Comment on LGBTQIA++

• surewhynotlem@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  IT folks solved this ages ago.

  {A-Z}+

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  • 1st@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The second I have to use regular expressions I'm turning straight.

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    • Spaghetti_Hitchens@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I think being fluent in regular expressions probably makes you involuntarily celebrate so orientation won't matter.

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  • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    wouldn’t that match STRAIGHT ? 🤔

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• SkyezOpen@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “The Gays™” generally gets the point across.

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• Stamets@startrek.website ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Because then it doesn’t feel like equal representation for everyone. It feels like Lesbians are getting the most representation with everyone being an after thought. While lesbians are awesome, it does feel shitty for everyone else. That’s why so many additions have been made. It doesn’t feel representative of everyone or equal. Also why I throw the whole thing out and just call us all something else. No one gets specific representation but it goes back to the original meaning of the Pride flag. Every color in equal representation, showing the diversity of us all and how we all deserve to be seen and heard.

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  • Katana314@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨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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    • Stamets@startrek.website ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      But most countries are not in the term “The United Nations” either

      I mean… no country is in that term. That’s the point that I’m trying to make. If you have a name for a collection of individual groups then the collective name shouldn’t mention any one particular group.

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  • MotoAsh@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨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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    • Stamets@startrek.website ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Lobsters.

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      • octoperson@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That’s Jordan Peterson fans

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  • Acinonyx@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨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 [please don’t kill me] ‘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

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    • octoperson@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Wouldn’t be the first time a term of abuse got appropriated by its target group

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• captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Because L+ is the only streaming service I’d pay for

  Seriously though the history of lgbt as an acronym comes down to the fact that it began with gay men and lesbians organizing separately and bi and trans people being part of those organizations, but bisexual and trans groups began differentiating and separately organizing while we all began realizing we needed to work together more in order to actually change things.

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