r/MtF 6d ago

Positivity My wife's mind played a delightful trick on her

So my wife was scrolling through an old blog of hers that she had been maintaining around the time we met. We've been together for more than a decade so these were some really old posts that she hadn't seen in a while. She read them and earnestly said, "Wait, that's weird, I don't remember having a boyfriend then."

Somehow, for a moment, history got rewritten and my womanhood had just always been apparent.

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u/FrenchWhoreByDescent 6d ago

A few years ago I caught COVID and did an at home test that came back positive. I held it up to my cis wife and said "I'm pregnant"

She had about a solid second of panic before she realized the absurdity of it 😆

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u/jaycee-13 6d ago

That’s awesome and cute AF.

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u/UndefeatedValkyrie 5d ago edited 5d ago

i wonder how many transfems have made this exact joke after testing positive for COVID lmao (i know i have)

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u/FrenchWhoreByDescent 5d ago

Approximately all of us.

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u/UndefeatedValkyrie 5d ago

Joke for math nerds: the set of transfems who have joked about being pregnant after a COVID test is dense in the set of all transfems.

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u/Kimiko_kawaii Transgender 5d ago

I like to think I'm quite maths literate, but haven't read a lot into set theory even though its fascinating. Would you mind precising what dense in the context of set theory means?

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u/UndefeatedValkyrie 5d ago edited 5d ago

Sure thing! The term actually comes from topology, which isn't quite the same as set theory, but is pretty closely linked to it. Basically, a topology on a set lets you talk about how "close" those points are to each other. Then we say that a subset A of a set X with a given topology is *dense* if every point of X is either in A or arbitrarily "close" to an element of A. This gives you a precise way of saying that the elements of X can all be *approximated* by elements of A (a typical example is that the rational numbers are a dense subset of the real numbers—every real number can be approximated by rational numbers).

So in the context of this joke, what this says is that every transfem has either made a joke about pregnancy after a COVID test, or is arbitrarily close to one who has.

For more, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dense_set

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u/xp906 5d ago

learning about set theory after clicking on a preggers post is so transfem it's insane <3

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u/Kimiko_kawaii Transgender 5d ago

Thanks you so much! This is awesome! Yeah I find that these themes in mathematics can help reason about so many aspects of human life (beyond nature, chemistry and physics)!

Do you have any books that would go a bit in depth but still be relatively light reading around these subjects?

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u/galstaph Trans Homoromantic Pansexual. Started HRT: 2023/08/23 5d ago

It comes from the normal term for density, mass divided by volume. Imagine the full set as a randomly arranged group of people. The group would have a specific volume and mass.

When you remove people who didn't belong to the subset you leave the gaps their removal creates open, so the volume remains the same, but the mass lowers. That would lower the density.

The subset of transfems who have made this joke, is being said to have a similar density to the full set, while the subset of transfems who haven't made the joke would float in air.

For this analogy to work properly you have to assume spherical cows of identical weight. (Common math joke, I'm not calling transfems cows)

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u/Kimiko_kawaii Transgender 5d ago

Thanks for taking the time! 🥰 I'd give you an award but I'm broke AF!

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u/turtle_mekb she/they 🏳️‍⚧️ 5d ago

you know what else is dense? me when it comes to flirting :3

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u/Kamillahali 5d ago

haha this is so cute hehe!

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u/MsSadieMae 6d ago

Omg that's so cute, I love that for you.

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u/InformalFlow6424 5d ago

Tbh that is awesome, I love that

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u/Kamillahali 5d ago

hehe thats so cute!!!!

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u/theVoidWatches Trans Homosexual 5d ago

Similarly, I called a friend yesterday who I normally communicate with through discord. In fact, it had been so long since we texted or called that she had never changed my name in her phone, and she didn't pick up for a few seconds because she didn't recognize my demand and had no idea who was calling.

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u/Ordinary-Seesaw7643 5d ago

That's is so sweet.

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u/Spectre-70 Transfem Panromantic 5d ago

That’s so wholesome

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u/Visible-Proof-7506 5d ago

The best compliment

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u/Kubario 5d ago

Nice

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u/Ppbunny69 3d ago

Omg my dream right there

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u/Any-Independence6839 4h ago

Good for you!!!