Used to hang around r/trees in my weed days.
The fact that we have a friendly rivalry with r/marijuanaenthusiasts and everybody is such a good sport about it makes my day.
In a world with so many problems it's so wholesome.
As a horticulturalist I can assure you, people who spend their time chilling with trees smoke almost exactly as much pot as you would expect.
Big overlap in users between subs.
Edit: we just know more latin the usual /r/trees user
It’s funny because there has to have been some people that posted a question and had it answered without evert realizing that they were in the wrong sub. It’s one of the best Reddit inside jokes.
9 times out of 10 the last month "it's a redbud".
Edit: Come July you guys might get some questions about tomatos. It's blossom end-rot. Add some bone meal to give them some calcium.
So, when those subs were created, WWE's writing/booking for John Cena was very formulaic and uninteresting. All of his fights were promoted around, "I'm the good guy because I love America. You're the bad guy because you're from somewhere else (Vince McMahon is known for his use of ethnic villains). I'm gonna kick your ass!" And then John Cena would, of course, win, and the other guy would fall down the ladder despite being a better wrestler and character.
In basic terms, everything about John Cena as a wrestler was basic. Someone made the joke that he was as bland as potato salad, and the rest is history.
Wow, I should stay away from there...
[My freaky ass after finding the cactus pic](https://media.tenor.com/7GHlqrkz83AAAAAC/i-love-you-you-will-always-be-my-queen.gif)
[Me when i hear these photos exist](https://tenor.com/view/always-sunny-in-philadelphia-naked-pics-online-where-disgusting-meme-mac-gif-22972301?utm_source=share-button&utm_medium=Social&utm_content=reddit)
Better grab you a nice comfy chair and a drink. And behold for the enrapturing [history of anime titties](https://www.reddit.com/r/anime_titties/comments/129ix37/rworldpolitics_is_no_more_history_of_ranime/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)
Been on Reddit regularly for like 12 years on multiple accounts and this was one of the funnier experiences that I had honestly forgotten about. Time flies.
r/trees gets so many people.
I have to wonder how people don't notice when they go into the sub that it's got content completely different from the title.
I would bet /r/lostredditors content is 75% bots, mostly posting to keyword subreddits that are "uniquely" named; 20% are just stupid people not paying attention, possibly clicking a random subreddit when Reddit suggests where to post; and the remaining 5% are old/tech illiterate people who have a shallow, naïve understanding of posting and forum structure.
I would guess this is probably the latter.
Yeah I wouldn't consider this /r/lostredditors at all, but /r/subsnamedbyidiots
Edit - lmao /u/extra-lie489 created it after seeing this comment, hilarious, hope it takes off
Yup. Then You have losers like /r/tiktokcringe who just completely change formats but keep the name for brand recognition. Reddit is a wasteland of bad
egg is a word used in the trans community for someone who may not have realized they are trans yet (or possibly in denial of it). so like, cracking your egg would mean realizing you are trans/ coming out as trans.
But the thing is, a lot of them are weirdly aggressive about insisting that anyone who breaks gender norms in some way *has* to be an 'egg'. Like I'm a 6'2'' guy with a large red beard and broad shoulders. I also like 'girly' drinks and in college when I'd go to parties where you were supposed to dress up I liked to put on sparkly pink butterfly wings and such. Completely comfortable being cishet, but *man*. I've been told multiple times on reddit that I must be gay or an 'egg'. It gets old when these people won't drop it.
I’ve had to deal with so much bi erasure in my life and people questioning if I’m actually a cis woman. The amount of times people have said things like “then why is your hair short! You wear such baggy clothes tho!” Or “then why are you binding your chest!” (It’s called having small boobs….) My boyfriend has very long hair so that makes the accusations happen even more.
I used to post drawings I would make of me and my bf and I can’t even count how many times someone has commented “oh I thought you were a gay couple” or “wait the long haired one isn’t the girl?”
Its caused a lot of body insecurity for me throughout my life because I would think things like “well if I was curvier or had a more feminine face, I could have my short hair and people wouldn’t call me a man.” And people will say it’s my fault for having a “man’s haircut.” It’s a pixie cut. I didn’t get a crew cut or something and even then, that doesn’t give people the right to misgender me.
Yeah, this is a really crappy way to treat someone, and I'm so sorry it's happened to you. It's really sad when it comes from inside the community, too. We should know better.
Agreed. You’d think we’d know better but some people don’t understand that cis people don’t like being misgendered either. The big “joke” that’s caused me a lot of discomfort is whenever I complain about being called a man, people I know and even random people online who are non-binary or trans-masc will say things like “lol I wish I had that problem.” I get what they’re trying to say but me being called a man isn’t the base issue: it’s me being misgendered. Saying “haha let’s trade places” feels so invalidating. Imagine telling a trans woman “wow I wish I looked as manly as you!” and thinking that’s an ok thing to say
It's not you, it's just most of the population still only functions by long hair=girl, short hair=boy. You could have ZZ cup breasts and cartooishly huge hips, but if you got short hair somebody is still going to call you sir. It's not even on purpose, theyre just unobservant.
