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[–] trannus_aran@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 7 months ago (3 children)

until their egg cracks and they put on the thigh highs :P

[–] roguetrick@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I don't think you need to be trans to have a desire for the wonderful vascular benefits of stockings.

[–] trannus_aran@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 7 months ago

oh for sure, but judging by unixsocks they seem to be correlated. At this point I'm considering "interested in Linux" to be One Of The Signs™️ lol

[–] MetaCubed@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I don't think egg jokes are healthy for the trans community homie

[–] trannus_aran@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

prime directive's a psyop. Egg as a concept helped me and a lot of my friends find out who we are

[–] MetaCubed@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Frankly idgaf about the prime directive (edit: this is perhaps an exaggeration, I meant I wasn't necessarily referring to the prime directive) , but as an enby person, I think going around saying "doing this makes you an egg" is pretty antithetical to people not wanting to be judged for not complying with the gender roles that correspond with their assigned gender.

[–] trannus_aran@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'm an enby too, and the point remains! I think what gets lost in translation here is that "hey, this is kinda eggy" =/= "hey, you're an egg". At this point, I'm really starting to see this is as a willful misinterpretation by reading the former AS the latter (not saying you're doing this, but a lot of the self-hating folks who see transness as some sort of curse seem to be overrepresented in the population who react negatively to seeing anything as "eggy")

[–] MetaCubed@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

I'm going to very sincerely disagree. You can see it as misinterpretation if you like, but I believe there's functionally no difference between the two statements you've provided and as long as the right is trying to come up with any excuse to outlaw our existence, its optically beneficial to come up with ways of educating people who may be "eggs" about being trans/enby that are informative, but are less likely to fuel a deranged groomer witchhunt. I'm glad it helped you and your friends, but given the political climate, I believe we should avoid terms that endanger us more than needed.

Continue using it, I certainly won't stop you. But I'm not going to start.