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[-] Kuori@hexbear.net 54 points 1 year ago

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

[-] AcidSmiley@hexbear.net 46 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] silent_water@hexbear.net 27 points 1 year ago

I do the same for similar reasons.

[-] AcidSmiley@hexbear.net 30 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

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

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