Orientation: Aromantic Asexual (AroAce)

Identity + Gender Modality: Agender + Isogender (Please note I don’t identify as cis or Trans)

Pronouns: Use any, Idc, *mostly doesn’t really matter to me (just not it/its).

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Cake day: July 26th, 2023

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  • I can see how it would, I can also see how the meme on its own could in and of itself be validating to the femboy experience. Since you know, it is actually true to a degree since there are femboys who want boobs and to be pretty, the problem is that the second interpretation, the implied invalidates them, and I think it’s important to make sure people are aware of that. It’s not just the memes themselves but the comments that follow afterwards. Obviously bad people are going to comment maliciously, but good people should know or be made aware of the potential to be hurtful, towards a group they might not even be aware of.


  • I know here it’s not a huge issue, the thing is, Egging is an issue which is rarely if ever addressed, and if it is, it usually isn’t at the sources of it, typically it’s addressed in the femboy communities. I think it’s important for us, all of us to recognize how it can be hurtful, so we think more about it before doing or saying things that could make GNC people uncomfortable or invalidated.

    I can fully understand how memes can feel validating to one group and I respect that. I just feel it’s important to be careful not to be invalidating at the same time. One person’s happiness and validation should not come at the cost of another person’s happiness and validation.



  • TBH felix/ferris is kind of a weird case bcuz the anime keeps him unambiguously cis and the books have trans subtext

    What do you mean by that exactly? I never really read the books so I’m not sure. Like do they up and say he is trans or is it an interpretation thing where people think he’s trans? Just curious because I know in Egg culture there’s the idea that if people do or say certain things it makes them trans regardless of how they identify. I don’t agree with that idea at all, I think that the way people identify is what makes or breaks gender identity, having provisions to semantically invalidate a person’s identity doesn’t feel right at all and isn’t considerate to how the person feels.

    I did watch a video which covered some of the things and gave his take on it from his perspective as a femboy but I’m not sure how complete it was, and it was 2 years old when I watched it, and I’m not 100% sure it covered everything since people say there’s apparently a lot of stuff there.


  • I know that it’s not really popular to respect femboys

    I genuinely have no clue where you got this idea.

    I kind of explained it badly, but from a lot of what I’ve seen online in mainstream media a lot of communities either tend to Egg femboys really bad and say they’re trans girls in-denial, or will say that Femboys are harmful or appropriate trans people. One negative comment stuck out to me in a conversation around Felix Argyle: “The only people upset about other people claiming Ferris-chan is a girl are cis [gay slur removed] who think it’s hot for a boy to dress as a girl.” It definitely doesn’t feel right to me because I know it isn’t true but I wasn’t (and still am not) entirely sure that this wasn’t the mindset of most common people. That’s why I said it wasn’t really popular, I’ve gotten an idea that a lot of people don’t think that. I do not think that Femboys are objects to be fetishized and I feel that like anyone their identities should be respected, but for a while (and this probably continues on Reddit) it seemed like other people didn’t think that.

    EDIT: I worded my point badly, but reading it over I realize that this is actually kinda shitty, so instead let’s see what we can do!

    HOWEVER- if enough users want to change that and open this com up to both girlfailures and boyfailures, I’m entirely for that as I don’t see any immediate issues with it.

    I will go over the desc again and figure out what new icon to go with. (maybe some kind of poll would help? I’ll think it over)

    I think a poll would be a good idea.


  • I think as a suggestion it might be a good idea to either replace the icon with one that isn’t of a femboy or change the description/rules to be more accepting, respectful, and acknowledge femboys and GNC poeple better.

    I’ve seen a couple posts here which can be quite invalidating to Femboys and GNC people, and I know it wasn’t the posters’ intentions but I also know that things that unintentionally invalidate can hurt people. I know that it’s not really popular to respect femboys (and some people in the community think they aren’t worthy of respect) but if this community really is open to all I think it’s a good idea.

    The biggest issue is with posts that imply or state that acting or looking or wanting these things makes you a girl, that can be quite hurtful to GNC people, Non-binaries, and especially transmascs because many of these people do not identify as girls, and some might even be AFAB and such calling or telling them they should be a girl can make them dysphoric and is unintentionally transphobic to the AFAB ones.

    I feel like to have a healthy community these issues need to be addressed, on !egg_irl@reddit.com they didn’t and many toxic instances of egging and transphobia have occurred because of it. I’m aware this community tends to have a harsher outlook in some cases that can come off as self-hating:

    Warning: I have a tendency to post things that may at times come from a self-hating perspective or things that are funny coming from another queer person.

    The thing I’m talking about doesn’t necessarily relate to that, as the content I’m discussing makes implications about GNC people that are harmful broadly, and actually can be more hurtful coming from a queer person than an ordinary Non-queer bigot. I.e. Saying or implying an AFAB transmasc femboy is just a girl/transfem in-denial. I get that this isn’t something that many people think of, but if the community truly is open for all, as it claims:

    This space will always be a safe place for transfems, non-binary people and anybody else in the LGBT Community to come together

    Maybe this should be thought about a bit more.