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I think there's really two sides to the "egg" culture. On the one hand, the culture can sometimes lead to essentializing certain gender presentations as belonging to one gender or another, which is decidedly a bad thing; on the other hand, the egg culture must be seen in context as a form of inverting the way cis people treat trans people, which cis allies knowing their privilege must be able to weather.
Ultimately, though, for me calling someone an egg has really nothing to do with the gender presentation itself so much as how the person in question relates to it.
For me it’s more the act of purposefully going on the internet and making a post about it.
A guy dressing kind of fem or andro and getting mistaken for a girl or something isn’t necessarily gonna give me egg vibes, but if you go on the internet and make a post like “omg isn’t it soo weird how this happened.” I am
I think I entertained a few dozen people here, and the post had it's intended purpose.
Yeah, that's really what I was trying to get at.