_(a stray observation [from December 2016](/2016/Dec/joined/#reading-the-janet-mock-autobiography))_
-Janet Mock's autobiography _Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love, & So Much More_ is an interesting example of an HSTS telling her story while adhering very strictly to the 2014 mainstream-trans-identity-politics party line about how all this works ("gender identity", sex "assigned at birth", _&c_.). I found myself wondering: does she ... not know the secret??
+Janet Mock's autobiography _Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love, & So Much More_ is an interesting example of an HSTS telling her story while adhering very strictly to the 2014 mainstream-trans-identity-politics party line about how all this works ("gender identity", sex "assigned at birth", _&c_.). I found myself wondering: does she ... not know [the secret](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blanchard%27s_transsexualism_typology)??
-(Or, you know, the story that [makes _so much more sense_ than "gender identity" as a first approximation, even if the underlying reality is doubtlessly more complicated than that](/2022/Jul/the-two-type-taxonomy-is-a-useful-approximation-for-a-more-detailed-causal-model/).)
+(Or, you know, the story that [makes _so much more sense_ than "gender identity" as a first approximation, even if the underlying reality is going to be more complicated than that](/2022/Jul/the-two-type-taxonomy-is-a-useful-approximation-for-a-more-detailed-causal-model/).)
Then we get this:
[One of the disappointing things about breastforms is that they're noticeably—not actually part of your body.](/2017/Sep/hormones-day-156-developments-doubts-and-pulling-the-plug-or-putting-the-cis-in-decision/#first-breastforms) There is an _edge_ between the form and your actual chest.
-In contrast, this bodysuit featuring fake breasts _and_ a fake vulva, all in one piece, seemed like an appealing thing to try out. Compared to breastforms, the bodysuit promised to offer a "bottom" experience, and, not a more _seamless_ transformation on "top", but rather to put the seams in a potentially less conspicuous location (at the neck/arms/legs, rather than on the chest where they interfere with the illusion of actually having breasts).
+In contrast, this bodysuit featuring fake breasts _and_ a fake vulva, all in one piece, seemed like an appealing thing to try out. Compared to breastforms, the bodysuit promised to offer both a "bottom" experience, and, not a more _seamless_ transformation on "top", but rather, to put the seams in a potentially less conspicuous location (at the neck/arms/legs, rather than on the chest where they interfere with the illusion of actually having breasts).
It only comes in one size, but according to the sizing chart, I ought to fit given my 37½″ underbust measurement.
-... it did not fit. I did _substantial_ damage to the suit just struggling to get it on: ripping a huge tear in the back to the left hip, _and_
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-(In retrospect, I should have taken care to heed the direction to apply talcum powder to my skin and the inside of the suit, before stuggling so much.)
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- * I could not get this on, at all: huge rip on the back side, and the zipper came off; the former seems unambiguously like "my fault", but the zipper actually seems like low-quality product?
- * should've listened to the baby powder direction before trying to squeeze it on
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+... I did not fit. It took a huge stuggle just to get it on at all, and I did substantial damage to the suit in the process, ripping a huge tear in the back (from the center to the left hip), _and_ derailing the zipper, _and_, somehow, detaching the sides of the zipper from the suit.
+In retrospect, I should have taken care to heed the direction to apply talcum powder to my skin and the inside of the suit, before stuggling so much, and on that count, I'll easily accept the rip in the back as "my fault", but the way the zipper derailed and detached so easily seems like more of an indicator of a low-quality product?
+ The cleavage is nice
The breasts hang significantly too low—but
+I would describe the overall effect as "cartoony."
* hard to fit member in urination option, I swear it leaked urine out side?—not sure how the hydraulics worked there
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- * cleavage is nice
* also: can't masturbate with the bottom on!
-I would describe the overall effect as "cartoony."
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-Customer service was very nice and helpful when I wrote to them about my experience.
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The product page had already warned that all sales of this item were final (would _you_ want to buy one of these used?)
+Customer service was very nice and helpful when I wrote to them about my experience.
- * customer service was very nice and helpful, offered glue for zipper (I assume they don't hire actual women for those jobs)
+offered glue for zipper (I assume they don't hire actual women for those jobs)
* I ended up cutting it in half to try to wear the pieces separately, but the cut was a little too below waist for the now-"shorts"
* I like the idea, but overall, do not recommend
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**Cost:** $600
**Rating:** ★½
It really looks like a woman's face!
-The skin color and texture is much more realistic than the cartoon beige of the Gold Seal bodysuit reviewed above.
+The skin color and texture is much more realistic than the cartoon beige of the Gold Seal bodysuit reviewed above. (I wonder how much it helps that Crea FX are visual-effects artists by trade—makers of male masks and monster masks for movies and plays—rather than being in the MtF business specifically, like the Breast Form Store. They know—I assume they _must_ know—that a lot of their female masks are purchased by guys like me with motives like mine, but we're not the _target_ demographic, the reason they mastered their skills.)
-(I wonder how much it helps that Crea FX are visual-effects artists by trade—makers of male masks and monster masks for movies and plays—rather than being in the MtF business specifically like the Breast Form Store. They know—I assume they _must_ know—that a lot of their female masks are purchased by guys like me,
+Getting the mask on and off was no problem at all.
- * somehow looks worse in photographs than it does in the mirror?]
+ * somehow looks worse in photographs than it does in the mirror?] standing a distance from the mirror in a dark hotel room, I actually bought it?!
+
* worst nonrealism: visible eyeholes; fix—sunglasses?
* going to reprise Ens.-Sylvia-Tilly-wearing-sunglasses at Fan Expo 2022 to see if I can pass at all
* Is it possible that I stretched out the nose area??
- * standing a distance from the mirror in a dark hotel room, I actually bought it?!
+
**Cost:** €672
**Rating:** ★★★★½
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