I love the LGBTQ+ acronym because it pisses off assholes

lmao go eat some grass nerd

I wonder how many fucking numbers and letters they will keep adding over the fucking years.

Numbers and letters over the years:

“You shall love your neighbor as yourself”

Galations 5:14

“Be genial, sweet and kind towards your companions.”

Mino-ī-Kherad, II.7

“For my people are foolish; they know me not; they are stupid children; they have no understanding. They are ‘wise’—in doing evil! But how to do good they know not.”

Jeremiah 4:22

LEARN THE FUCKING ACRONYM!!!

You named yourself after a washer as best I could tell, not quite sure what point you’re trying to make. Are you also gonna bump your name out a bit to get with the times or are you gonna grow old and mad with the years?

Edit: Random fucking morons attacking me and calling me a bigot, you are truly a bunch of imbecile.

(sic)

LMAOOO now go make your Hexbear cyberbullying callout post on Estonian potato forums

oh no I posted bigotry and now they’re calling me out for bigotry - I’m the real victim here.

“The minorities are bullying me! Help, help, I’m being repressed! Come see the violence inherent in their mockery!”

my totally real gay friends think you’re silly, that’s why you have to police your activism to appeal to me.

Fuck off.

you are quoting something I did not say, you too, can fuck right off to an eye exam.

“My name is @Echo71Niner@lemm.ee and rainbows make me cry! Waaah waaaah”

We know how to read between the lines, you’re not subtle dickhead

You never heard of paraphrasing?

Illiterate and bigoted, name a more iconic duo.

BREAKING: China’s new Bureau of Gender has announced 121,890 new genders. Furthermore, the PM announced yesterday “Every Christian church in Shanghai will be replaced by a gay club.”

no more half measures walter 👍

I don’t give a shit.

🤖 + 👶 🧠

Did i just trick it with a fake news headline lmao

There are four letters in the headline of this article. Is that too many for you?

it’s going to be 10000 letters, bigot

Eat shit and die, bigot

What’s your life worth?

every time you complain about it we add more

we will keep including people until you choke on it, bigot

Honestly, including people is why i prefer just saying queer over using acronyms. It’s completely open-ended, it doesn’t create a hierachy based on who gets named first and who ends up with one of the slots behind the LGBT that may or may not be included by a given speaker, it’s easy to use, it doesn’t shoehorn people into rigid categories and makes it easy to fit in for people who are questioning or have complex identities - and it pisses off the exact type of bourgousified, reactionary, assimilationist, racist, mysogynist, transphobic, biphobic cis gays that the farthead you’re replying to refers to when they bring up how supposedly “gay people shit talk” all of this.

disagree, queer is not all encompassing. if you dont identify as queer but you still want to identify with the community the acronym is still the best descriptor. as for the order, i do support updating it by putting trans first and pushing bisexuals down the list in favor of pansexuals.

You know why the L in LGBT goes first, right? For me that’s very important and I’ll never change that.

queer is not all encompassing

It’s literally a catchall term for anybody who’s not het, cis, allo or endo.

pushing bisexuals down the list in favor of pansexuals

As a bisexual trans woman exclusively dating t4t, let’s NOT start the “bi is actually transphobic, you should call yourself pan” nonsense debate. It always leads to awful bad faith discussions, pushes bi erasure and completely ignores any and all actually transphobic dating behavior, of which there is plenty, none of which is connected to calling yourself bisexual.

I don’t follow - my understanding of the term is that it encompasses everyone who fits under the umbrella. if you’re not under the umbrella, the acronym isn’t going to fit either, no? can you give me an example of who you mean?

I’ve seen/heard of people specifically disavowing the term “queer” for their personal identity, but only a couple times and I, like others here, much prefer “queer” as a catchall term for brevity in all cases where there isn’t someone objecting to it being applied to them.

yeah, I’d be curious to learn why. like I’m all for a different umbrella term but it’s hard to pick one without understanding the complaint.

pushing bisexuals down the list in favor of pansexuals.

Bad take, considering bi erasure exists.

im not trying to do a bi erasure, bi people are valid. im just saying as someone who was bi sexual who later became pan sexual after learning about the term i just think changing some of the letters around would be good ways to raise awareness about different genders and sexualities in the acronym. so many people know what lgbt is but they dont really know the plus part. the first four are really important to the broader conception of gender and sexual identity as a whole. look if we can change the flag i dont think the acronym is sacrosanct either, i do however think we need an acronym.

i think lesbian, gay, and bisexual should be lower on the acronym. i think trans people should be first since they are receiving most of the targeting and attacks out of any group in the community right now, i think pansexuals, asexuals, and nonbinaries could really benefit from a representation bump. TPAN, rolls off the tongue. we can keep lgbt too. nobody got rid of the pride flag after the progress flag. both can exist at the same time. i just think its a representation issue.

pushing bisexuals down the list in favor of pansexuals

why

Its a sociological descriptor not a personal one. You can be queer and not identify as queer, and you can identify as queer and not be queer.

same tbh, plus i find i trip over acronyms a lot and it gives Certain Assholes the feeling that they can use that as a vector for attack (“it’s so complicated even they can’t keep track!” etc)

supposedly “gay people shit talk” all of this.

worth mentioning scumfuck up there only added that bit after getting criticized for their bigotry. homophobes are all magically harvey milk’s favorite nephew the instant someone calls them out.

worth mentioning scumfuck up there only added that bit after getting criticized for their bigotry. homophobes are all magically harvey milk’s favorite nephew the instant someone calls them out.

Yeah that’s common, i see that a lot both online and irl and they always mean somebody like that one gay dude in their QAnon chat group who dates muslim men exclusively while also wanting to genocide them.

I do the same for similar reasons.

That said, i don’t mind when ohter people go with the acronyms, and it often tells you a lot about the background of the person using it. Like, i see that it starts with 2S, i immediately know they’re Canadian because that’s the only place in the world doing that. Or when somebody still says GLBT like they did before AIDS, i know i’m reading a post from a cis gay boomer. And when i see something including LGBTT, i know they’re a transmedicalist and possibly from Southwest Germany and think you’re not valid if you don’t get bottom surgery.

Are the two Ts for counting “transsexual” and transgender as different things that are both included?

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