So I heard about this experiment kids tend to test out in middle/high school where you bend over and lift a folding chair (or other light chair) while keeping your lower half of your body against the wall, as well as another in which a chair is placed between you and the wall, you stand pretty much straight with your head against the wall, and attempt to pick the chair up (there was even a third where you just try to get your head off the wall without using your arms...they all are based off the same fundamental property, though).
The science behind it is explained as a difference in the location of center of gravity. Boys are said to have a higher CG, and girls a lower one (obviously, since females are built to be able to carry the weight of a developing child).
Anyway, I tried all three variations and failed miserably. I even fell over trying to pick up the chair at one point :P
Has anyone ever done this, and if so, how'd it go?
This wouldn't prove anything as it is your brain that is male, if you are trans and not your body. If it was your body you wouldn't need stuff like top surgery. However, there are individual differences in all sorts of things.
--Jay
Its an old party trick, if I remember, a woman can lift the chair off the ground and then stand but a man can't.
could someone post up a video or something on how to do this chair-experiement.
http://youtu.be/sHHWh3meeJU (http://youtu.be/sHHWh3meeJU)
2 minutes is around where a woman does it. You have to do it with your feet together, and not take a step. Most of the guys end up falling forward.
You realize what I'm going to try the moment I get home, right?
My favourite experiment was to put my hands on 2 desks and swing myself like a pendulim.
just tried that with my fold up chair
can't do it lol
I did it, but just barely. I felt like I knew what to expect, so I think that helped. But my feet didn't move and I didn't push off the wall with my head.
Quote from: aleon515 on January 07, 2013, 05:35:09 PM
This wouldn't prove anything as it is your brain that is male, if you are trans and not your body. If it was your body you wouldn't need stuff like top surgery. However, there are individual differences in all sorts of things.
--Jay
Oh, of course not! I just heard some rather immature individuals citing it as a valid way to tell a boy's body from a girl's, got curious and tried it myself, completely failed at it, and was interested to know how others on here did when they performed the same experiment. It pretty much has to do with boys having a higher center of gravity, not whether or not they identified as male or female. Sorry if there was any confusion ^^
Ok sounds fun anyway.
--Jay
Oh wow. I did this in middle school and passed. :/ A lot of people bullied me and said that meant I was - er - a trans woman*. Fun times.
*They obviously did not use the polite term. Oops.
Just tried it. I'm bottom heavy so it was easy. I really hope to fail miserably at this someday. Lol.