Conversation at family dinner: how do you hold your foot when you cut your toenails?
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@deadDuck the configuration & flexibility of male & female hips & knees differs a lot. I suspect that accounts for some of the trend.
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@deadDuck
The things you never consider others might be doing in a completely different way.
I'm a 47yo cis woman and I do heel to butt. Reading the other comments, I pray I'll never have to change it because of joint problems (I know, I know: the only way is to die before it happens. Sigh).
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@deadDuck transmasc, heel to butt. no other position gives me the same control and stability.
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@deadDuck Male here, I prop my foot up on something in front of me, like the toilet seat cover.
Occasionally I have done the "ankle over the other knee" thing, but I feel compelled to point out it's a very awkward configuration to be in if you're short, or if you're not thin.
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@deadDuck non-binary and do both!
+ Foot on the edge of the washbasin or anything reasonably high. But as far as I know generally sitting with one foot up in the way you described seems to be a male dominanted way of sitting in general, probably because it takes up quite a lot of space. Its also a common way man manspread at public transport and so on, so there might be something, like a tendency, to your observation.
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@deadDuck I lift my foot up, set it in the bathroom sink, and cut my toenails. My gender is "I don't live in a goddamn forest".
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@deadDuck I've seen the ankle over knee thing & I can't understand it - from a purely ergonomic point of view it's just about the worst way to do this... I guess men are just not very smart
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@deadDuck Those who put your ankle over your opposite knee - how do you get to the invisible side of your toenail to trim it well?
@cassolotl @deadDuck By twisting foot or sometimes foot and knee
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@deadDuck italian woman: foot on bidet
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@deadDuck female, foot on toilet seat, clippings go in. So closer to the (maybe?) typical female position, but with a twist.
(If that grosses anyone out, I'm truly sorry. Imo it's just logical.)
@alisynthesis @deadDuck Male, same. Anything else (provided you can do this comfortably) is just batshit insane. Sorry, not sorry.
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@deadDuck One foot on bathroom floor, other foot on bathroom sink. Cut the toenails on the sink
Gender = bi@SnyperWolf @deadDuck Same, just with toilet rim. Trans- and agender.
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@deadDuck I've seen the ankle over knee thing & I can't understand it - from a purely ergonomic point of view it's just about the worst way to do this... I guess men are just not very smart
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@deadDuck it's a skirt thing.
Anyway, what I do is to sit on the couch and bend forward to cut them.
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@deadDuck Knee up? How uncomfortable!
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@deadDuck female, stand on one leg, hold foot over basin to catch trimmings, cut
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@deadDuck it's a skirt thing.
Anyway, what I do is to sit on the couch and bend forward to cut them.
@edgeofeurope @deadDuck I almost always wear skirts or dresses but put my ankle over my knee.
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@deadDuck as a woman I say heel-to-butt because that'shiw I used to do it, but these days I pay a podiatrist to do it for me, so strictly it's done with straight legs.
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@deadDuck I sit on a toilet seat or edge of the bed and lean over.
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@deadDuck sit on a chair and bend down, enby
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@deadDuck male, I use a softer version of the «heel to butt» position: I sit on the toilet seat with the foot on the bidet in front and lean forward.
