You know something we don’t get taught often? Why bodies with uteri often have a slight pouche. You wanna know why? Because the uterus leans against the outside wall of the abdominal cavity. The uterus is literally making that little pouche, the belly that we call fat all the fucking time, and that’s why it’s so fucking hard to get a absolutely flat belly! And thank fuck for having a female anatomy professor who is old enough and feminist enough to not give a damn and cheerfully tell us all the details that a male professor might have thought unimportant. Cause fuck this society that ignores organs in order to fat-shame us.
Oh man, I really do appreciate the sentiment here but I have to interject as both a nurse and a chronic “um, actually”-er:
If you’re not pregnant and don’t have a uterus-enlarging condition like fibroids, your uterus is tiny. It’s about the size of a small pear. Also, it sits behind the bladder and a thick layer of abdominal muscle. It’s very unlikely to make a big obvious imprint through your skin.
So the bad news is, that little (or big) pooch on your belly is probably fat or loose skin. The good news is, fat and loose skin are also totally natural and healthy parts of your body, and you don’t have to make excuses for them.
iliad au where everything is the same except every time agamemnon goes on an angry rant he prefaces it with “aga-scuse me???”
“Aga-scuse me, old man,
don’t let me catch you by our hollow ships,
sneaking back here today or later on.
Who cares about Apollo’s scarf and staff?
I’ll not release the girl to you, no, not before
she’s grown old with me in Argos, far from home,
working the loom, sharing my bed. Go away.
If you want to get home safely, don’t anger me. It’s Agamem-non, not Agamem-oui.”
…I would read the hell out of a series of a chosen eighty-five-year-old woman who goes on epic journeys throughout a dangerous and magical land, armed only with a cane and her stab-tastic knitting needles, accompanied by her six cats and a skittish-yet-devoted orderly who makes sure she takes her pills on time.
Kimchi and Justice 