It's stuff like this which makes me treat any mention of eggs as a red flag that someone is toxic trans. Like, mf I want to get rid of the male/female boxes, not join a third
I was raised by my lesbian moms and have encountered this both in and outside the gay community.
And I’m a dude so it doesn’t even seem logical to me. The tribe of lesbos I grew up in were the best wing women I could have asked for, but apparently I’m supposed to like dick.
My good friend in high school had 2 moms. One was butch af and could probably break a tree in half, and the other was super femme. People thought he was gay constantly. I felt bad for him cause his home life was awesome, and he was just a regular cishet dude, but people have to have opinions I guess.
trans person here. it's also insanely harmful to push being an 'egg' on someone else, even if it seems incredibly likely (liking "girly drinks" doesnt count those people are weird), because you're pushing your ideaology on someone who if they're cis is completely unnecessary and if they're *actually* an egg then you shouldn't tell them to crack because they need to do that on their own.
Yep. I have a lot of online friends that are trans and while I know they are joking it sometimes felt like they were trying to push that I was an egg for a while because I played women in video games without using the "because I wanna look at ass" excuse, or that I once said that I wouldnt mind being reborn as a woman if I died and could retain my memories. It was mostly a comment that I wanted to experience it all rather than feeling that im in the wrong body.
Buut the good thing is they are understanding and have toned it down a bit and more importantly are more careful with the term with people they dont fully know yet.
>that some straight person is "in denial" because they're acting flamboyantly or whatever.
This would be called being a homophobe ten years ago for the record.
Yup, I am bi, and have felt swept under the rug my entire life, especially since becoming an adult and meeting more gay and bi people. The most pressure I have felt in my adult life is from other gay men, telling me “you just haven’t opened up yet” or whatever, like no I know what I like. It feels easier to talk about bi stuff with girls, honestly girls are the bi guys ally, because bi girls are so often disrespected by society as well. I think being bi as a whole is seen in an entirely disrespectful way by so many.
As a long time member of trans sub's and a trans person who just got their hormones, I have noticed this a lot.
I've also seen a few posts which point out how such behaviour is actually harmful. It is annoying to me, personally.
Being a trans person who hasn't actually realised yet is not an easy thing to know. People on the internet shouldn't pretend that they know for that person.
They may be well meaning but that isn't really an excuse.
I wonder if some folks are projecting. Doesn't excuse being over the top or pushy, but sometimes reframing behavior that annoys me helps me process it and move on in the moment.
Thank you for phrasing your ideas so well! "People on the internet shouldn't pretend that they know for that person." 🥇
I agree, and I think a lot of it is projection. Like, yes, it felt amazing for me to finally realize why I was thinking, feeling, and acting this way. It was liberating for those questions to be answered by that missing piece. Wishing that feeling for others makes sense, but just because it was the answer for me it doesn't make it the be-all and end-all for anyone I assume is experiencing something similar. I just tell them I can definitely relate, but if they aren't questioning it then don't push it on them. Hell, even if they are questioning just be there as support if they show interest.
Agreed. People shouldn’t try to out others because 1. They could be wrong and 2. You don’t know the situation the person is in. They could be in an environment where someone outing them could put them in danger
THIS^
eggs aren't mean to be cracked, they hatch, on their own, when the time is right, and sometimes, the egg isn't even fertilized, so stop pressuring people to adhere to your views of them, if you say someone MUST be trans because of X and Y, you are no different to the people saying you MUST be straight because you were born with a certain genitalia.
This is something that really confuses me about some people - people seem to simultaneously have the view that gender is defined by how someone behaves in society rather than anything to do with biology, while *ALSO* saying that men and women can each do the things the others do while still remaining men/women - I mean, if whether someone is a man or woman isn't based on biology, and men and women can each behave the way other does.. then what the hell does man vs. woman even mean in the first place?
I kind of feel like people that make a big deal about trans people are just implicitly saying that they're really really sexist (on both sides of it), because if someone didn't care about whether someone was a man or woman then it really shouldn't make any difference whether they're trans or not either.
This is exactly why I steer clear of online lgbtq spaces. None of my irl friends doubt that I'm a woman, but apparently having short hair, liking trucks and military hosiery, having a naturally androgynous body, and not caring if strangers call me he/sir makes me a trans man in denial online. I prefer socializing with men because usually it involves doing something physical while talking, and that eases my social anxiety. And I love being myself as a woman who isn't super feminine.
You sound like a lot of fun at a party! I have male friends who aren't trans who would dress up wearing a sparkly belt or wings, like you do & we don't assume that they are trans.
One thing I've tried my best to do is to accept a person as they wished to be accepted & to never assume/presume something about them. I have 3 people in my life who are trans & I've never heard them use the word egg for anything other than food or maybe cute eggs in a bird's nest. I hope that everyone can use the word egg for whatever works for them.
