#eggcourse

[velvetvexations]

its always really funny that after a prominent trans woman finally comes out on here and is like "hey the egg jokes you made at me for years actively contributed to me staying in the closet and being in denial and it sucked please don't do that cuz its not helpful" a bunch of people come out of the woodwork to be like "actually egg jokes are fine and anyone who says otherwise is a transmisogynist" loll

no one on TRFblr actually gives a fuck about trans women and this is scientifically proven every day

[echolalala]

observing a stranger and commenting that they might be an egg is unacceptable behavior because it's stereotyping and undermining their right to determine their own gender, but observing a stranger and deciding that they're definitely a cis person who is maybe a little gnc is totally normal and not in any way undermining their right to determine their own gender, because reasons

[archferret]

I'm sorry if you mix your scrambled eggs in the pan you cannot in any way shape or form make good scrambled eggs. 90% of the fluffiness that adds to the fantastic texture is gotten by the wisking/stirring part and you gotta go fairly HARD for a good few minutes

[ciaran]

twitter has decided I need to see eggcourse for the 37281th time and I just want to say it's fucking ok to suggest to someone that they might be trans in the same way that it's ok to tell people they might have autism or ADHD or that they maybe need to quit their job or break up with their partner. making suggestions to people about important life decisions is like, fine, they're adults and should be trusted to decide whether they actually want something but merely opening the possibility to them is a neutral act. going “hey, what you're saying sounds very close to gender dysphoria, i can explain why I think this a little more if you want but it's up to you” is like, a really gentle and kind thing to say. especially when epistemic erasure is a real problem for trans & nb people that prevents them from realising that they can also be trans

[unidentifiedfuckingthing]

when eggcourse started being a thing like a year or 2 ago i was sympathetic because i personally didnt respond well to like passive external suggestion of my whole deal being potentially a gender thing and because kim and i had teased my sister about being an egg for a good bit before she ended up coming out and it always seemed to annoy her but it seems like a kneejerk deflection coming specifically from not allowing yourself the option even though you want it is a theme of a lot of people's experiences. so i have to wonder. this seems like a weird thing to ask a less politically inclined 18 year old about though

[phrynewrites]

I wonder how that egg girl is doing, i miss eggcourse

my girlfriend is doing good—thanks for asking!

[alias-milamber]

Relatedly, swooshy skirts are great.

(I... kind of don't like "Cis+" for me, because... it doesn't make me any more or differently cis? and it sparks off my "ah yes, I am one of the good ones" twitch reflex, but yes, gender expression is exactly what you make it. Downsides, as a bloke you risk ridicule from one side, and egg-discourse (eggcourse?) from the other, but swooshy skirts are still neat.)

I see a lot of ‘cis’ women say they wish they were androgynous in the way men were or they wish they were pretty in the way men were. This is your sign to go try to do that. You may find you enjoy being an androgynous woman. You may find you no longer identify as a woman. You may find you don’t like androgyny. You will not know until you try. Cut your hair if you’ve always wanted to but have been afraid to. Shop in the men’s section if you’ve been too nervous to. Wear clothing with an androgynous  silhouette. Experiment with binding, take baby steps with compression bras if you want. Wear unisex scents. Live life. Try things you want to try. A lot of cis women do not understand the joys of mens pants and mens deodorant. I think everyone should try both of those things.

[velvetvexations]

RE: Egg jokes, I always kinda thought a cardinal rule of the queer community, and especially the trans community, was never calling someone something they don't want to be called? What the hell happened to that?

Like it really feels like the two sides of this are arguing different points, like the "don't make egg jokes unless you know the person is cool with it and stop immediately if they aren't because some people might like them but for some it genuinely makes it a lot harder for them to come out or is just uncomfortable if they genuinely are cis" side is clearly just arguing that you should respect people's boundaries and maybe consider that not everyone is validated or helped by the same things, and that's okay, which is extremely fucking reasonable, and the other side is arguing that not wanting to be the subject of egg jokes or having a bad history with them makes you a transmisogynist because some trans women were helped by them and being called a woman isn't a bad thing ever no matter what, so the only reason you'd be against them/uncomfortable when they're directed your way is if you hate trans women and want them to suffer, which is frankly insane.

I just wanna grab "hating egg jokes is bigoted" types and be like "your expiriences are not universal, someone else not liking the jokes doesn't invalidate your gender or journey, it's literally not about you, and you should have learned to not call people things that make them upset in fucking kindergarten, so why are you, an adult, acting like a 4 y/o who hasn't figured out that other people exist and have feelings??" I mean, I hate being called "a person with disabilities" or "differently abled" but if a disabled person genuinely prefers those terms I'll fucking use them, or at least not call them a disabled person, because it's not about me anymore. Seems like a no-brainer.

If the person likes the jokes or feels like they helped, fine, who cares, use them all you want or simply acknowledge and accept that different things help different people and it is good that another person could help them, we should be glad they have friends who are there for them when they need it. If a person asks you not to make those jokes or talks about how they personally were extremely uncomfortable with them and it made their transition harder don't make those jokes around them, and validate their struggle and be sympathetic to how hard it is to have friends not respect your boundaries. Like people who don't like egg jokes aren't arguing that being called trans or a woman is an insult, we're arguing that you should respect other people's boundaries and the response to that is never "well your boundaries are problematic so I'm ignoring them fuck you" like??? This is kindergarten level stuff, how is it hard to grasp???? Y'all need to stop holding someone's head underwater while insisting you're helping them. That's all we're saying.

(Keep anon if it breaks pls <3)

it's truly an excuse to just not have to make any alterations to your behavior or ever show any restraint whatsoever

[groundgritsarchive]

its funny because! duck never expected to save earth. that wasnt his calling, that wasnt the role he wanted to play, he wanted to be happy. he didnt want to know about syvane, he didnt want to fight its war, he didnt want to save their world, either. he didnt know about indrid, either, or george, but he saved them anyways, and he saved them all for eachother. he saved them for everyone but himself but more than anything for himself. to be happy and live the life he wanted, because he realized it wasnt about finding the life you wanted but making the life you wanted.

it doesnt seem fair that he didnt get to have it longer. (if you want to understand we are still accepting George art as an application to the discord server.)

[shoelace-and-friends]

The white, the yolk, just throw the whole bitch away! The shell is where the cronch is at, baby! 

[strangeauthor]

can i say

eggcourse

wow we're still going in the egg discourse huh. as i already said i am Indifferent to egg jokes lol if it werent for them i wouldnt have learned i am non of binary

[sugarsculls]

VALIDATION

[nyarados]

keith’s pokemonsona is a togepi

[scoobydoobway]

Eggs were never meant for human consumption. Y’all got GOT!

[nyarados]

He Is A Vegetal

i am SO TIRED of this discourse. i will NOT say it again. keith did not hatch. he did not pop out of krolia’s hot pocket. he was planted in the ground and he sprouted.

[milfvael]

i’m crying @ the person who left an actual comment about eggs on maggie’s post of that song..... does maggie know the original version of the song talks about making eggs??? 10 minutes ago, i would have said that i hope so, but now i’m kind of hoping that she’s completely baffled by what that even means