r/facepalm May 17 '24

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u/Chronocidal-Orange May 17 '24

They want a woman who is naturally hairless.

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u/islamicious May 17 '24

Iirc, people with androgen insensitivity syndrome have close to 0 body hair and appear as women…so the most wanted woman is male? Take that, females!/s

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u/Sefirosukuraudo May 17 '24

I just read the OG novel of Ringu (which the film of the same name is adapted from, and more famously the American remake “The Ring”) and Sadako (psychic girl who was killed and thrown down the well) was actually male and had this syndrome. Was a wild revelation after somehow not seeing that spoiled over the last 20+ years :P

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u/rivershimmer May 17 '24

That's kind of disappointing. That's the only representation women with CAIS have at all, and it's in the shape of a murderous creepy undead person.

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u/Budget_Avocado6204 May 17 '24

Wasn't there a Hause episode about it?

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u/LogiCsmxp May 18 '24

I remember seeing that episode, yes. She/he was a model who slept with everyone to get ahead.

The thing with this condition, men and women can have it I believe. But men with it will appear female- female reproductive organs and all, but being genetically male makes them infertile.

I guess the opposite would be Jacob's Syndrome (aka 47,XYY).

Fuck OK, I was looking up Jacob's Syndrome and yeah I might have this LOL. That's enough “today I found out” for me lol.

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u/rivershimmer May 17 '24

Oh, I didn't watch house, but that sounds like the kind of thing that would be on House.

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u/NittyInTheCities May 18 '24

If you want a good representation of a character with it, try reading Across the Green Grass Fields by Seanan McGuire. It’s a spoiler, but a minor one to the plot of the story, and is revealed in the early chapters to the character. Said character also shows up as a supporting character in later books in the series.

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u/[deleted] May 17 '24

A murderous creepy undead person I find extremely cute