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.
Ah man… So I can’t use my favorite Shakespearean insult?
egg should only ever be a self-label anyway
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.
I don’t know anyone who puts the straw in the bottom, wouldn’t that make a huge mess?
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.
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?
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
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
