I don't know... rhinoplasty is rhinoplasty, whether it's done for aesthetic or physiological (breathing) reasons.
But even allowing for the use of different terms, "top surgery" is still a deliberately unclear euphemism chosen precisely because it hides what it does. So if you want a different term, drop the Latin and call it "breast rem…
I don't know... rhinoplasty is rhinoplasty, whether it's done for aesthetic or physiological (breathing) reasons.
But even allowing for the use of different terms, "top surgery" is still a deliberately unclear euphemism chosen precisely because it hides what it does. So if you want a different term, drop the Latin and call it "breast removal" or the like. But not "top surgery" (and "bottom surgery is even worse), which sounds like how you'd explain it to a toddler.
I guess "Top surgery" though _also_ lets you combine both breast augmentation (for trans females) and breast removal (for trans males)
"Bottom surgery" then covers both vaginoplasty and phalloplasty.
I agree that the terms are partly chosen to sound less invasive/serious, but they do _also_ differentiate/categorize in a useful way.
And aren't even 'mastectomy' and 'rhinoplasty' chosen for how they sound?
'Rhinoplasty' sounds much more serious than 'nose job' so it doesn't sound like a vanity project.
'Mastectomy' I think sounds (or sounded - once everyone knows what it means the euphemism treadmill has done its work and they sound the same) less bad than 'breast removal'.
I don't know... rhinoplasty is rhinoplasty, whether it's done for aesthetic or physiological (breathing) reasons.
But even allowing for the use of different terms, "top surgery" is still a deliberately unclear euphemism chosen precisely because it hides what it does. So if you want a different term, drop the Latin and call it "breast removal" or the like. But not "top surgery" (and "bottom surgery is even worse), which sounds like how you'd explain it to a toddler.
I guess "Top surgery" though _also_ lets you combine both breast augmentation (for trans females) and breast removal (for trans males)
"Bottom surgery" then covers both vaginoplasty and phalloplasty.
I agree that the terms are partly chosen to sound less invasive/serious, but they do _also_ differentiate/categorize in a useful way.
And aren't even 'mastectomy' and 'rhinoplasty' chosen for how they sound?
'Rhinoplasty' sounds much more serious than 'nose job' so it doesn't sound like a vanity project.
'Mastectomy' I think sounds (or sounded - once everyone knows what it means the euphemism treadmill has done its work and they sound the same) less bad than 'breast removal'.
Correction: mastectomy is based on Greek, not Latin.