never knighted, but he was Prince Consort to Victoria II, Queen of the Britons, for several hundred years after The War.

OP posts:
TwoLeftSocksWithHoles · 18/12/2024 14:17

Does your jar have one if those 'safety button' things so one can tell if it has been tampered with?

Nothatgingerpirate · 18/12/2024 14:08

I think you would be a woman.
👍

Startinganew32 · 18/12/2024 14:03

Why did I click on this?

bigkidatheart · 18/12/2024 14:02

wouldn't worry about it - a lot of people claim to be women without a womans body

you can be whatever you want princess

napody · 18/12/2024 13:59

grumpygrape · 18/12/2024 13:48

Would you fit a female human skull or are you more human male dick shaped ?

I love this place. Merry fucking Christmas.

napody · 18/12/2024 13:59

Happyinarcon · 18/12/2024 13:31

Did they still expect the brain to remember peoples birthdays and where to find the wrapping paper? And was the brain asking everyone to remember to check the cat litter tray?

😂

Errors · 18/12/2024 13:58

Wait, what?

CoffersFord · 18/12/2024 13:55

If you have a male body - testes instead of ovaries etc - then you will be a man. Unless in the thousand years you've been waiting, new terms have been introduced to describe people in your situation.

UpUpUpU · 18/12/2024 13:55

@PoliticalPossum, is that you? 😂😂😂

Eyesopenwideawake · 18/12/2024 13:54

Where’s Dr Hfuhruhurr when you need him?

MissScarletInTheBallroom · 18/12/2024 13:52

You'd be one of a kind. A man with the memories of a woman.

earlyr1ser · 18/12/2024 13:52

If you end up in an intact body that has been through male puberty, then you'll have strength advantages and a risk profile that means you don't belong in women's spaces, regardless of what's inside your skull.

If you reappear as a small boy however, you're no danger at all - boys and their mothers go to the loo together, get changed together, sometimes (sadly) seek refuge from violence together. Has anyone, even the most hardline GC person, ever had a problem with this?

The gender question behind your post is played as a male/female issue, but if you think about it, actually it is not. Likewise: the "debate" about male/female brains offers no answers. A look at the effects of testosterone, on the other hand, does.

VacuumPacked · 18/12/2024 13:50

what can you see ? and will David Beckham ever be knighted ?

nonbinaryfinery · 18/12/2024 13:49

...

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JaneJeffer · 18/12/2024 13:48

Now where did I put my fanny? I had it here a century ago 🤔

DecayingRelic · 18/12/2024 13:48

Are you a Goa'uld? 😆

grumpygrape · 18/12/2024 13:48

Would you fit a female human skull or are you more human male dick shaped ?

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theilltemperedqueenofspacetime · 18/12/2024 13:46

popeydokey · 18/12/2024 13:42

Were you conscious for the last 1000 years? If so you've reached a state/experience that no human ever has...

I think you are whatever your body is but your characteristics, behaviours etc will have been shaped by the experience of having an XX body and being treated by society's expectations of that kind of body.

It would be more interesting to compare the exact same natal brain living (from birth) in the opposite sex body to see the effects of entrenched societal sexism (and testosterone-fuelled puberty, muscle mass etc).

Yes, I've been calculating pi to trillions of places. Your research proposal sounds like the most unethical identical twin study ever. I love it!

OP posts:
popeydokey · 18/12/2024 13:44

AnneUulmelmahay · 18/12/2024 13:37

Hmmmmm.

<points at username>

Scum queen!Grin

LittleRedRidingHoody · 18/12/2024 13:44

No idea on the gender thing, but if you're from the future and really will answer me anything, I'd like some winning lottery numbers please 😂

EatTheBastard · 18/12/2024 13:43

Is your name Anne Uumellmahaye?

Henrythehappypig · 18/12/2024 13:43

Have you ever been in a rowing boat?

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