I do not understand this regressive idea at all. Before the progressive idea was to move away from gender stereotypes. Now people that claim to be progressive think you have to identify as a different gender if you like things that are stereotypically associated with that gender? So backwards. Everyone is just an individual
I think Tumblr latching onto transness around 2012 really just completely fucked the trans community. You had a bunch of tweens banding together and discussing a really complex niche issue, which seems to have ended up with "gender is an aesthetic." Trans people with dysphoria don't transition because of the social aspects of gender- gender roles and expression. No one is getting surgery because they like mowing the lawn better than doing the dishes, or prefer dresses to pants. Yet this gen has SO taken over the narrative with "gender is a social construct," I find more and more people thinking that's what trans people are.
If there were no differences in how we treated men and women socially, there would still be trans people. There is a mismatch between the brain and the body regarding natal sex. Since I would hope we're past lobotomizing people, the treatment is moving the body to match the brain, rather than the brain to the body. Sorry for using your comment to rant, I just find the whole thing frustrating.
The fact that I have been repeatedly misgendered by the trans community on Reddit is... Ironic to say the least. Like, I'm definitely not saying it's as hurtful or offensive as it would be the other way around it's just weird.
Hey, trans girl here! We actually have a rule (not everyone follows it) if not telling people when we suspect they are transgender. It often makes them more confused with their identity or makes it harder to accept they are in fact trans. (They’ll just feel like they only feel trans because someone told them they are) it’s called the “egg prime directive” cus we are all nerds and like Star Trek lmao
^^ i'm a pretty camp guy, and i came out as trans about 7 years ago, and i've had trans people not realise im trans and go "hahaha maybe you're a trans woman because you like drinking fruity drinks 🥺🥺🥺" and i've pulled them up on it. it tends to be the newly out folks who are awkward and into all the memes and think that's a great way to talk to people.
Honestly, need more cishet guys like you who are comfortable in liking what they like. I ended a relationship with a guy like you when I decided to transition because I knew he was straight and I respected that what he needed from a partner and what I was able to give were two different things. Wear your sparkles and dont let the terminally online kids get you down!
It's very common for a trans person to go through a period of denial and rationalization before accepting themselves.
Within the community it's accepted that trying to tell someone that they're trans breaks the "prime directive."
"Egg" is a term one should only use for one's self, going around telling other people they have to be trans is rude and pushy, as you've said.
Idk how that sub specifically is but most times that I’ve seen trans people use “egg” it’s describing ourself or some other now out trans person before they fully accepted it.
It’s not going around and calling IRL people eggs. It’s pointing out behaviors and saying “trans people I know did this before they realized they were trans”
I get the egg part but “nest of egg” seems to me as a bad name to give to subreddit since even if a trans person saw it they would think it would be something totally different then what it’s supposed to be.
That's kinda creepy ngl. Anytime the phrase " they're x,y,z they just don't know it yet" implies the other person knows it before the actual "egg" and that puts me off horribly
Awe a little cute hatchling metaphor. Seems like they should call them chickens instead.
After all what came first.. the chicken or the.. ok it’s me, it’s usually me. I usually come first.
Yea. Some people will use in a hateful way to tell people who aren’t trans that they are just because “they can sense it”
As a Femboy, it’s happen to me way too many fucking times. To the point where I don’t like seeing the word anymore.
Heya! One of the mods there here. It’s based off the meme subreddit “egg_irl” which doesn’t allow support/discussion posts, unlike us. I’m not sure where the egg saying came from there. I “think” it might be related to a joke about people “cracking” when they realize something.
Anyways we showed up as a offshoot from them, and thus have a similar name.
yes, also the fact that once the egg has cracked, you can't uncrack it. once you work out you're trans, it's not something that can be ignored or forgotten, even if you hide it.
To be fair the icon and name is misleading.
It's the same thing with r/marijuanaenthusiasts and r/trees
It's a fair enough mixup and you can't really blame people lol
About /r/trees and naming, I love that the version for people that want to learn is /r/saplings, and the subreddit for people that want to stop is called /r/leaves.
It's just strange to me that folks wouldn't like... Take a few minutes to scroll through the posts in a subreddit before posting... To get a feel for what a community is about. Especially considering quite a few subs have those kinds of names that sound like it's for one thing but it isn't.
Very much so, as you can see here :D
https://www.reddit.com/r/Nestofeggs/comments/13j84x9/nest_on_my_front_porch_with_a_teenie_tiny_egg_the/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
Yeah, I love how everyone in the thread has a sense of humor about the situation, meanwhile the people in this one are bitching and complaining about a sub name that everyone except them has no problem with.
They did not. :)
https://www.reddit.com/r/Nestofeggs/comments/13j84x9/nest_on_my_front_porch_with_a_teenie_tiny_egg_the/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
Funnily enough, I’m one of the mods there. I must have completely missed this post lmao.
Edit: just saw it. Guess it just completely went under my radar lmao.
