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

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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] 5 points 5 months ago

Average arch enjoyer

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I’d press it as long as I get to keep my parts down there. I’m way more attached to my anatomy than my gender.

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

This is the definition of a win-win scenario.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 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!).

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 51 points 5 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] 30 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

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

Both reblogs say 6d ago

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Most likely just awkward rounding when the screenshot was taken. A lot of the time those post age indicator tags just count the number of hours between it and you then each multiple of 24 is a day without caring about when the actual date changes. So the first could easily have been at like 7pm one day and the second like 11am the next day and they'd both get abbreviated at 6 days ago if you were looking at it at like 4pm when you haven't quite hit the next multiple of 24 hours.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 5 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] 14 points 5 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] 14 points 5 months ago

arch-user

I mean...

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago

[–] [email protected] 52 points 5 months ago (2 children)

arch-user

boykisser as profile pic

completely cis dude

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

I like to imagine the profile pic changed immediately after the transition was complete, and at the time of the "completely cis" post it was something manly, like.. I don't know, hotwheels?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

She could have changed her profile pic after that comment.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 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 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Okay okay, I guess we can let you guys have the one win. :)

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 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 5 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] 1 points 5 months ago

That'd take some of the fun out of it, I guess.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I call it my meriod

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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

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

Exponentially increasing chest size. You don't want that level of back pain.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

You become the ultimate girl.

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

Press it a thousand times and then transition back 🤷‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 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 5 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

I'm wondering how literal "girl" is. Like, would I go back to being a little girl? Absolutely not. But would I go back to being like 20? Maybe! There's some shit I'd like to do differently.

However, I'd wayyyy rather have the cash.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

I'm keeping this button locked up until retirement, then

Mad strats

[–] [email protected] 85 points 5 months ago (1 children)

as a completely cis dude,

arch-user

Lol ok there bud /s

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