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Panel 1: Shen is sitting at his screen tablet, holding his tablet pen. He looks at you, smiling, and says “Wanna know one cool thing about being a comic artist?”
Panel 2: Shen is now standing upright, the tablet pen having become giant in his hand. How gestures outwards with his other hand and says “You can draw yourself however you want!”
Panel 3: Shen magically "ting"s his forehead with his tablet pen, changing himself into a Sol Badguy-esque buff dude with a belt and a ponytail. He says “For example, I can draw myself like THIS!”
Panel 4: Shen again magically "ting"s his forehead, changing himself into a girl with a sweatshirt-dress, gym shorts, and choker. He says “OR like THIS!”
Panel 5: Shen winks, does a peace sign, and sticks his tongue out, saying “Bet THIS makes you feel some funny new feelings about me, huh??”
Panel 6: Life now has to hold a raging and frothing-at-the-mouth Shen as he yells “Bet THIS would make it easier to get you to go to my PATREON!!!” and points at you, trying to fight you. Life is saying “Calm down, man!!”
This is all generally true, but omfg does Shen not make it easy.
At this point they’re egg baiting rather than simply getting called an egg for unintentional behavior. I’d be kinda upset if they aren’t trans after these last few posts.edit: I’m realizing now that this comic didn’t say what I thought it did. I hope Shen continues his silliness, as GNC stuff is always fun to see.
I mean by that logic simply being GNC in any way online is considered Egg baiting. I don’t like that outlook very much because people within egg culture spaces say that GNC people are trans by virtue of being GNC. If someone wants to be more feminine because they like the idea of looking and dressing more fem but they enjoy being a guy and they get called an egg for that, they are getting called an egg for “unintentional behavior”. For some of the very flagrantly GNC people including myself it can seem like we’re bringing it upon ourselves on purpose. I can assure you that we’re not. I don’t enjoy being harassed in DMs and sent AI generated porn of my sona because people think I’m a girl in denial (yes that happened and it was disgusting) I do what I love in spite of the abuse I get/have gotten not because I like it or want more of it.
I realized that I misread the original comic as Shen saying that looking like a girl made him feel funny things, which is why I said he was eggbaiting. That’s entirely on me for jumping to a snap judgement while not in the right headspace to think critically. Egg accusations are really harmful, especially online where our knowledge of the person is parasocial at best.
I don’t always see eye to eye with you, but I respect you and hate how much people target you for not fitting into their preconceived notions. I don’t get half of the personal attacks you get, and that’s in no small part thanks to me being a binary trans woman who is somehow perceived as “normal” in this corner of the internet. I fit common schemas, so people almost always sort me into the box I hold no objection to, a luxury people who exist off the gender conforming binary don’t get.
I really should’ve known better, both as a former egg and as someone who experimented off the binary path and hated how little people respected it. I’m sorry that I said something so insensitive.
Ah yeah, I definitely see why that could be considered eggbating. I do honestly think that eggbating is a problem just as much as egg accusations. It almost encourages the behavior.
Although I think it’s better to call out the egging behavior than it is to call out what could be egg baiting, but what also could be people expressing themselves, or encouraging others to express themselves freely. Behavior that can be seen as eggbating by others wouldn’t actually be a problem if egg accusations weren’t thrown around as casually as they are.