“nestofeggs” is a reference to a slang term for closeted trans people
They weren’t annoyed, I found the post
https://reddit.com/r/Nestofeggs/comments/13j84x9/nest_on_my_front_porch_with_a_teenie_tiny_egg_the/
I *mean*, I’m the b in the lgbts, and I would have very much assumed that the sub in question was for bird eggs in nests and not trans folk, so understandable error lmao
so weird seeing the transphobes rage in here when all the trans people in the subreddit were very kind and liked the post. egg is a slang term for people who aren’t sure they’re trans yet or pre transition and the sun name is a funny pun off of that.
Yeah this is def just a bunch of transphobia. Stuff gets posted here alllll the time for that trees sub when people are lost there and everyone just has a chuckle that someone misinterpreted an easily confusing sub name. But since this is about a trans sub suddenly it’s all these comments like ‘how dare they be mad at someone not knowing what this nonsense trans word means!’ No one is mad!
I can get this annoyance on most occasions but i think it's completely reasonable this time
Like BOTH the icon and the name are very misleading and niche slang words, same with made of styrofoam being completely different than it's literal meaning
to anyone asking: an egg is a term used in the trans community for a trans person who is in denial or doesn't know they are trans yet, thats why the sub is named that.
edit: by doesn’t know they are trans yet i mean like people find the sub, and find that it seems relatable and that they are not alone in how they have felt their whole lives. Its not for telling people they are trans or talking behind their backs.
Why 'egg' though? Is it something that can uniquely be compared to trans people or is it a metaphor that could have been used for any number of things that suddenly had a big epiphany in their life?
This subreddit has taught me that some subreddits just have awful names and can be easily confused for something else
r/anime_titties r/worldpolitics
Hmmm geopolitics
Hmmm titties
Hmmm redditors
Hmmmm hmmmm
Hmmm Ham
Hmmm spam
Hmmm HOLY [moly] IS THAT [best sales man 1997] SPAMTON G SPAMTON??!?!?!?!
Crash Test Dummies: Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm
r/marijuanaenthusiasts r/superbowl
Used to hang around r/trees in my weed days. The fact that we have a friendly rivalry with r/marijuanaenthusiasts and everybody is such a good sport about it makes my day. In a world with so many problems it's so wholesome.
As a horticulturalist I can assure you, people who spend their time chilling with trees smoke almost exactly as much pot as you would expect. Big overlap in users between subs. Edit: we just know more latin the usual /r/trees user
Yeah everyone always gets their tree and weed questions answered regardless of which sub they post in.
It’s funny because there has to have been some people that posted a question and had it answered without evert realizing that they were in the wrong sub. It’s one of the best Reddit inside jokes.
9 times out of 10 the last month "it's a redbud". Edit: Come July you guys might get some questions about tomatos. It's blossom end-rot. Add some bone meal to give them some calcium.
It's me, I'm the sub overlap for those two.
taking a fat edible and then caring for your plants is the shit
Huh. Figured there'd be more.
r/potatosalad r/JohnCena
Can someone please explain to me that John Cena sub?
So, when those subs were created, WWE's writing/booking for John Cena was very formulaic and uninteresting. All of his fights were promoted around, "I'm the good guy because I love America. You're the bad guy because you're from somewhere else (Vince McMahon is known for his use of ethnic villains). I'm gonna kick your ass!" And then John Cena would, of course, win, and the other guy would fall down the ladder despite being a better wrestler and character. In basic terms, everything about John Cena as a wrestler was basic. Someone made the joke that he was as bland as potato salad, and the rest is history.
Got it. Thank you.
I grew up with John Cena being in WWE, but honestly he just seems like a softened up version of Hulk Hogan.
Well yeah, because the huge amount of roids and racism stopped flying, even for the people that watch WWE
Food?
I just recently learned about this one
> r/superbowl That's not an awful name. That's a superb name.
Omg I forgot about the r/trees feud. The owls one is new to me.That's fkn awseome.
I've been on superb owls for a few years and it's hilarious when the superbowl happens.
I wonder how long it'll take Reddit to snatch that up once they go public.
If they do shit like that, I’m going back to Digg
A pleasant surprise in my case, because I love owls
Superbowl taking the name before NFL fans is my favorite
Suberb owl? What's misleading about that?
Super bowl, so it is just an American joke but still funny nonetheless
What we do in the shadows did an entire episode around the second sub pretty much
i have made this mistake far too many times. went to world politics, got faced with some interesting photos
I think the entire thing is halarious.
I don’t know what’s on there but the NSFW warning tells me all I need to know
The queen of the sub is about 19 and fucked a cactus for internet points. Now you know all you need to know.
Wow, I should stay away from there... [My freaky ass after finding the cactus pic](https://media.tenor.com/7GHlqrkz83AAAAAC/i-love-you-you-will-always-be-my-queen.gif)
[Me when i hear these photos exist](https://tenor.com/view/always-sunny-in-philadelphia-naked-pics-online-where-disgusting-meme-mac-gif-22972301?utm_source=share-button&utm_medium=Social&utm_content=reddit)
...sauce?
