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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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[–] rubythulhu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 9 months ago

it’s not tearing people down, it’s usually someone unintentionally doing something hurtful when they mean to try to help someone.

read the first section of this, it explains the issue (the egg prime directive) well: https://genderdysphoria.fyi/en/am-i-trans