‘Dilation day two ….

[RudsyFarmer]

……. let's play. Where in an airport can I locate a clean, dry, private place I can lie down, take my knickers off and spread my legs?'

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12535827/Transgender-ex-Labour-MSP-Heather-Herbert-disabled-toilet-Gatwick-Airport.html

They are no words are there?

I have figured it out.

Google 'vampire lying in a coffin' and look at the images it throws up.

The look works for both male or female vampires. For dead vampires. For sexy vampires. For ugly vampires. For vampires just getting staked. Just all vampires.

But it's a universal vampire pose. It's not about what they look like as such, but the glazed expression, hand placement and angle of the photo. 100% the weird pose.

Most bizarre.

The question for me is: Why would anyone voluntarily lie down in a public toilet?

But the whole thing is really bizarre. Looking at the angle of the photo, it doesn't necessarily look like a selfie.

Thank you Herbert for sharing your Malaga airport code with the rest of the world.

Because they wanted to test out the story about perfume (sampled from the duty free shop) being made out of piss?

Men who do stuff like this and put the footage online are marking territory. They want women to know that there is no respite, no refuge from male sexual fetishism.

Exactly. I wish people were less naive.

Thank you Herbert for sharing your Malaga airport code with the rest of the world.

Why would they need to lie down to do it anyway? I've managed all sorts of indignities post babies and not had to lie down. I don't know how exactly it works but seems a bit... unnecessary.

Many blokes, I’ve heard, have a wank in Airports while they wait, which is why they used to sell porno mags.

It must be a strange realisation that the habit will be no more - with the inverted male genitalia. The sexualised nature of it - ‘spreading the legs’, is probably what a lot of unhealthily sex-obsessed men imagine us women do in the airport loos, as though we nip off for a wank like them. Men also often wrongly believe we need to insert things into ourselves to masturbate.

The whole thing seems to be designed to be alluring, living the dream of their pre-op fantasies, arousing envy in the men who spend their lives obsessing about it, being seductive towards heterosexual men at the same time.

There’s also a tinge of regret and disappointment in it - hope that the envy and seduction will be reassuring - as though the brutal surgery was the right thing to do.

I have heard that the floor of a public toilet is the best place to administer wound care 🤢

Ach you know, Switcher, we've all been there putting in a moon cup.

I have no idea why he chose to lie on the floor, and the hygiene angle seems hugely dangerous.

But the critical and screamingly pertinent point is why the FUCK would you take a photo and why the FUCKING FUCK would you post in on the Internet?

In what universe does the sequence of events make any sense? Any of it?!

I suppose if surgical removal of healthy body parts is the start point everything else past that point seems almost reasonable.

Well, exactly. Us women have an instinctive thing about hygiene because of our vaginas being so vulnerable to infection. Men clearly do not share that instinct and will learn the hard way when the go back to hospital needing antibiotics.

Why would they need to lie down to do it anyway? I've managed all sorts of indignities post babies and not had to lie down. I don't know how exactly it works but seems a bit... unnecessary.

I was wondering exactly the same thing🤨

I suppose if surgical removal of healthy body parts is the start point everything else past that point seems almost reasonable

Quite.

Surely advice is provided post surgery? But presumably most HCPs would presume 'don't roll around naked on the floor of public conveniences' would go without saying.

@Woman2023 Scottish Green Party I believe.and they are full of this nonsense 😒

Selected in a constituency where Labour were virtually certain not to get elected, I think. Not sure if that was General Election or Scottish Parliament election. Not greatly surprised to see this:

Ms Herbert was a Labour member who stood for the party and voted for Scottish Independence but has now joined the Greens, claiming Sir Keir Starmer's Party took 'no interest' in tackling transphobia among members.

That's just vile. I think my favourite part is when they are calling other people creepy for reposting their tweet.

LOOK AT ME!!!! EWW PERVE!!!!

Heather Herbert , I know he was a Labour candidate before but is he not a Green Party candidate this time round ? Does that mean he could be elected in Scotland ? Is he standing as an MSP candidate , because that is scary !!! The Greens are currently power sharing with the SNP !

But the critical and screamingly pertinent point is why the FUCK would you take a photo and why the FUCKING FUCK would you post in on the Internet?

Never forget we have our very own poster on this very board who blogged their way through their highly personal 'sex change' journey! And my god what a read it is!

Herbert is the next logical step in documenting your journey! When words just don't cut it! Take photos!

Ahhh, a little bird is on my window sill. I think it's a robin.

Pretty sure he has an executive post on Unison Scotland too . He did anyway.

Also fuming. How long was the disabled toilet unavailable to disabled people so that some narcissist with a paraphilia can get his rocks off

I don’t think that was particularly violent given the context. Bloke needs to understand he’s violating people.

Pretty sure, given the numerous X posts, Herbert used a private hospital in London.

So you’d hope (at least for everyone else’s sake) that Herbert had their own room.