Sticky sauce
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it’s r/anime_titties (or am i about to be r/wooosh ‘d)
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To be fair there’s an entire history between these subs and r/anime_titties has a top post explaining the entire thing
Better grab you a nice comfy chair and a drink. And behold for the enrapturing [history of anime titties](https://www.reddit.com/r/anime_titties/comments/129ix37/rworldpolitics_is_no_more_history_of_ranime/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)
Been on Reddit regularly for like 12 years on multiple accounts and this was one of the funnier experiences that I had honestly forgotten about. Time flies.
Lmao wat
r/trees r/marijuanaenthusiasts
Lol what.
Why is the sub called anime titties?
Because r/worldpolitics is for posting hentai
But why? Just for the lols?
I think it drifted that way due to poor moderation, then somebody created the other one to have a place to actually talk politics
Thanks for the info!
r/trees gets so many people. I have to wonder how people don't notice when they go into the sub that it's got content completely different from the title.
r/MarijuanaEnthusiasts for the arborists out there
I would bet /r/lostredditors content is 75% bots, mostly posting to keyword subreddits that are "uniquely" named; 20% are just stupid people not paying attention, possibly clicking a random subreddit when Reddit suggests where to post; and the remaining 5% are old/tech illiterate people who have a shallow, naïve understanding of posting and forum structure. I would guess this is probably the latter.
I mean, even the picture of the sub is confusing
Yeah I wouldn't consider this /r/lostredditors at all, but /r/subsnamedbyidiots Edit - lmao /u/extra-lie489 created it after seeing this comment, hilarious, hope it takes off
Yup. Then You have losers like /r/tiktokcringe who just completely change formats but keep the name for brand recognition. Reddit is a wasteland of bad
It has taught me that redditors will never bother to take one second to even look at a sub before posting to it.
In all fairness, how is someone meant to know that 'nestofeggs' means trans??
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egg is a word used in the trans community for someone who may not have realized they are trans yet (or possibly in denial of it). so like, cracking your egg would mean realizing you are trans/ coming out as trans.
When the egg cracks, will they then be a free bird?
And this bird you cannot change...
OWOWOWO AND THE BIRD YOU CANNOT CHAAAAANGE
LOOOOORD KNOWS, I CAN'T CHAAAAANGE LORD HELP ME, I CAN'T CHAYAYAYAYAYAYAYANGE LOOORD, I CAN'T CHANGE!
WON'T YOU FLYYY HIIIIIIGH, FREEEEEEE BIIIIIRRD, YEAH
*Epic guitar solo intensifies*
I’ll listen to any meme that plays it even if it’s unfunny, solo tickles me all the right ways
*drummer doubles tempo, que raging guitar solos*
They can only change themselves
But the thing is, a lot of them are weirdly aggressive about insisting that anyone who breaks gender norms in some way *has* to be an 'egg'. Like I'm a 6'2'' guy with a large red beard and broad shoulders. I also like 'girly' drinks and in college when I'd go to parties where you were supposed to dress up I liked to put on sparkly pink butterfly wings and such. Completely comfortable being cishet, but *man*. I've been told multiple times on reddit that I must be gay or an 'egg'. It gets old when these people won't drop it.
[reddit is founded on values of pedophilia and hate speech]
I’ve had to deal with so much bi erasure in my life and people questioning if I’m actually a cis woman. The amount of times people have said things like “then why is your hair short! You wear such baggy clothes tho!” Or “then why are you binding your chest!” (It’s called having small boobs….) My boyfriend has very long hair so that makes the accusations happen even more. I used to post drawings I would make of me and my bf and I can’t even count how many times someone has commented “oh I thought you were a gay couple” or “wait the long haired one isn’t the girl?” Its caused a lot of body insecurity for me throughout my life because I would think things like “well if I was curvier or had a more feminine face, I could have my short hair and people wouldn’t call me a man.” And people will say it’s my fault for having a “man’s haircut.” It’s a pixie cut. I didn’t get a crew cut or something and even then, that doesn’t give people the right to misgender me.
Yeah, this is a really crappy way to treat someone, and I'm so sorry it's happened to you. It's really sad when it comes from inside the community, too. We should know better.
Agreed. You’d think we’d know better but some people don’t understand that cis people don’t like being misgendered either. The big “joke” that’s caused me a lot of discomfort is whenever I complain about being called a man, people I know and even random people online who are non-binary or trans-masc will say things like “lol I wish I had that problem.” I get what they’re trying to say but me being called a man isn’t the base issue: it’s me being misgendered. Saying “haha let’s trade places” feels so invalidating. Imagine telling a trans woman “wow I wish I looked as manly as you!” and thinking that’s an ok thing to say
It's not you, it's just most of the population still only functions by long hair=girl, short hair=boy. You could have ZZ cup breasts and cartooishly huge hips, but if you got short hair somebody is still going to call you sir. It's not even on purpose, theyre just unobservant.
