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We Need A New Name

Discussion in 'Chit Chat' started by roryoswinpond, Nov 22, 2014.

  1. roryoswinpond

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    LGBT kind of has a ring to it, right?
    But it's rather limited in its perspective; the queer community isn't just lesbians, bisexual people, gay people and transgendered people, is it?
    I've seen a whole variety of derivatives, like LGBTQIA, but let's face it, that's way too much of a mouthful.
    We need a new name. Thoughts?
     
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    My thoughts... All these names/labels/pronouns etc... are seriously confusing me. Why must we complicate matters even more?

    I mean, for whose benefit is all this? I don't care... Do you?
     
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    In defiance of heteronormativity, we could just call ourselves "people."

    But because that is not descriptive enough for a society that defaults to straight, I have used "GSM" despite the fact that it was conceived in an attempt to legitimize pedophilia. We all know that's not going to happen, and it's an effective acrostic.
     
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    No, LGBT doesn't have a ring to it. It's a completely random, difficult to say, unacceptable random assemblage of crap.

    The only reason we keep using this initialism is that the people who like it refuse to use a single English word to describe the community.
     
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    :eusa_clap

    Why even a name at all?