US women’s rugby player takes a bad angle selfie and idiots assume she’s trans

[u/nonetakenback]

[u/CrazyElk123]

butterfly her own bleeding self

What does this mean?

[u/elspotto → u/CrazyElk123]

She squeezed a cut, let’s say her eyebrow, together and applied butterfly bandages to hold it together. She probably needed stitches, but…the game!

[u/fury420 → u/elspotto]

Okay that makes far more sense, my first thought was what the hell is she cutting down the middle to fold open?

[u/elspotto → u/fury420]

Ha! You kitchen too. Yeah, sorry about that. I’ve always heard using butterfly sutures called “butterfly-ing”. Don’t even think of the confusion it would cause.

Although…if you look at some of the tales folks are posting about their rugby injuries, I wouldn’t put it past someone to fillet a limb if it somehow meant they could get back in the game quicker.

[u/Daxx22 → u/elspotto]

Pfft weakling. Get out the staple gun!

[u/elspotto → u/Daxx22]

Please, her teammates used all the staples. Of course that’s the first choice. lol

[u/LessInThought → u/Daxx22]

I thought there's something known as medical glue. Or just use glue.

[u/thecraftybear → u/LessInThought]

Please not the cyanoacrylic glue. Yes, it will close any wound. It will also poison you. And permanently stick your hand to your wound.

[u/Chuuucky24 → u/CrazyElk123]

One can only assume a fresh, healthy finger sprouted out of the injured one

[u/elspotto → u/Chuuucky24]

Hey hey hey! She was a rugby player, not a newt!

[u/an-original-URL → u/CrazyElk123]

Made a butterfly bandage. It presses the lips of the wound together, which is normally done in places where the skin is more loose, since those places have a hard time healing.

[u/DeconstructedKaiju → u/CrazyElk123]

Butterfly bandages (which roughly resemble the outline of a butterfly) are needed to close narrow cuts without the use of stitches (in fact if you go long enough without stitches they can-t even put them in).