Conversation at family dinner: how do you hold your foot when you cut your toenails?

[ameliasbrain@mstdn.ca]

@deadDuck @Bowreality The "heel to butt" position sounds like the one you'd use if you were putting nail polish on your toes, and would need to keep your foot horizontal & steady while getting a clear view, with both hands in a controlled access. So I wonder if the influencing factor is not gender directly but whether or not someone paints their toenails.

(For myself, it sounds awfully uncomfortable given the size of all the body parts that would have to collapse together! I'm ankle-over-knee, foot extending over waste bin. But I also have no patience for nail polish.)

[deadduck@zeroes.ca]

@cameron29 At the same time? Alternating left and right? Or as the mood takes you?

[alisynthesis@io.waxandleather.com]

@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.)

[deadduck@zeroes.ca]

@AmeliasBrain @Bowreality You could very well be right! Maybe a gendered thing, but only indirectly.

[cameron29@mastodon.social]

@deadDuck I just do which ever works best some days it one some it’s the other and some days its both

[nilajones@zeroes.ca]

@deadDuck

Ambivalent gender, assorted positions for toenail clipping

Why do it the same way all the time?

I hurt my back badly this year, so my most frequent position recently is butt on wheelchair, one foot on floor, heel of other foot up on the bed

[deadduck@zeroes.ca]

@NilaJones Yikes, that sounds like a pain. Has it been difficult adjusting? Has your back recovered?

[nilajones@zeroes.ca]

@deadDuck

Yes, and no. I hurt it in April and it gets a little better when I do less and then worse again when I do more. It's pretty frustrating and I don't really know what to do about it

[stinerman@mastodon.social]

@deadDuck Male. I had to think hard about what "heel to butt even meant." Looks like I follow what your family thinks of us men.

[harriehq@app.wafrn.net]

@alisynthesis@io.waxandleather.com @deadDuck@zeroes.ca

Yea, toilet, tub, heck sink if I'm feeling bendy… Or sitting on my bed with like a towel or something… HEEL TO BUTT?! How is that even supposed to work?!

[janeinnj@newsie.social]

@alisynthesis @deadDuck Exactly my method!

[abetterjulie@wandering.shop]

@deadDuck I think it has to do with flexibility.

[bunrab@mstdn.social]

@deadDuck
Either, at random - sometimes one way with one foot and the other way with the other foot. (My name/pronoun buttons say they/them/any)

[miss_rodent@girlcock.club]

@deadDuck Femme-Nonbinary, also have hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrom which is likely relevant for my answer:
I hook my leg over my arm/shoulder.

[cassolotl@toot.wales]

@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?

[pinchy63@ottawa.place]

@deadDuck
Most of the men I know don’t cut their toenails but rip them off with their hands. They even do it at the office. 🤮

[davidbridger@writing.exchange]

@deadDuck I stand on one leg with the other foot resting on the seat of a chair, cut toe nails, then swap.

[superball@norcal.social]

@AmeliasBrain I’m F, heel-to-butt, and don’t wear nail polish.

[count_01@mastodon.social]

@SnyperWolf Toilet seat, but same in other respects. @deadDuck

[wizardofdocs@wandering.shop]

@deadDuck AFAB demiboy, heel to butt
and I feel like doing it the other way would be actively unhelpful

wonder if it's an assigned gender thing