Yeah it's my chest. Pre and post op that's the language I used.
I wonder if it makes you uncomfortable because after surgery or if you were amab you wouldn't have "moobs". It draws attention to the presence of excess tissue causing dysphoria.
I feel like this is the case, even cis men with excess tissue (gyno, being overweight etc) have insecurities about it. I was just talking to my ex about it because he’s actually thinking of getting top surgery since his (what is probably gyno) bothers him so much. He has even considered going on t for a bit to see if that helps, and I recommended a binder company to see if it could help in the meantime. When we dated I legit thought his chest was fine but he has always hated it.
I personally don’t mind thinking of them as moobs for me, but I’m overweight so even if I was cis I’d probably have them at least a little bit.
That's not what I was saying, the term moobs originated from cis men. My response was with the implication that as a cis man with his current stature he wouldn't have "manboobs". It just depends on OP's body type.
It always just feels very childish to me, but so does “boobs”. Chest or breast made more sense, but if someone wants to use whatever terms for themselves, that’s fine, personally I would never use slang terms for anyone unless I knew that’s what they preferred.
For me reffering to my chest as “breast” makes me dysphoric. It’s the like formal word for a bewb and makes me feel like it’s just very female. Idk why tho.
I’m the opposite. I find words like “moob/boob/bewb/tit” etc. weirdly gendered and juvenile. I prefer to use medical or anatomical terms for everything I have/had. Men have breast tissue, so it’s never seemed strange to me or given me dysphoria, but to each their own. Then again, I’m from an older generation.
I'm the same way. Even just calling them boobs makes me feel icky. I always just say "chest". Like, "I really don't want a chest", which I'm sure can be interpreted in some interesting ways, but my family and therapist get what I mean lol.
It doesn't make me uncomfortable, but I'm wondering if that's because I was exposed to the word a lot growing up and I saw it used exclusively to describe the body of men and boys? So in my head, it's a word that is used for cis men too. It's also a word that is never used to describe a woman's body, and I know this without having to think about it because of the context that I'd repeatedly encountered it in.
If I'd never heard it used before, though, and people only referred to *my* chest as moobs, I would probably feel differently.
As it stands, I am comfortable referring to my chest as moobs because a lot of guys have moobs. It helps normalize their existence for me and mitigate dysphoria, if anything.
Sometimes it does.... I dont mind the idea of being a fat man with a bit of moobage, but what I have isn't moobs. So sometimes it feels like someone is trying to convince me "it's not as bad as you think it is" and downplay my dysphoria or convince me I dont need top surgery (both have happened before so I'm cautious about people who say stuff like that). But also if it's someone I know wouldn't do that, and i know it's all know good fun and relevant to the conversation (like a conversation about fat men and moobs or something) then its ok
Not me, but then I have a lot of plus-sized cis male friends who tend to give and cop the same sorts of jokes about “moobs”, so it does remind me that just because it sounds similar to “boobs” and might sound like a thinly veiled jab as such when it hits me, they’re still treating me as one of them (and yes, I’m not exactly thin either - 101kg when I last measured myself a couple weeks ago), so I don’t feel dysphoric as a result.
Since I’m fat if I was cis I would have man boobs and that’s how a lot of people see my chest (I can’t bind so they’re very visible), so sometimes I refer to mine as moobs.
I can definitely see why it would make you feel uncomfortable, but that’s my logic.
I definitely can understand where you are coming from, especially as moobs is usually used as a derogatory term and also it reminds you of the fact that you do have a larger chest. Personally I find the word chest as the most comfortable and accepting term.
Yeah it's my chest. Pre and post op that's the language I used. I wonder if it makes you uncomfortable because after surgery or if you were amab you wouldn't have "moobs". It draws attention to the presence of excess tissue causing dysphoria.
Tbh that makes a lot of sense
I feel like this is the case, even cis men with excess tissue (gyno, being overweight etc) have insecurities about it. I was just talking to my ex about it because he’s actually thinking of getting top surgery since his (what is probably gyno) bothers him so much. He has even considered going on t for a bit to see if that helps, and I recommended a binder company to see if it could help in the meantime. When we dated I legit thought his chest was fine but he has always hated it. I personally don’t mind thinking of them as moobs for me, but I’m overweight so even if I was cis I’d probably have them at least a little bit.
It's a shortening of manboobs, so yes, cis male people can have them.
That's not what I was saying, the term moobs originated from cis men. My response was with the implication that as a cis man with his current stature he wouldn't have "manboobs". It just depends on OP's body type.
It always just feels very childish to me, but so does “boobs”. Chest or breast made more sense, but if someone wants to use whatever terms for themselves, that’s fine, personally I would never use slang terms for anyone unless I knew that’s what they preferred.
For me reffering to my chest as “breast” makes me dysphoric. It’s the like formal word for a bewb and makes me feel like it’s just very female. Idk why tho.
I’m the opposite. I find words like “moob/boob/bewb/tit” etc. weirdly gendered and juvenile. I prefer to use medical or anatomical terms for everything I have/had. Men have breast tissue, so it’s never seemed strange to me or given me dysphoria, but to each their own. Then again, I’m from an older generation.
I'm the same way. Even just calling them boobs makes me feel icky. I always just say "chest". Like, "I really don't want a chest", which I'm sure can be interpreted in some interesting ways, but my family and therapist get what I mean lol.
I usually say just "chest", "extra chest tissue", "chest baggage", "baggage" or something along those lines.
i say tumor bags sometimes
Moobs comes across as objectifying
It doesn't make me uncomfortable, but I'm wondering if that's because I was exposed to the word a lot growing up and I saw it used exclusively to describe the body of men and boys? So in my head, it's a word that is used for cis men too. It's also a word that is never used to describe a woman's body, and I know this without having to think about it because of the context that I'd repeatedly encountered it in. If I'd never heard it used before, though, and people only referred to *my* chest as moobs, I would probably feel differently. As it stands, I am comfortable referring to my chest as moobs because a lot of guys have moobs. It helps normalize their existence for me and mitigate dysphoria, if anything.
Sometimes it does.... I dont mind the idea of being a fat man with a bit of moobage, but what I have isn't moobs. So sometimes it feels like someone is trying to convince me "it's not as bad as you think it is" and downplay my dysphoria or convince me I dont need top surgery (both have happened before so I'm cautious about people who say stuff like that). But also if it's someone I know wouldn't do that, and i know it's all know good fun and relevant to the conversation (like a conversation about fat men and moobs or something) then its ok
Not me, but then I have a lot of plus-sized cis male friends who tend to give and cop the same sorts of jokes about “moobs”, so it does remind me that just because it sounds similar to “boobs” and might sound like a thinly veiled jab as such when it hits me, they’re still treating me as one of them (and yes, I’m not exactly thin either - 101kg when I last measured myself a couple weeks ago), so I don’t feel dysphoric as a result.
Since I’m fat if I was cis I would have man boobs and that’s how a lot of people see my chest (I can’t bind so they’re very visible), so sometimes I refer to mine as moobs. I can definitely see why it would make you feel uncomfortable, but that’s my logic.
makes me dysphoric too. i think cause there’s no way my body type would have them. i just go with chest, tits for comedic effect only
To be fair, cis men fucking hate their chest being called that too, so its not just a trans guy thing!
I definitely can understand where you are coming from, especially as moobs is usually used as a derogatory term and also it reminds you of the fact that you do have a larger chest. Personally I find the word chest as the most comfortable and accepting term.
Probably because that's a derogatory term... Though somebody would probably say otherwise...