If the initialism is the most significant part of this story for you, just fuck off and find someone other place to slowly cultivate your nascent fascism. I know a fucking protest you could join.
this post was submitted on 20 Sep 2023
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You know what? It's really not hard to take it seriously. Have you fucking tried? You get a tiny bit of acceptance from society and already you're acting so fucking privileged. Were you all "don't rock the boat" when it was YOUR rights on the line, asshole?? Or are you too young even to remember that, merely a few years ago??
You can get irrationally angry if you want, but that accronym is useless as it is. They are meant to be short and something easy to remember. When people see that cluster fuck all they will think about is the ridiculousness of the acronym, rather than the troubles that community is going through.
I am in no way trying to diminish their struggles, just saying that the acronym as it is doesn't help. It just serves to push people away from educating themselves on the actual issues.
Is there a way to follow what's going on so that I can plan to be at counter protests when this stuff happens? I need to travel anywhere from 150 to 300 km (one way), so I can't just show up on a whim.
I'm working on a travel and accommodation budget for this kind of thing, but just because I'm retired doesn't mean I can be 1.5-3 hours away from home without some kind of planning.
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two-spirited, it's a first nations thing in Canada, and maybe the USA
Is that not just transgender? It's not a different gender just because they're native American, is it? I don't know much about it.
It's a different cultural tradition
Okay but nothing else in the acronym is a cultural tradition. It's a weird fit.
Even people adding stripes to the flag are missing the point. A rainbow is a spectrum. You're already in there.
Yeah yeah yeah, the very initial intent was one-to-one, but then they dropped a color from that flag, because they couldn't get fabric in the right color. That didn't mean the group was kicked out!
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Approximately the same thing that was wrong with POC that led to BIPOC. Prefixing 2S centres the First Nations experience which has added intersectional layers, just as prefixing BI to POC centres the black and indigenous experiences which have added intersectional layers
In case you are wondering about I and A, that's intersex and asexual/aromantic
Arguably the (first) Q letter covers everyone, but also there are people who grew up with it as a slur used against them who aren't keep on taking the word back.
QUILTBAG was a cute rearrangement when I was in uni two decades ago. LGBTQ+ is not the oldest form either. G used to come before L, etc
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If you like, you can use QUILTBAG as a fun re-ordering (though it doesn't include Two Spirit folks, unfortunately), or GSRM (Gender, Sexuality, Romantic Minorities) as more of a catch-all term