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[–]Davethe_blank_ 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

forever. there is no point at which they can stop having to do that. The surgery is criminal.

[–]hfxB0oyADon't piss on my head & tell me it's raining. 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

"Dilated" suggests that it is a natural human organ that can and is meant to change size, such as when a woman's vagina dilates to allow passage of the baby that only women can gestate. It would be more honest to call the troon procedure "keeping it gaped" as in; to maintain your gaping wound by refusing to allow it to heal.

[–]Wherearethesane 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

"Dilate" literally means to make something wider, larger, or more open.

It has nothing to do with organs other than what usage you've most commonly heard it in.

[–]hfxB0oyADon't piss on my head & tell me it's raining. 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Interesting. I searched for "dilating a wound" and wasn't able to find any citations whereby people were trying to keep one open. The results (apart from a couple about tranginas) were all about how to heal a wound; not make it wider, larger, or more open.

Although the very first result was about dilation and curettage, which is a procedure to remove tissue from inside a uterus...

[–]Wherearethesane 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I directly quoted a dictionary. I never mentioned wounds. Just the literal definition of the word "dilate."

[–]jet199 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

And then there's the hairballs.