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the fastest transition in the west (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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screenshot of a twitter post:
TomboysForBiden(but Anime)🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 posts:
Would you press it?

will you push the button?

99% chance of getting 1 million dollars
1% chance of becoming a girl

Olufémi O. Taiwo quote retweets the post: philosophy twitter: can we agree that this is not a math question

tumblr post, replying to the screenshot:
arch-user
as a completely cis dude, | would press this button immediately, without question. There are a lot of things | would do for money, but shit I'd do this for like 20 bucks... maybe less?

arch-user
She said with all too much confidence

A DAY!??!?!

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[–] [email protected] 85 points 4 months ago (1 children)

as a completely cis dude,

arch-user

Lol ok there bud /s

[–] [email protected] 80 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'd press it a few times. In the end, I think I'd care way more about never working again for the rest of my life than being a guy.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Same. I'm about halfway done already. What's another 40 being a bit different? I'd be lucky to have such a varied perspective on life.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

It would at least make the last half more interesting because there’d be more learning, unless the button takes away ADHD the dopamine alone makes it worth pressing

[–] [email protected] 53 points 4 months ago (2 children)

arch-user

boykisser as profile pic

completely cis dude

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Everyone here debating the mechanics of the button or engaging with the question explicitly posed.

But I'm just trying to figure out wtf the bottom comment in the pic is about. A day? What day? No time frame is ever mentioned in any other part of the post.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 4 months ago

Arch-user in the image said they were a "completely cis dude" and would hit that button, then replied to themselves (~1 day later) calling herself "she" - implying they became(?) trans within that time period. The final response is from another person, incredulous at the short timeline between "completely cis" and trans

[–] [email protected] 30 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It took them a day to realize they're trans. The reblogs have timestamps.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Both reblogs say 6d ago

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago

The comment-times both say 6 days for the arch user and 4 days for the person commenting "a day" so I'm assuming on their end there was about a day time difference between the time the arch user posted the post about the button and realising they're probably trans, which is exceptionally fast and worthy of the day comment.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Girl? Girl implies youth. So, get a million dollars or be young again?

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'm pressing it 100 times

[–] [email protected] 30 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Well you got that 1% chance about 4 times by sheer luck I don't know what to tell you but you're Supergirl, now. Congrats?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Does that mean I get to be four times as cute :3

[–] [email protected] 35 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

No but you have 8 boobs like a cat, enjoy

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Judging by their username, that's what they want.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

I'm fine with my two boobs :3

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

Can I just get 8 cats instead ^-_-^

[–] [email protected] 30 points 4 months ago

My gf is bi so it's not like it would matter

[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 months ago (1 children)

If you are already a cis woman, does this just reroll your stats?

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I seem to be the minority here, but, while I'd press the button, I wouldn't mash it or press it a bunch of times, or eagerly press it... because periods. And PMS. And misogyny. But, mostly periods.

I think being a girl has some pretty sucky parts that is guys completely avoid, and for which I'm really grateful. And I think a lot of dudes who fantasize about transitioning sort of skip over, although I guess with no ovaries trans women get to avoid the worst of it. Although they still have to deal with the patriarchy, and that's pretty shitty.

So, yeah. I'd press it, but with some trepidation.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I've heard that some trans women get "phantom periods" after hrt, like the hormonal cycle still happens even if the parts aren't there.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Cis men have hormonal cycles too, it's just not accompanied by your body contracting rapidly or you bleeding out of your privates so men get to pretend they don't have cycles

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Get a million or be 17 again? Sounds like win-win!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago

I didn’t even think about this, for trans men this button is a Time Machine

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I have a question though:

If I became a girl through the button, the button would then change and give me a 1% chance of becoming a boy. I could just proceed to then press the button again and be myself again and get a bunch of cash

[–] [email protected] 39 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Why would the button change? Its explicitly a girl button

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Cause then it wouldn’t be interesting for girls

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago

For girls it's just free money

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

Girls become girl² when they hit the button

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Wait, we can push it more than twice. I'm smashing on that button until it breaks.

I can easily pay to transition back if the whole girl thing doesn't work out.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I assumed the button was supposed to be single use.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'm a straight dude and would press the button in a heartbeat because I don't see either of those options as problematic (as the meme usually suggests).

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Are you sure you wouldn't have a problem becoming a girl?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

So uhhh. On the premise that women can't slam this thing as many times as they want without consequences so they also stand a risk of a gender swap...

Why would we not just keep pressing the button until we turned back?

Okay but all of that gone, 1 press, these are your chances, fuck yeah. In a fucking second. This isn't a hard question unless you're already wealthy.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You can't just change the rules! Women finally get a win here! Free money with no consequences

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago

arch-user

I mean...

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I'm going to push it a bunch. What happens if I hit that 1% more than once?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

You become the ultimate girl.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

I'd hit it. A mil could solve most of my problems. Becoming a girl would just be one more.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

this shit is going up against TV Glow for the ultimate eggsmasher

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Average arch enjoyer

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

I mean if you mentally become a female as well as physically then it is basically just a new life (would be super weird for your relatives or significant other though!).

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