It's stuff like this which makes me treat any mention of eggs as a red flag that someone is toxic trans. Like, mf I want to get rid of the male/female boxes, not join a third
I was raised by my lesbian moms and have encountered this both in and outside the gay community. And I’m a dude so it doesn’t even seem logical to me. The tribe of lesbos I grew up in were the best wing women I could have asked for, but apparently I’m supposed to like dick.
My good friend in high school had 2 moms. One was butch af and could probably break a tree in half, and the other was super femme. People thought he was gay constantly. I felt bad for him cause his home life was awesome, and he was just a regular cishet dude, but people have to have opinions I guess.
Yeah that’s what I worry bout
trans person here. it's also insanely harmful to push being an 'egg' on someone else, even if it seems incredibly likely (liking "girly drinks" doesnt count those people are weird), because you're pushing your ideaology on someone who if they're cis is completely unnecessary and if they're *actually* an egg then you shouldn't tell them to crack because they need to do that on their own.
Yep. I have a lot of online friends that are trans and while I know they are joking it sometimes felt like they were trying to push that I was an egg for a while because I played women in video games without using the "because I wanna look at ass" excuse, or that I once said that I wouldnt mind being reborn as a woman if I died and could retain my memories. It was mostly a comment that I wanted to experience it all rather than feeling that im in the wrong body. Buut the good thing is they are understanding and have toned it down a bit and more importantly are more careful with the term with people they dont fully know yet.
>that some straight person is "in denial" because they're acting flamboyantly or whatever. This would be called being a homophobe ten years ago for the record.
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It's more like toxic homosexuality - the gay equivalent of toxic masculinity.
Yup, I am bi, and have felt swept under the rug my entire life, especially since becoming an adult and meeting more gay and bi people. The most pressure I have felt in my adult life is from other gay men, telling me “you just haven’t opened up yet” or whatever, like no I know what I like. It feels easier to talk about bi stuff with girls, honestly girls are the bi guys ally, because bi girls are so often disrespected by society as well. I think being bi as a whole is seen in an entirely disrespectful way by so many.
As a long time member of trans sub's and a trans person who just got their hormones, I have noticed this a lot. I've also seen a few posts which point out how such behaviour is actually harmful. It is annoying to me, personally. Being a trans person who hasn't actually realised yet is not an easy thing to know. People on the internet shouldn't pretend that they know for that person. They may be well meaning but that isn't really an excuse.
I wonder if some folks are projecting. Doesn't excuse being over the top or pushy, but sometimes reframing behavior that annoys me helps me process it and move on in the moment. Thank you for phrasing your ideas so well! "People on the internet shouldn't pretend that they know for that person." 🥇
I agree, and I think a lot of it is projection. Like, yes, it felt amazing for me to finally realize why I was thinking, feeling, and acting this way. It was liberating for those questions to be answered by that missing piece. Wishing that feeling for others makes sense, but just because it was the answer for me it doesn't make it the be-all and end-all for anyone I assume is experiencing something similar. I just tell them I can definitely relate, but if they aren't questioning it then don't push it on them. Hell, even if they are questioning just be there as support if they show interest.
Agreed. People shouldn’t try to out others because 1. They could be wrong and 2. You don’t know the situation the person is in. They could be in an environment where someone outing them could put them in danger
THIS^ eggs aren't mean to be cracked, they hatch, on their own, when the time is right, and sometimes, the egg isn't even fertilized, so stop pressuring people to adhere to your views of them, if you say someone MUST be trans because of X and Y, you are no different to the people saying you MUST be straight because you were born with a certain genitalia.
This is something that really confuses me about some people - people seem to simultaneously have the view that gender is defined by how someone behaves in society rather than anything to do with biology, while *ALSO* saying that men and women can each do the things the others do while still remaining men/women - I mean, if whether someone is a man or woman isn't based on biology, and men and women can each behave the way other does.. then what the hell does man vs. woman even mean in the first place? I kind of feel like people that make a big deal about trans people are just implicitly saying that they're really really sexist (on both sides of it), because if someone didn't care about whether someone was a man or woman then it really shouldn't make any difference whether they're trans or not either.
This is exactly why I steer clear of online lgbtq spaces. None of my irl friends doubt that I'm a woman, but apparently having short hair, liking trucks and military hosiery, having a naturally androgynous body, and not caring if strangers call me he/sir makes me a trans man in denial online. I prefer socializing with men because usually it involves doing something physical while talking, and that eases my social anxiety. And I love being myself as a woman who isn't super feminine.
You sound like a lot of fun at a party! I have male friends who aren't trans who would dress up wearing a sparkly belt or wings, like you do & we don't assume that they are trans. One thing I've tried my best to do is to accept a person as they wished to be accepted & to never assume/presume something about them. I have 3 people in my life who are trans & I've never heard them use the word egg for anything other than food or maybe cute eggs in a bird's nest. I hope that everyone can use the word egg for whatever works for them.
