It’ll never be truly equal as long as there’s a fixed order of the letters.
The only way to make it fair is to include all the letters (from every writing system, not just the latin because that feels overly eurocentric) and the guarantee true randomness of the order or come up with some system where the order is shifted by one every time it’s mentioned.
Also, the original letters must be in the center to begin with (to make them equally distant for RTL or LTR readers), to make up for their historical over exposure.
Eh, I’m asexual (technically panromantic asexual, but that’s way too much of a mouthful for regular use), and I usually just call myself queer. I don’t need to get into the specifics with everybody and their mother. Unless there’s a possibility of a relationship or someone is a close friend, it’s just not really relevant.
Also, arguing about the appropriate letters to include in the acronym when we should be worrying about stuff like members of the community being attacked and murdered on a way too regular basis, or being portrayed as pedophiles, or all of the attempts to roll back all the rights we’ve gained is just such a waste of time.
elouboub@kbin.social 3 years ago
So much for equal representation.
StenSaksTapir@feddit.dk 3 years ago
It’ll never be truly equal as long as there’s a fixed order of the letters. The only way to make it fair is to include all the letters (from every writing system, not just the latin because that feels overly eurocentric) and the guarantee true randomness of the order or come up with some system where the order is shifted by one every time it’s mentioned. Also, the original letters must be in the center to begin with (to make them equally distant for RTL or LTR readers), to make up for their historical over exposure.
Chunk@lemmy.world 3 years ago
If they put a letter for every sexuality that people identified with their would have hundreds of letters.
frickineh@lemmy.world 3 years ago
Eh, I’m asexual (technically panromantic asexual, but that’s way too much of a mouthful for regular use), and I usually just call myself queer. I don’t need to get into the specifics with everybody and their mother. Unless there’s a possibility of a relationship or someone is a close friend, it’s just not really relevant.
Also, arguing about the appropriate letters to include in the acronym when we should be worrying about stuff like members of the community being attacked and murdered on a way too regular basis, or being portrayed as pedophiles, or all of the attempts to roll back all the rights we’ve gained is just such a waste of time.