Wtf is a "LGBTQIA2S+"?
WHY DOES A FUCKING ACRONYM NEED TO GET LONGER AND LONGER?!? WHY?
I think the A is for asexual.. like why tf would someone not interested in sexuality care. At a certain point it's just someone wanting attention and I think we passed it a few characters ago. Before you, gentle reader, get upset see it for yourself.. these come from Google search, obvious joke ones were ignored:
LGBT
LGBTQ
LGBTQ+ <- this is literally all inclusive, no need to go further
LGBTQ2 ("two spirit".. aka furries)
LGBTQIA+ (longest "official" acronym)
LGBTQIA2S+
LGBTQIAAP+
LGBTQIAGNC
LGBTQQIP2SAA
LGBTIQCAPGNGFNBA+
If that doesn't make it obvious I'll leave you with a quote from Peter Tatchell:
It’s great to be inclusive, but the new alphabet soup is a confusing and alienating mess — made even worse when people get into spats over missing initials or the inclusion of initials they disagree with. The longest I’ve ever seen is LGBTIQCAPGNGFNBA. This is absurd. It makes us a laughing stock and devalues serious issues around sexuality and gender.
Yo just so you know two spirit has nothing to do with furries. It usually refers to gender nonconforming traditions in indigenous american communities and has largely come into favor in Canada as part of recent campaigns to recognize tribal communities and their histories. These movements have obviously existed for a long time but the revelations about atrocities committed at residential schools seems to have really pushed them into the mainstream.
Otherwise, I think you're thinking of "otherkin" who are not generally included under the LGBTQ umbrella, but are frequently brought up to discredit queer progress as a movement.
Even without that it's not about furries, they're thinking of therians. Furries just think anthro animals look cute, not that they're an animal in a human suit.
Wouldn't we want to have it as easy to pronounce/write/remember as possible? I feel like even the people involved are not taking this seriously by making it longer and longer. It surely looks like more like a joke that way.
It's different with nearly anyone you ask too, it's not like there's some standardization of the long ones. It's literally "whatever the fuck I just thought up and you're intolerant if you don't respect it" happening. Which brings us right back to it being attention seeking.
Exactly. How can people take them seriously this way? Well, outside their own echo chamber, of course.
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