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.

  • Ookami38@sh.itjust.works
    16·
    10 months ago

    It’s similar to being in the closet. When you come out as a trans person, you “come out of your shell” so to speak. As such, people who haven’t are considered to be “eggs” still inside their shells.

    • BananaOnionJuice@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      1·
      9 months ago

      While we are talking about that, wouldn’t chrysalis be more fitting?

      When the trans person hatches a beautiful butterfly emerges from the chrysalis.

      • Ookami38@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        9 months ago

        Perhaps. I didn’t make the analogy. Personally, as a completely cis person, I think they both work really well. Maybe there’s some more significant meaning from another perspective.

      • Klaymore@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        9 months ago

        They say that when the egg cracks, a cute chick comes out. Chick referring to both a trans woman and a baby chicken. Doesn’t work for trans men but that’s how the term started I believe.