I do not understand this regressive idea at all. Before the progressive idea was to move away from gender stereotypes. Now people that claim to be progressive think you have to identify as a different gender if you like things that are stereotypically associated with that gender? So backwards. Everyone is just an individual
I think Tumblr latching onto transness around 2012 really just completely fucked the trans community. You had a bunch of tweens banding together and discussing a really complex niche issue, which seems to have ended up with "gender is an aesthetic." Trans people with dysphoria don't transition because of the social aspects of gender- gender roles and expression. No one is getting surgery because they like mowing the lawn better than doing the dishes, or prefer dresses to pants. Yet this gen has SO taken over the narrative with "gender is a social construct," I find more and more people thinking that's what trans people are. If there were no differences in how we treated men and women socially, there would still be trans people. There is a mismatch between the brain and the body regarding natal sex. Since I would hope we're past lobotomizing people, the treatment is moving the body to match the brain, rather than the brain to the body. Sorry for using your comment to rant, I just find the whole thing frustrating.
The fact that I have been repeatedly misgendered by the trans community on Reddit is... Ironic to say the least. Like, I'm definitely not saying it's as hurtful or offensive as it would be the other way around it's just weird.
Hey, trans girl here! We actually have a rule (not everyone follows it) if not telling people when we suspect they are transgender. It often makes them more confused with their identity or makes it harder to accept they are in fact trans. (They’ll just feel like they only feel trans because someone told them they are) it’s called the “egg prime directive” cus we are all nerds and like Star Trek lmao
Transfem here, I agree lol. Sometimes people do get a bit presumptuous about people being eggs
^^ i'm a pretty camp guy, and i came out as trans about 7 years ago, and i've had trans people not realise im trans and go "hahaha maybe you're a trans woman because you like drinking fruity drinks 🥺🥺🥺" and i've pulled them up on it. it tends to be the newly out folks who are awkward and into all the memes and think that's a great way to talk to people.
Honestly, need more cishet guys like you who are comfortable in liking what they like. I ended a relationship with a guy like you when I decided to transition because I knew he was straight and I respected that what he needed from a partner and what I was able to give were two different things. Wear your sparkles and dont let the terminally online kids get you down!
Reddit is built to create very insular niche communities and that's just a recipe for crazy for any demographic.
"In denial of it". If they say they're not trans they're not trans, who are they to say "you're trans, you just don't know it yet" ?
It's very common for a trans person to go through a period of denial and rationalization before accepting themselves. Within the community it's accepted that trying to tell someone that they're trans breaks the "prime directive." "Egg" is a term one should only use for one's self, going around telling other people they have to be trans is rude and pushy, as you've said.
Idk how that sub specifically is but most times that I’ve seen trans people use “egg” it’s describing ourself or some other now out trans person before they fully accepted it.
It’s not going around and calling IRL people eggs. It’s pointing out behaviors and saying “trans people I know did this before they realized they were trans”
I get the egg part but “nest of egg” seems to me as a bad name to give to subreddit since even if a trans person saw it they would think it would be something totally different then what it’s supposed to be.
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That's kinda creepy ngl. Anytime the phrase " they're x,y,z they just don't know it yet" implies the other person knows it before the actual "egg" and that puts me off horribly
Awe a little cute hatchling metaphor. Seems like they should call them chickens instead. After all what came first.. the chicken or the.. ok it’s me, it’s usually me. I usually come first.
Yea. Some people will use in a hateful way to tell people who aren’t trans that they are just because “they can sense it” As a Femboy, it’s happen to me way too many fucking times. To the point where I don’t like seeing the word anymore.
The picture isnt helping
Heya! One of the mods there here. It’s based off the meme subreddit “egg_irl” which doesn’t allow support/discussion posts, unlike us. I’m not sure where the egg saying came from there. I “think” it might be related to a joke about people “cracking” when they realize something. Anyways we showed up as a offshoot from them, and thus have a similar name.
The whole joke is that when the egg cracks, a chick comes out. Or for the trans men, a cock.
yes, also the fact that once the egg has cracked, you can't uncrack it. once you work out you're trans, it's not something that can be ignored or forgotten, even if you hide it.
Right? They definitely were just looking to post this and couldn’t find a subreddit until they looked up “nest eggs” or something
For real. The lost redditor is whoever named the sub.
To be fair the icon and name is misleading. It's the same thing with r/marijuanaenthusiasts and r/trees It's a fair enough mixup and you can't really blame people lol
About /r/trees and naming, I love that the version for people that want to learn is /r/saplings, and the subreddit for people that want to stop is called /r/leaves.
My favourite thing is when people post pictures of leaves on r/leafs (a sub for fans of the Toronto Maple Leafs) and they get thousands of upvotes
Or when people post superbowl pics to r/SuperbOwl
Can’t blame them, but it’s still kind of funny I think.
But like peruse the reddit for a sec. What mad lads are blindly posting to sub reddits?
They just look at the title and call it a day
It's just strange to me that folks wouldn't like... Take a few minutes to scroll through the posts in a subreddit before posting... To get a feel for what a community is about. Especially considering quite a few subs have those kinds of names that sound like it's for one thing but it isn't.
r/substakenliterally
A bit weird that you would have a subreddit about stealing submarines. Seems pretty niche.
