effeminate transmen...

[insideontheoutside]

Hahah I'm like that with ear wigs. I've had sooo many bad experiences with them, my bathroom at my parents was infested with them and it's developed into a major phobia. Hahah I also don't like the spiders with the giant asses that are probably carrying 5942399848 baby monsters. I also scream girly and dance away from it.

Oh man that sucks! There was one time I was walking around my apartment complex and accidentally walked right into a big web. I knew what kind of spider made it because I'd seen the webs around before - a giant orange one EEEEEEE. So yeah, walked right into it and promptly freaked the f*** out right in the middle of the complex. There was totally a spider in it and I had no idea where it went. It was like a horror movie. *shivers*

[Nikolai_S]

Oh man that sucks! There was one time I was walking around my apartment complex and accidentally walked right into a big web. I knew what kind of spider made it because I'd seen the webs around before - a giant orange one EEEEEEE. So yeah, walked right into it and promptly freaked the f*** out right in the middle of the complex. There was totally a spider in it and I had no idea where it went. It was like a horror movie. *shivers*

As much as I sympathise with the insect problem - at one point my living room became a waystation for wasps (and I am really, really phobic of them) - I can't help but find the idea of you freaking out and doing a girly scream hilarious. I just can't properly picture it.

[Da Monkey]

Both of those situations sound horrifying hahah ahh! I would like to overcome my fears of them but I don't think it will be easy.

[lancem27]

Eurghh. We have earwigs, little black beetles, mice (not many this year though). When I see them I don't really scream anymore, I just kinda do a really deep gasp, haha.

[Da Monkey]

Hahah that's awful.

My girlfriend's sister's boyfriend had a spider crawl on his shoulder and he flicked it while screaming in a girlish way. Hahah it made me feel better about myself especially because he likes to out-man me a lot and is condescending. It was hard not to laugh.

[N.Chaos]

^LOL. ->-bleeped-<-, at least he flicked it. Once while I was camping a spider landed on me and I flailed so hard I almost ended up getting roasted.

I hate almost all bugs, but centipedes...I've ran out of the house because of those effers before. I'll kill most spiders and almost anything else (Long as it's not a bee, screw bees) but centipedes? To hell with that.

I'm pissed off right now because we've got a minor case of carpet beetles and I'm afraid to sleep, I keep thinking I'm gonna wake up with one in my ear or my mouth or something X_X.

[greekboi]

I'm new to the whole ftm scene (hi everyone!) and haven't been very far into my transition yet. I think that if I hade been born into the right body I would definitely be a more skinny boy (I'm a rather skinny yet curvy boy with my female born body) and my style would definitely gravitate towards the tight pants and makeup style. Since I'm stuck in this body I'm wearing much more baggy clothes...I'm considering starting T and having top surgery done, but once I start passing I think I will begin to go for that style. For now I can't wear anything remotely effeminate or genderless because people always say "You look so pretty, why don't you dress like a girl more often?" which bothers me. A lot.

[Bahzi]

I hate almost all bugs, but centipedes...I've ran out of the house because of those effers before. I'll kill most spiders and almost anything else (Long as it's not a bee, screw bees) but centipedes? To hell with that.

This, so much this!   I loathe those things.  I think the spiders are cute in comparison, and I leave them alive so they can help control the centipede population now, because centipedes are from hell.  Nothing should have that many legs, butt antenna half their body length, and move that quickly.  Wikipedia says they can move 2 feet a second- that's just wrong.  I found a baby one in my laundry basket yesterday when grabbing some clean socks.  I've gotten to the point where unless it's a huge one, I just go "oh, eww!", and look for an implement to kill it with, but I used to yell a bit when I saw them indoors, including the first time a couple years when a 3" long one was running past me on my bed. O_o  I probably did shriek a bit then.

[PixieBoy]

Spiders are horrifying. I watched Return of the King (third part of the Lord of the Rings films) yesterday, and I think that Tolkien is quite the bastard for including Shelob (giant spider monster) in his story. Once, I googled images of spiders (I was chatting with a friend about things that scared us), and I was so frightened by the images that I couldn't sit with my feet touching the floor for an hour.

[Sly]

Hahaha I actually love spiders... bugs in general really.  Although I'm not fond of the ones that fly.  Buzzing noises whizzing past my ears kinda freak me out at times.

Funny thing is, I think makeup actually helps me pass a little better.  Because it makes me look less like a girl dressing like a guy and more like a femmy gay dude.  I've noticed people sometimes giving me weird looks since I started wearing eyeliner, so I just give 'em a smile and little flick of the wrist. ;)  I mean, I'm not 100% gay... I like everybody.  But it's easier for me to project that image.

