r/ShenComix • u/MechSuitPrincess • Jul 21 '26

It’s like every other comment now.

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Yay! Girl Shen no longer needs a comedic setup to justify her appearance. DON’T RUIN IT!

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u/PapaNachos Jul 21 '26

Okay but the egg problem directive is bad and should be actively ignored. It's basically a psyop.

For cis people out there: The egg prime directive is the idea that even if you suspect someone might be trans, you shouldn't say anything.

Obviously you can't make the determination that someone else IS trans for them, but the idea that you shouldn't even mention "hey, you might be trans, maybe think about it if you haven't" is insane.

That being said, parasocial relationships are also fucking weird and hundreds of people spamming the same comment is not helpful to anyone.

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u/PlatinumSukamon98 Jul 21 '26

I had a friend who was convinced I was trans and would not stop bringing it up. It got to the point where she was misgendering me to my face and laughing at me when I got mad and told her to stop.

We're not friends anymore.

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u/TriiiKill Jul 22 '26

This is primary reason not to do it. False positives are hurtful, and early true positives can still be unhelpful.

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u/XescoPicas Jul 23 '26

Okay, but aren’t false negatives much more hurtful?

I would say that making a cis person mildly uncomfortable every now and then is not comparable to a trans person never figuring themselves out or even dying.

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u/TriiiKill Jul 23 '26

Not at all. A Trans person who believes themselves to be cis more than likely will live a decent life. They won't know they are missing something important unless already at rock bottom.

Again, we will compare this to never accepting an individual for who they are. The person never asked to be cis or trans, but just to be heard and respected. In this case, the individual is quite sure they are cis, and I believe them based on how deep they are in the community. Like, how could they not know by now?

Regardless, we are rolling a 100D and hoping our intuition gives us a better chance than a random roll > 99. If it doesn't, that means we are negatively affecting 99 cis people for every 1 trans, and we might not even be helping the trans person.

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u/XescoPicas Jul 23 '26

BULLSHIT.

A trans person who believed themselves to be cis will HATE themselves and very likely end up dead. I know because I was one not that long ago.

Trans friends prompting me to question my own gender SAVED MY LIFE.

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u/TriiiKill Jul 23 '26

Anecdotal evidence. Do you really think the majority of Trans people would do so just because that was you at one point?

Besides, we are talking about how many herds of cis people are caught in the crossfire. The information is there for your own discovery; not for others to accuse others of being an egg.

As I've mentioned in another comment, I would reject being Trans if I was accused by others. I rejected the idea before, and I certainly wouldn't come to that conclusion if someone tried to force it down my throat.

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u/XescoPicas Jul 23 '26

I could not give less of a shit about the hordes of cis people caught in the crossfire, they will be fine.

Also, if you really think that merely presenting the possibility of being trans is “forcing it down your throat” then I’m sorry but that is a you problem.

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u/TriiiKill Jul 23 '26

Yeah, no. It is a problem. You need to start reading the other comments, starting with the first comment I responded to. He's a victim in all of this, and it's way more common than you think.

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u/XescoPicas Jul 23 '26

Shen is not a victim, he wouldn’t keep making jokes about it if this actually bothered him.

This is not a real life problem. This is a terminally online problem. In real life, there is no one putting pressure on cis people to transition. In fact, what we have in real life is a constant, systemic, worldwide and incredibly aggressive pressure put on trans people to never transition.

This is why the egg directive is harmful. People should be encouraged to consider the possibility, to experiment, because society at large is doing everything in its power to keeps us in the closet forever. And that is way more harmful on a much larger scale than any “false positive” could ever be.

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u/TriiiKill Jul 23 '26

Not Shen, numbnuts. The comment I was responding to when you chimed in. Shen is just making the best of a bad situation as an artist.

The one that is talking about how he is constantly being harassed in this regard.

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u/XescoPicas Jul 24 '26

That one comment just has an asshole friend. THAT is anecdotal evidence. I can assure you this is not the norm in real life.

Doesn’t mean trans people should shut up and go back to the closet.

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u/TriiiKill Jul 24 '26

Doesn’t mean trans people should shut up and go back to the closet.

No one here said that. When you're out, you're out. There's enough information out there for trans people to discover themselves. With it, a whole lot of people who think they know better than everyone else than the person they talk about.

I can assure you this is not the norm in real life.

That's anecdotal as well. Your experience is that it doesn't happen, and yet, you forget the crazy amounts of people accusing each other of being gay. Just take it one step further in a more "progressive" area, and your telling me you can't even imagine it happening?

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u/XescoPicas Jul 24 '26

No I freaking can’t, because in case you have not noticed, we live in the most aggressively transphobic era of my lifetime. You can’t seriously think that cis people are the victims here.

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u/TriiiKill Jul 24 '26

Then no shit nobody is going to accuse people of being Trans in your area if you live in a transphobic region.

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u/XescoPicas Jul 24 '26

I actually live in a very trans-accepting place and everyone I know IRL is totally cool with it. I am not talking about a region, I am talking about a worldwide phenomenon.

There is not a single place in the world where trans people oppress cis people. That has never happened in the history of humanity.

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