Gonna be a lot fewer humans.
Office management complaining about how much space eggs take up at work.
It’s not that hard to provide a room for people to sit on their eggs when they need to.
There would be so many weird egg posts on social media. Could you imagine how horrible “influencers” would be that do extravagant gender reveals if they had an egg to display?
Also weird egg porn would be a thing which I preemptively find rather disturbing.
Society is divided between those born in old way, and the egg-born. More discriminations, hate is coming. Civil war is looming
Would this mean that instead of periods, you just lay an unfertilised egg once a month? Do you have to constantly be hathing the egg? Are the eggs hard like bird eggs or soft like reptilian eggs?
If the egg required constantly being there, I think that in our current society, that’d become the mother’s task. Some couples would take turns hatching it, like dad is with the egg until noon when he goes to work and the mom takes over. Conservatives would be losing their minds over fathers who hatch eggs because it’s ‘women’s work’.
Rich people would first start hiring people to hatch their eggs for them, and probably soon move on to hatching machines. Later automated hatchers would become more and more common until only the very poor would hatch their eggs manually. Chances are that hatching your eggs by yourself would become a tradwife thing soon.
There would probably be a huge debate over whether or not it is okay to eat human eggs. Eating the eggshells after the baby has hatched might become a thing, similar to how some people eat their placentas after giving birth.
Abortion would become much easier and safer to do and really hard to restrict: just smash the egg and dispose of the evidence. In poor areas, there would probably be a lot of abandoned eggs; on a rainy night I hear the doorbell ringing. When I open the door, before me is an egg, gently wrapped in a floral blanket. I manage to catch a quick glimpse of a young woman’s silhouette running away before she disappears behind the corner
Egg prices REALLY go up
Companies start selling incubator subscriptions and making massive profits; women (and men where applies) lose their rights to maternity leave.
Abortion is now called “Making an omelette”
Also, if you think we are overly protective of pregnant mothers now, its gonna be worse when a minor bump causes the shell to crack.
Is eating your own egg cannibalism or breakfast?
To the best of my knowledge, all egg layers have cloaca (the one hole) and no external sex organs, so that could abate a bunch of pointless culture war stuff.
Transitioning would be sooo much easier. No surgery, only hormones. Though if we were still mammals despite laying eggs, you might still need top surgery.
If egg-humans were monotremes like a platypus, they would still have mammary glands, but they are also internal. They don’t have nipples, but instead secrete milk through pores in the skin, somewhat like sweating milk, that the babies will just lick at. Other egg layers like birds and reptiles just have babies that hatch ready for regular food, so they don’t have any mammaries to worry about.
May be a little off topic, but do hormones actually affect personality? With no external sex organs of any kind, would transitioning even be a thing? Other than preventing a female from laying an egg, would there be any benefit to any kind of hormonal therapy?
Hormones don’t affect personality, but a whole lot of other things, such as voice, body hair, facial features etc. Also apparently in some bird species, the males have cloacas that are come a little outside the body, like a bump, so I think that HRT might possibly affect your cloaca.
Ah, good points! Thinking about it again, usually female birds and reptiles are physically larger too, so that would also be noticeable gender difference too, though the female platypus seems smaller than the males.
There sure are a lot of things people take for granted that hormones regulate!
Hospitals would be packed because those eggs need to be taken care of.
A lot more unwanted babies
Or a lot more omelets.
Hell, even just lost babies. Where did I put that thing again?
90% more Mork.
