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How to get out of an uncomfortable egg culture situation with this one simple trick.

Real talk: Calling people eggs is a violation of the egg prime directive, and is considered invalidating as you are trying to say that a person is not the gender they identify as, that their identity is invalid. Don't call people eggs, like ever, it's extremely uncool.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Ah man... So I can't use my favorite Shakespearean insult?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

I think there's enough difference in the context and tone that these two use-cases don't really collide much besides being the same word.

"Egg" on its own is generic enough that it really needs context to know what one means, usually said context is situational.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago
[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago

egg should only ever be a self-label anyway

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (2 children)

If you put the straw in the bottom of a capri sun, you're a boy. If you put it in the top you're a girl.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

What if you preferred koolaid bursts and just didn't drink capri suns?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I don't know anyone who puts the straw in the bottom, wouldn't that make a huge mess?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yes but us 5 year olds thought it was the manly thing to do 💪😤

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

I had forgotten entirely about doing this as a kid, hell

[–] [email protected] 39 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

There is a general rule in the LGBT+ community now we have a lexicon (and some indices) of terms by which you can navigate your desires, feelings and behavior.

That lexicon exists to help you sort out who you are. It's not there for you to categorize other people. People really don't fit into categories (in any sense) and there are always outliers and fringe cases.

If someone starts an I wonder if I'm an egg conversation, its okay to engage with awareness of comfort levels. We each are captains of our own respective identities.

The hardest thing for people to grok is identity ≠ behavior. The continued necessity of the closet means we are still not free to be our true selves in public. Yes, this can be weird, but even close friends can gatekeep by surprise. We need room to explore and be cautious, even if you, personally are dedicated to inclusion and tolerance.

So yeah, if someone seems enby or trans to you, they remain whatever they identify as, and only they get to decide when it is open to discussion.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (2 children)

The hell is an egg?? I'm a fluid femboy and I stg we get so lost in semantics man like what is this? Is this really a thing thats affecting people?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago

I call my cat an egg when he sits in his little basket. He looks like he's an egg sitting in an egg poacher.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 7 months ago (2 children)

An egg is a trans person before they've realized/accepted they're trans.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)

And we're discussing this distant niche slur over other topics in the LGBT? I just dunno man:/ like you'd have to be so deeply in the know to call someone this

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

it's not exactly about the term itself, but more that very often whenever a femboy makes it known that they are cis, people trip over eachother to reply with "for now" or "check back i 2 years and see if that's true" etc. implying that it's impossible for men to present femininely and just kinda reinventing the gender binary

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago (1 children)

So still a good source of protein?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago

Yes, but both trans and cis are good protein source

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Beautiful I love it! 💜

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