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.

  • jsomae@lemmy.mlEnglish
    184·
    1 day ago

    okay I do agree that calling people eggs is problematic, but this argument sucks. You can’t both ask me to treat FtM people differently from men and ask me to treat them the same as men. The reason you don’t call someone an egg is because their gender is none of your business.

    • erin (she/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      11·
      1 day ago

      I thought the point of this was to treat them both the same. If yes, you’re not cool for invalidating two people’s genders, if no, you’re still not cool for invalidating one person’s gender. Maybe I’m misreading but I don’t see your comment represented in the meme.

      • jsomae@lemmy.mlEnglish
        11·
        7 hours ago

        Disclaimer: I don’t really believe this – but the counter-argument would be to the one on the left: “why does it matter if the man is trans?” (which is a numbskull counterargument, but it fits in the context of the question on the right.) It’s just dumb to put those two boxes next to each other IMO because it draws a very stupid venn diagram.

        • ulterno@programming.devEnglish
          0·
          3 hours ago

          why does it matter if the man is trans?

          While I tend to steer away from cis/trans related debates, this one has a simple answer.

          Being trans takes money.