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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] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

@tb_ thanks, got it. Has it been a thing for many years or is it new?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Not many years, but far from new in internet time scales. Maybe in the last decade or so.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

@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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

That's how it's supposed to be used, r/egg_irl was pretty big, and now there is [email protected]

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