posthexbearposting [they/them]@hexbear.net to the_dunk_tank@hexbear.netEnglish · edit-22 years ago"In 6’2, 225 pounds with about 10% body fat. I look like a man. I act like a man. Nobody has confused me for anything but a man."hexbear.netimagemessage-square122fedilinkarrow-up1144arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up1143arrow-down1image"In 6’2, 225 pounds with about 10% body fat. I look like a man. I act like a man. Nobody has confused me for anything but a man."hexbear.netposthexbearposting [they/them]@hexbear.net to the_dunk_tank@hexbear.netEnglish · edit-22 years agomessage-square122fedilinkfile-text
Please can we make this a MOTD banner text? https://lemmy.ml/comment/3944938 https://hexbear.net/comment/3970038
minus-squareAssortedBiscuits [they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up24·2 years ago the most truly masculine men i’ve ever met never felt the need to be this aggressive about how strong and manly they are. The flip side is there are plenty of eggs who had an “I’m a manly man who does manly man things” phase.
minus-squareTakatakatakatakatak@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·2 years agoWhat’s an egg?
minus-squareposthexbearposting [they/them]@hexbear.netOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·2 years agoSomeone who is trans but hasn’t realized it yet. Usually experiencing some form of internalized transphobia or denial before coming out. Breaking out of your egg is like the trans version of coming out of the closet to yourself
minus-squareTakatakatakatakatak@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·2 years agoOkie doke. In NZ, calling someone an egg means something else. It’s like a lighthearted jibe usually delivered with no malice behind it to mean someone is being silly/ a clown.
minus-squareposthexbearposting [they/them]@hexbear.netOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·2 years agoyeah we have a similar term in Aus. Calling someone an “egg” is the same. And “good egg” vs “bad egg” is also used https://www.abc.net.au/education/learn-english/egg-idioms-and-expressions/11003292
minus-squarebananon [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 years agoWhat, you egg? [He stabs him]
The flip side is there are plenty of eggs who had an “I’m a manly man who does manly man things” phase.
What’s an egg?
Someone who is trans but hasn’t realized it yet. Usually experiencing some form of internalized transphobia or denial before coming out.
Breaking out of your egg is like the trans version of coming out of the closet to yourself
Okie doke. In NZ, calling someone an egg means something else.
It’s like a lighthearted jibe usually delivered with no malice behind it to mean someone is being silly/ a clown.
yeah we have a similar term in Aus. Calling someone an “egg” is the same. And “good egg” vs “bad egg” is also used
https://www.abc.net.au/education/learn-english/egg-idioms-and-expressions/11003292
What, you egg? [He stabs him]