I Closed My Boob in a Door

I think that there's more to say on "Boob in a Door" discourse. I did see some folks who were like "The boob in a door tweet ruined the book for me" which makes me think:

1. I probably should have found another way to make the point April's tweet is making after I heard from people that it was weird (even if I was technically correct that a real woman would absolutely tweet that tweet...since lots of real women have.)

2. I worry that sometimes "It vital that we are aware of the inequities of the world" that can be interpreted as "I should lot allow myself to enjoy perfect things and also I should be hyper vigilant for anything that may be imperfect...and thus I should not enjoy anything" that I think is not great.

But hey, it's always been a mess out here. You can get my books at places where books are sold!!

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[thore]

Apparently the german translators had an idea how that might happen, because they specified that the door was indeed a "Schiebetür" = a sliding door.

[annemcrowell]

I didn't even blink at this when I read AART, because I once closed my boob in a pair of crash cymbals. That has to have happened less frequently than door boob incidents, if only because there are so many more doors in the world.

[chaeburger]

I'm not a woman, but I was classically trained as a woman. I have closed my boob in a door several times. It could be because I have unorthodoxly large boobs or it could be my lack of coordination.

[willhouston]

I went to school for 4 years for creative writing and one of the lessons that kept coming up was "It doesn't matter if something actually happened; if it seems implausible, the reader will reject it." Prime example right here.

[TheGinger]

I can personally confirm it’s possible… a thing I never thought I’d put on the internet

[delecti]

I interpreted that line as like, closing a door while being slightly in its path. So rather than like "pinching my boob between the door and door frame", more like "smacking a door into my boob". I've done that before, and I would *absolutely* describe that as "closing my boob in a door" while tweeting about it in an attempt to cultivate a public image, like April was.

[LettersIsTooLong]

Love the census!

I also don't know what it's like to NOT have boobs. I asked my trans friend who got theirs removed what it was like and they said, "My chest gets cold now!" And I said, "WHAT?!" Blew my mind! I immediately turned to my husband and said, "Does your chest get cold?!" And he said yes and just. Wow.

[nonexistent-best-friend]

not a woman but i’ve done it….large chest + sliding shower door + retriever who desperately wants in to the water = perfect storm to slam a boob in a door

[AbbreviatedReviews]

"Boobinadoor" sounds like some kind of Medieval name for a very specific type of siege soldier or something.

[BrianComradovichRadovich]

You know, I read the title and immediately flashed back several years ago to a turning point in my own life. Where I'm hunched over in the driver's seat of my car, bruises forming on either side of my head and demanding of myself: "FFS, your friends call you 'the smart one', you have a law degree. How the heck did you just slam your head in the car door?!?"

It's a turning point, because prior to it the idea of people slamming unlikely body parts in doors was ridiculous sounding. Then immediately afterwards, literally everything seems entirely plausible. Could be brain damage, but if you say you slammed something in a door, I'll believe you. You don't need to explain yourself further.

[lousielouise]

Pinched on the hinge, sliding door, just being too close when I shut a door, absentmindedly standing in the doorframe and shutting it. All real examples. I cannot WAIT for top surgery.

[murrmurishka]

Hank has mentioned ‘a boob in a door’ exactly 24 times in this video. This is the content I’m here for!!

[BubbyFish]

The German version actually specifies that this is a *sliding* door, the plot thickens...

[SweetChuckPi]

The discourse I hate the most on the internet is, "All members of group X have a completely universal experience." Especially when framed from a member of that group.

[cranepetty]

Hearing you say "I've never had the experience of being a woman or being seen as a woman" meant a whole lot to my trans heart. Because I suppose I have never been a woman, but I was seen as a woman for 23 years. And in a pinch, I could tell you about my experiences with womanhood- not because I was a woman, but because I was thrust into it.

Thank you for using language mindful of experiences like mine!

[Kjane]

I always took the whole boob in a door thing to just mean that April had much bigger boobs than I do. Like, even the experience of having boobs is not universal, because there is no way on earth I could close mine in a door, but I don’t know what it’s like to have big boobs, so maybe it’s possible?

[rhlsy]

I can’t tell you how fast the title made me tap that notification

[robertwinslade]

As a guy who has accidentally sat on one of his own testicles, I wouldn't doubt that something like that is possible for a second

[jennenny]

I don't think it would physically possible *for me* to close my boob in a door without some concerted, conscious effort, BUT given that my ADHD self has closed my own foot, hand, arm, leg, shoulder, hip, hair, and FACE in a door MORE THAN ONCE... Yes, I absolutely believe that this is a thing that happens to people.

[hps]

1:51 that pause before "LET ALONE TWO" completed this moment. Perfect comedic timing. I burst out laughing.