✨ I think the actual reason "egg culture" stuff bothers us so much is the way it makes an individual journey of personal discovery all about an extractive monoculture whose goal is to strip-mine you for clout. It ceases to be about supporting others, and instead becomes this... weird, gross scavenger hunt through your personal habits for a whiff of Gender that they can take credit for. When you're around somebody who's convinced you're an egg, you stop being a person, and you instead transmute into this... abstracted list of suspected behaviors that they can categorize. It's no different from having a bigoted cis person try and clock you, and it doesn't feel better just because it's a queer person doing it. It's still boiling you down to a gender-essentialist set of qualifiers that you have no control over the perception of and, even more critically, are now denied from having a personal experience of; instead you are expected to blend into this amorphous mass of sanctioned trans-coded traits.
I'm genuinely begging folks: stop doing this. It sucks. It's not fun, or funny. It just sucks.