[insideontheoutside]

Glad it's not just me on the spiders phobia! There's other bugs I can handle but spiders are the worst (followed by centipedes and scorpions).

I guess one other way I'm girly is I fuss with my hair. Although now so do plenty of other guys.

[N.Chaos]

This, so much this!   I loathe those things.  I think the spiders are cute in comparison, and I leave them alive so they can help control the centipede population now, because centipedes are from hell.  Nothing should have that many legs, butt antenna half their body length, and move that quickly.  Wikipedia says they can move 2 feet a second- that's just wrong.  I found a baby one in my laundry basket yesterday when grabbing some clean socks.  I've gotten to the point where unless it's a huge one, I just go "oh, eww!", and look for an implement to kill it with, but I used to yell a bit when I saw them indoors, including the first time a couple years when a 3" long one was running past me on my bed. O_o  I probably did shriek a bit then.

Agh, 3 INCHES? I'm actually sitting here getting chills just thinking about that kind of nastyness. Eugh. You're a braver man than me lol, I can't kill them at alllll.

[Devin87]

There are very, very few feminine things about me.  I've only worn makeup twice in my life (literally-- no more than that).  Once was when my grandmother insisted on showing me how to put it on when I was 17 and I tried to wash it all off before going to work, but my manager still noticed enough on me to freak out about it.  And then there was when I let the gay guy at the beauty school do my hair and makeup before prom and again everyone freaked out that I had on makeup and a dress. 

Probably the only "feminine" thing about me that I'm going to miss is my ability to completely manipulate older men in positions of power.  I was able to get professors, priests, bosses, etc to let me get away with murder with my smartass-y brat charm.  Somehow I'm not sure I'll be able to pull that off in the same way after I transition.  But then again, I'm getting older, so that gift was doomed anyway.  Ah well.

[tekla]

DO NOT move to Northern California, it's spider heaven here.  Redwoods look awesome in pictures, up close, they are covered in webs, and no frost here to do a winter kill on them.

[Lee]

My parents' place is right next to a field, and my room was on the bottom floor.  There was almost always a spider somewhere in my room or bathroom.  I grew up paranoid that any itch on my foot was a spider.  That was one of the high points of moving.  I'm in the middle of the city and 30 floors in the air, and there's yet to be anything living here that isn't supposed to.   

[Da Monkey]

My parents' place is right next to a field, and my room was on the bottom floor.  There was almost always a spider somewhere in my room or bathroom.  I grew up paranoid that any itch on my foot was a spider.  That was one of the high points of moving.  I'm in the middle of the city and 30 floors in the air, and there's yet to be anything living here that isn't supposed to. 

30 floors in the air? I am soo jealous. In my city the highest building is maybe 14 floors hahah =( I'm excited about moving to an apartment building next month big enough for an elevator (6 floors hahahh).

[tekla]

Well just an odd fact that not a whole lot of people know (well hotel clerks know it because of all the requests they get) but a hook and ladder on a metropolitan fire department only reaches up six stories.  Anything over that, you're bar-b-que in the event of a fire.

[Lee]

Yeah, my mother reminds me of that every time I see her 

[Devin87]

My roommate woke me up at 3 in the morning once because she peed on a spider...  She woke up and went to the bathroom and then as she was about to flush she looked down and saw this huge spider as big as a tarantula (but I'm convinced it was a wolf spider).  We were at her parents' house in the North Carolina swamp.  She woke me up and I slammed the lid and flushed the toilet a few times, but in the morning when she told her dad and he checked it was still there, so he flushed the toilet a few more times and it finally went down.  So just be careful where you pee.

[kyril]

Well just an odd fact that not a whole lot of people know (well hotel clerks know it because of all the requests they get) but a hook and ladder on a metropolitan fire department only reaches up six stories.  Anything over that, you're bar-b-que in the event of a fire.

It's not quite that grim. We'll hike up the stairs to get you...you're only out of luck in the worst fires, or if you're both incapacitated and so overweight that it takes multiple firefighters to carry you (most of us can lift people up to about 180 pounds).

If you have the option, get downstairs though. Safer from the smoke anyway. If you think you'll have to pass through a smoky area, get a T-shirt wet and wrap it around your face - it won't help with the low oxygen content in the immediate area of a fire, but it'll catch most of the particulates which can interfere with oxygen absorption and cause coughing/deep smoke inhalation.

Next best option is the roof. Roof evacuation via helicopter is reasonably straightforward.