• fracture@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    3 days ago

    i know that the trans community around here overwhelmingly leans transfem, and that’s chill, but these hypotheticals always entertain me, as a transmasc

    like, does this button do nothing to me? does it undo my surgeries and hormones? does it give me gender dysphoria about my surgeries and hormones? it’s funny to wonder about

    however, i would not press the button to find out :)

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      3 days ago

      Plus, it’s only implied but it seems that not pressing the button has a nonzero chance of a million. I’d like a million

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      2 days ago

      Pay is OK for me in the UK, our minimum wage is decent. But if I try and use a toilet everyone will argue about it.

      I remember mocking Americans over a decade ago for such toilet arguments…

  • isleepinahammock@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Here’s some real horror. Let’s create a real trans version of Button, Button.

    One day a man shows up at your door and hands you a wooden box with a button inside. He tells you, that if you press the button, it will instantly change your sex. But in turn, when you press it, it gives, “a total stranger whom you will never meet gender dysphoria as strong as you have ever experienced.” The stranger than leaves to let you mull over your options.

    If you fall to temptation and press the button, the strange button indeed changes your sex, instantly and totally. You literally end up with the same body you would have had if you had been born the opposite sex. And you know beyond a shadow of a doubt that you just gave gender dysphoria to someone. You have cured your curse by giving it to another.

    The next day, the person you got the box from shows up to collect the box and says, “it will be sent in for reset. After that, it will be sent to a total stranger whom you will never meet.”

    Ultimately, you end up with a fully transformed body…and gender dysphoria in the opposite direction.

    • WIZARD POPE💫@lemmy.world
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      I have never felt any dysphoria so I would press it a couple times to compare probably. Si ce it gives someone else my previous dysphoria I feel utterly safe pressing it and not influencing anybody else.

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        Yeah. If anything you’re maybe gonna help someone in a less accommodating part of the world feel less shitty by replacing their dysphoria with your own.

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    3 days ago

    Is the button nailed down? I could make way more than a million by charging ten euros for each use of the button.

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    3 days ago

    I don’t think it would do anything for me… but if it changed my body to be more feminine then that’d be cool, I’d press it

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      How does it work on repeated button presses? Does it flip you back and forth between male and female, or does it just keep driving you further and further into the the female side of sexual dimorphism and female gender stereotypes? If you press it a dozen times, does it turn you into a 4’8" woman with a large chest, narrow waist, huge hips, and whose only desire in life is to become a tradwife?

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    There are so many men that propably would push the button. I wonder how many of them would want to change back after a year of period cramps every 4 weeks.

    Edit: Note: I’m not talking about LGBTQ+ or Trans people here. It was about “regular” men being confronted with the Fantasy choice of being a Woman by the push of a Button.

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      Entire comment I wrote thinking you might be an intentionally TERF-coded transphobe

      Everyone say yay for casually transphobic comments!

      Don’t know if you’re intentionally being a passive-aggressive terfy little bigot, or are just very, very uneducated and unlucky with your wording, but trans women (who are not men), actually get periods! Cramps included!

      And the regret rate remains below 1% regardless!

      I would like to know what you were thinking when you posted, but hey, it’s the internet, it’s easy to misunderstand people, so I’m just asking instead of assuming.


      Hey, sorry for being aggressive right away @SomeRandomNoob@discuss.tchncs.de, I really actually need to ask first. Did you literally mean it, when you said that “so many men would push the button”?

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        I Absolutely support LGBTQ+ People! My Comment was not made with Transpeople in mind. It was about “regular” men being confronted with the Fantasy choice of being a Woman by the push of a Button. That was indeed not clear from my comment. Thank you for asking! I added a note to my original comment!

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      Period cramps do really sound horrendous. If I was going to end up a smokeshow like zero-2, with the same main character energy & charisma, I’d probably risk the chance of having debilitating periods every 4ish weeks.
      If I’d just be a women but still overweight and average looking, I’m not really sure it’d be worth the risk.