They happen with almost alarm regularity in small towns and given that’s where I grew up and spent a huge chunk of my teen years, I’ve got a lot of weird ass stories. Made only more bizarre by being from an Island with it’s own aggressively specific/unique culture.

Yeah but I was in a real small town. There was only one house that was close enough to try and take advantage so I just knocked on the door and said “If you wanna use the wifi you’re chipping in for the internet”. Dude shrugged and said “Cheaper than getting my own”. Ended up giving me $20 a month until he moved.

It’s from experience. This meme was exactly how I felt before I realized I’m trans.

Your experience is not universal.

You’re never going to come to that realization yourself if you’re never exposed to the possibility that that’s an option.

I agree. However that was not the topic of discussion. The topic of discussion was how useful it is to point at someone and say nothing other than a label that you have given to them yourself. They had no say. They didn’t have any input. It was just chosen for them and ascribed to them. That’s kinda fucked up. If you replace that with literally any other label, it suddenly is an issue, no? Or is labeling people without their input or agreement just something that you find acceptable?

If someone is confident in their gender identity, they shouldn’t have any problem being called an egg.

Yes. If they’re comfortable they can weather someone labeling them. However, that does paint you as the shitty person for doing something to someone to which they have to withstand it. Do you not see the issue here? The issue isn’t what you’re calling them. The issue is that you’re calling someone something of which you know nothing about and choosing a label/minority/group FOR THEM.

Are you going to say gaydar is offensive?

Invalid comparison. Literally nothing in common. There is a far cry difference between recognizing traits in someone that may or may not be part of your group and then theorizing that they are one as opposed to pointing at someone and publicly just saying “GAY.”

We just have a knack for identifying our own.

Here you go again. You have no idea whether they are one of your own. You didn’t ask. Moreover, you’re basing this off of a single meme. No. You have no idea whether they are one of your own and the fact that you’re doubling down so hard on a meme that has no information in it… Come the utter fuck on.

But you seem to be perfectly fine with ascribing a label to someone else that you yourself have decided. That is pretty shitty and disgusting behavior. We literally tell children to not do this because it is bullying.

I’m not continuing this conversation with you. I’ve made my points pretty clear and you’ve made yours just as crystal.

Not interested.

That’s fair. I hope you have a good day as well <3

I’ma be real, I personally find this egg stuff to be fairly offensive and insanely hypocritical. No one can question your gender identity, and no one should, but you’re allowed to question others? Then there are the overt comparisons one can draw from saying someone flamboyant is actually gay.

So wherein lies the right granted to you that you’re allowed to question someone else? Regardless of if it was to their face or not, it’s just nasty behavior. If someone is an egg, let them come to that realization themselves. Don’t suddenly attribute a label to them that you’ve chosen for them.

It’s just reductive and gross. Knock it the fuck off.

Let people be who they are, whether their gender identity is what you would expect or not.