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As a trans woman, I'm very happy about this sort of advance, but I question why I'm seeing it at the top of my HN feed. A lot of people here seem to REALLY LIK

As a trans woman, I'm very happy about this sort of advance, but I question why I'm seeing it at the top of my HN feed. A lot of people here seem to REALLY LIKE vaginas. Just saying.

anon4 13y ago
What kind of person doesn't like vaginas? Except gay men, except those of them that do like vaginas in the aesthetic sense. It would be like not liking breasts or abs or butts or legs or penises. I mean, you don't need to like them sexually, it's just that, well, they're nice to look at.
- quiesce 13y ago
  Quite a few gay-identifying men go out of their way to make sure you know how disgusting female genitalia are to them.
- PhasmaFelis 13y ago
  I'm bi, and I think both sets of genitals look pretty ridiculous when not seen through the lens of arousal. The rest of the body I can generally appreciate aesthetically, but genitals are just weird.
arbitrage 13y ago
Is it that unexpected that hackers enjoy reading stories about breakthrough medical hacks? This is pretty amazing.
- logfromblammo 13y ago
  No. It is not amazing. This is a natural and expected progression of bioengineering technology, and rather easily understood. More complex organs will require either decellularized donor organs or volume-printed extracellular matrix scaffolds, combined with induced pluripotence in autologous donor cells. It will be a while before it becomes cheap enough for hobbyist hacking, but have no doubt that someone visiting this site right now will be biohacking on himself or herself in the future. I'm guessing magnetite organelles injected by syringe into the palms and fingertips would be a popular first mod.
  - PhasmaFelis 13y ago
    > No. It is not amazing. This is a natural and expected progression of bioengineering technology, and rather easily understood. You must be a blast at parties.
    - logfromblammo 13y ago
      That hypothesis is likely untestable. I would either have to be invited to a party, or host a party attended by more than one person. "Amazing" has become the generic "doubleplusgood" adjective of popular culture. Since I believe that words mean things, when someone uses "amazing" descriptively, I could give them the benefit of the doubt, and assume that they are also saying that they are overwhelmed, and incapable of fully comprehending the complexities in the thing described. I could also pessimistically assume that they are using "amazing" because it has become an increasingly common adjective in all audio and video broadcasts, and they simply don't care to use the vastness of English vocabulary to express themselves with precision or conciseness. Either way, I feel like I can call people out on using "amazing" with the sort of smugness that can only be found in a random guy on the Internet. Engineered tissue implants are not amazing. They are marvelous, spectacular, exciting, wondrous, phenomenal, stupendous, unusual, glorious, groundbreaking, and noteworthy, to be certain. But they lack the quality of essential, impenetrable mystery that I feel is necessary to warrant the use of the word "amazing". Mostly, I'm tired of hearing and seeing the same damned word over and over again, from people who apparently are not aware that it does not convey unconditional positive emotion so much as relative superiority over the one doing the describing. As such, if you think everything is amazing, you are describing yourself as having a severe cognitive defect. This issue irritates me enough that I am willing to burn karma on it. Don't even get me started on the people who use "journey" to describe something that involved neither literal travel nor a spiritual or ideological transformation.
stcredzero 13y ago
They are amazing! The different size ranges they must accommodate, including childbirth, make them an evolutionary "engineering" marvel. If the lab grown ones can do the same, that would make then an actual engineering marvel.
breadbox 13y ago
Possibly. On the other hand, the comments on this post seem to mainly show interest in the medical technology. (Just imagine the top-voted comments on a similar post on Reddit...)
- Raticide 13y ago
  Here's the Reddit thread; http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/22qhob/laboratorygrown_vaginas_implanted_in_patients/ http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/22qhob/laboratorygr...

As a trans woman, I'm very happy about this sort of advance, but I question why I'm seeing it at the top of my HN feed. A lot of people here seem to REALLY LIKE vaginas. Just saying.

anon4 13y ago

What kind of person doesn't like vaginas? Except gay men, except those of them that do like vaginas in the aesthetic sense. It would be like not liking breasts or abs or butts or legs or penises. I mean, you don't need to like them sexually, it's just that, well, they're nice to look at.

quiesce 13y ago
Quite a few gay-identifying men go out of their way to make sure you know how disgusting female genitalia are to them.
PhasmaFelis 13y ago
I'm bi, and I think both sets of genitals look pretty ridiculous when not seen through the lens of arousal. The rest of the body I can generally appreciate aesthetically, but genitals are just weird.

arbitrage 13y ago

Is it that unexpected that hackers enjoy reading stories about breakthrough medical hacks? This is pretty amazing.

logfromblammo 13y ago
No. It is not amazing. This is a natural and expected progression of bioengineering technology, and rather easily understood. More complex organs will require either decellularized donor organs or volume-printed extracellular matrix scaffolds, combined with induced pluripotence in autologous donor cells. It will be a while before it becomes cheap enough for hobbyist hacking, but have no doubt that someone visiting this site right now will be biohacking on himself or herself in the future. I'm guessing magnetite organelles injected by syringe into the palms and fingertips would be a popular first mod.
- PhasmaFelis 13y ago
  > No. It is not amazing. This is a natural and expected progression of bioengineering technology, and rather easily understood. You must be a blast at parties.
  - logfromblammo 13y ago
    That hypothesis is likely untestable. I would either have to be invited to a party, or host a party attended by more than one person. "Amazing" has become the generic "doubleplusgood" adjective of popular culture. Since I believe that words mean things, when someone uses "amazing" descriptively, I could give them the benefit of the doubt, and assume that they are also saying that they are overwhelmed, and incapable of fully comprehending the complexities in the thing described. I could also pessimistically assume that they are using "amazing" because it has become an increasingly common adjective in all audio and video broadcasts, and they simply don't care to use the vastness of English vocabulary to express themselves with precision or conciseness. Either way, I feel like I can call people out on using "amazing" with the sort of smugness that can only be found in a random guy on the Internet. Engineered tissue implants are not amazing. They are marvelous, spectacular, exciting, wondrous, phenomenal, stupendous, unusual, glorious, groundbreaking, and noteworthy, to be certain. But they lack the quality of essential, impenetrable mystery that I feel is necessary to warrant the use of the word "amazing". Mostly, I'm tired of hearing and seeing the same damned word over and over again, from people who apparently are not aware that it does not convey unconditional positive emotion so much as relative superiority over the one doing the describing. As such, if you think everything is amazing, you are describing yourself as having a severe cognitive defect. This issue irritates me enough that I am willing to burn karma on it. Don't even get me started on the people who use "journey" to describe something that involved neither literal travel nor a spiritual or ideological transformation.

stcredzero 13y ago

They are amazing! The different size ranges they must accommodate, including childbirth, make them an evolutionary "engineering" marvel. If the lab grown ones can do the same, that would make then an actual engineering marvel.

breadbox 13y ago

Possibly. On the other hand, the comments on this post seem to mainly show interest in the medical technology. (Just imagine the top-voted comments on a similar post on Reddit...)

Raticide 13y ago
Here's the Reddit thread; http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/22qhob/laboratorygrown_vaginas_implanted_in_patients/ http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/22qhob/laboratorygr...