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screenshot of a twitter post:
TomboysForBiden(but Anime)๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€โšง๏ธ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ posts:
Would you press it?

will you push the button?

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

Olufรฉmi 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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[โ€“] Rooskie91@discuss.online 55 points 5 months ago (1 children)

as a completely cis dude,

arch-user

Lol ok there bud /s

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[โ€“] drathvedro@lemm.ee 39 points 5 months ago (1 children)

arch-user

boykisser as profile pic

completely cis dude

[โ€“] 5C5C5C@programming.dev 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?

[โ€“] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 34 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] XPost3000@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 months ago

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

Mad strats

[โ€“] Zagorath@aussie.zone 30 points 5 months ago (1 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.

[โ€“] Sas 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.

[โ€“] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 27 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] Neato@ttrpg.network 22 points 5 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?

[โ€“] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] kogasa@programming.dev 28 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

No but you have 8 boobs like a cat, enjoy

[โ€“] GluWu@lemm.ee 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

I'm fine with my two boobs :3

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

[โ€“] TheBlue22@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 5 months ago

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

[โ€“] watersnipje@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] klemptor@startrek.website 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.

[โ€“] sxan@midwest.social 14 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.

[โ€“] julianh@lemm.ee 8 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.

[โ€“] pixel@pawb.social 9 points 5 months ago

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

[โ€“] sxan@midwest.social 1 points 5 months ago

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

[โ€“] Kidplayer_666@lemm.ee 12 points 5 months ago (2 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

[โ€“] superb@lemmy.blahaj.zone 28 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Why would the button change? Its explicitly a girl button

[โ€“] Kidplayer_666@lemm.ee 7 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Cause then it wouldnโ€™t be interesting for girls

[โ€“] itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 5 months ago

For girls it's just free money

[โ€“] BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee 3 points 5 months ago

Girls become girlยฒ when they hit the button

[โ€“] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I assumed the button was supposed to be single use.

[โ€“] basidialtiger 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Well, in that case, I'd like better odds. What am I supposed to do with a million dollars?

I guess I'd press it anyways. 1% is better than nothing.

[โ€“] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 5 months ago

A million bucks is a lot of money to transition with! Instant transition or luxury transition, win/win ๐Ÿ‘

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[โ€“] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 12 points 5 months ago
[โ€“] ssj2marx@lemmy.ml 10 points 5 months ago

plot twist?: you become a girl but literally nothing about you physically changes

[โ€“] archchan@lemmy.ml 9 points 5 months ago

arch-user

I mean...

[โ€“] match@pawb.social 6 points 5 months ago

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

[โ€“] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 4 points 5 months ago

Average arch enjoyer

[โ€“] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 4 points 5 months ago

This is the definition of a win-win scenario.