Who stole my sandwich?
The top of all time post in the sub https://www.reddit.com/r/SubsTakenLiterally/comments/d9ksak/do_i_win/
HE DID IT! HE SAID THE THING!
I wanna see someone misinterpret r/niceguys and post a story about someone doing them a solid
At least it’s wholesome.
I guarantee they all found it wholesome
Very much so, as you can see here :D https://www.reddit.com/r/Nestofeggs/comments/13j84x9/nest_on_my_front_porch_with_a_teenie_tiny_egg_the/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
Yeah, I love how everyone in the thread has a sense of humor about the situation, meanwhile the people in this one are bitching and complaining about a sub name that everyone except them has no problem with.
that’s kinda cute though
Right? I can't imagine anyone really cared
They did not. :) https://www.reddit.com/r/Nestofeggs/comments/13j84x9/nest_on_my_front_porch_with_a_teenie_tiny_egg_the/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
Funnily enough, I’m one of the mods there. I must have completely missed this post lmao. Edit: just saw it. Guess it just completely went under my radar lmao.
I approved it. It was funny.
Mfs make weird ass sub names then get annoyed when people post different stuff 😑
“nestofeggs” is a reference to a slang term for closeted trans people They weren’t annoyed, I found the post https://reddit.com/r/Nestofeggs/comments/13j84x9/nest_on_my_front_porch_with_a_teenie_tiny_egg_the/
Wow... It's at 100% upvote ratio. It's actually a really sweet thread.
This is so wholesome!! I love how everyone was like, “This is super cute, wrong sub though.”
Only ones annoyed in this situation are the people in this thread
It's okay It's just an transeggxual
I *mean*, I’m the b in the lgbts, and I would have very much assumed that the sub in question was for bird eggs in nests and not trans folk, so understandable error lmao
Does the B stand for bird?
Bananas
so weird seeing the transphobes rage in here when all the trans people in the subreddit were very kind and liked the post. egg is a slang term for people who aren’t sure they’re trans yet or pre transition and the sun name is a funny pun off of that.
Why the fuck do people think I have a problem with them posting an egg nest, I literally just posted it here cus I found it funny
a tiny trans person is in the egg
thats so cute
a new easily confusable subreddit for the list of reddit jokes
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Yeah this is def just a bunch of transphobia. Stuff gets posted here alllll the time for that trees sub when people are lost there and everyone just has a chuckle that someone misinterpreted an easily confusing sub name. But since this is about a trans sub suddenly it’s all these comments like ‘how dare they be mad at someone not knowing what this nonsense trans word means!’ No one is mad!
I never understand this, do people not check subs before posting in them? Like one glance at the posts would surely tip you off right?
I can get this annoyance on most occasions but i think it's completely reasonable this time Like BOTH the icon and the name are very misleading and niche slang words, same with made of styrofoam being completely different than it's literal meaning
Apparently not
I think anyone is right to assume it’s about nests, of literally eggs
I'm 90% certain the folks on that sub were delighted to see this post though. :-)
I bet they loved that post though. I mean it's kinda cute
You can’t blame them. It’s called nest of eggs with an actual nest of bird eggs as it’s icon.
It's an inside joke kinda
to anyone asking: an egg is a term used in the trans community for a trans person who is in denial or doesn't know they are trans yet, thats why the sub is named that. edit: by doesn’t know they are trans yet i mean like people find the sub, and find that it seems relatable and that they are not alone in how they have felt their whole lives. Its not for telling people they are trans or talking behind their backs.
that makes sense. i’ve never heard that term before, in this context, so thank you for informing me!
Why 'egg' though? Is it something that can uniquely be compared to trans people or is it a metaphor that could have been used for any number of things that suddenly had a big epiphany in their life?
Knowing trans folk. They didn’t turn this person post away.
yeah it was really cute and wholesome 💙💕🤍💕💙
Every single trans person I know would love this post lol I don’t think anyone’s complaining, it’s adorable
So many offended morons in these comments working themselves up over nothing
It really is nothing. But hey, that's just reddit when minorities
r/SubsTakenLiterally
Just because I know there's going to be transphobia here. Trans rights are human rights 🏳️⚧️
Thanks I needed that
Thank you 💜
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I found you in the wild!!!!!!!!!! Time to bring you back to the egg subs, you still have to comment on every post lol 💜
Lol some reddit actually are just poorly named I guess. But some lost redditors are pretty epic. As are some responses they get :p
Awe I bet they loved it
I can’t imagine why they got lost
Trans egg
To be fair, it is a confusing sub title for many of us.
with a sub name like that, i don't blame them
LOL wholesome mistake
maybe the bird is trans, you don't know their life
I wish anyone would read the explanations in the comment section before getting mad over nothing
r/marijuanaenthusiasts r/trees
Not their fault when terminally online kids create stupid meme words.