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.

  • tb_@lemmy.world
    41·
    9 months ago

    Realising one is trans is often called “cracking your egg”. Calling someone an egg in this context means insinuating the person is trans (and hasn’t realised it yet).

        • livus@kbin.social
          4·
          9 months ago

          @jawa21 now that I’m really thinking about it, I think I’ve probably seen people using it to refer to themselves but not using it on others as an insult.

          • itslilith
            6·
            9 months ago

            That’s how it’s supposed to be used, r/egg_irl was pretty big, and now there is !egg_irl@lemmy.blahaj.zone

            Both are mostly people suspecting they are trans, and coming to accept themselves

    • Turun@feddit.de
      5·
      9 months ago

      Not necessarily trans, it’s just being unsure about which gender direction you want to choose. Nonbinary and “actually I am cis” are also valid outcomes after cracking.

        • Turun@feddit.de
          1·
          9 months ago

          Didn’t even think about that interpretation of my comment, lol

          When you grow up your sex is like the default setting for your gender. I meant it in the sense that when you grow up you get to choose how you want to express yourself. Deviation from the default setting as a choice, not like you can choose your gender. There are very strong correlations in the brain structure of trans people with people of their whished-to-be-born-as sex.