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.

  • livus
    5•10 months ago

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

    • jawa21
      16•10 months ago

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

      • livus
        4•10 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.

        • @[email protected]
          6•10 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