Disclaimer: I’m not making fun of queer people, I’m making fun of the acronym.

    • MotoAsh@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      Naw, we just need to come up with words for different types of people that all start with L. Then we’ll be covered.

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      9 months ago

      I get the criticism, but most countries are not in the term “The United Nations” either. It feels possible to make a grouped, organized label that supports minority sexuality groups and opposes bigotry.

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      9 months ago

      Also why I throw the whole thing out and just call us all something else.

      true equality would either be just ‘+’, without any letters, or including every letter, which seems impossible.

      or like you said, something completely else. I personally like - hear me out - ‘alphabet people’. I understand that rightoids use this term as an insult so it isn’t usable, which is a shame, because apart from its negative connotation it has a few nice upsides:

      • sexualities/genders are being abbreviated by single letters already and since the alphabet contains all letters, everyone is included

      • ‘people’ is completely neutral towards everyone as well