Roundcat

I just know they are going to attempt the first 24 hour movie in my lifetime.

Well looky there. The Georgia yankee tryin t'tell me howta pronounce his alma mader!

I said I understand why people feel the need to include terms that are already covered by the Q in LGBTQ, but overextending the acronym and including symbols and numbers causes confusion, defeats the purpose of the acronym, and makes people who are not included feel left out.

The whole point of my argument was I think queer should be the go to term cause it covers everyone and leaves nobody out.

What about the word queer implies that?

For advocating for an all inclusive term rather than an acronym that can be chopped to exclude people?

Yeah fuck me I guess.

The sad thing is I remember Florida used to be one of the better places to be queer in the South. Sure, the countryside was never safe much like the rest of the US, But each city had its own scene, Miami and Orlando were two of the US's gay cities, and as someone who grew up outside of Florida, but close enough to frequently visit, it felt like an Island in a sea of intolerance.

Now I don't even feel safe enough to visit the nearest city on the state border, or even Disneyworld anymore. And people I used to know there are trying to flee to my state, because as bad as things are here, they are no where near as oppressive as they are in Florida.

I think Florida is worth taking note of, because even though Florida's path towards fascism is decades in the making, things really accelerated against the queer community within the past 3 years. It went from being one of the safest places to be queer in the South to being the worst, and I still can't believe how quickly it happened.

I wonder if they do themed work days on the bridge to keep things interesting, like pajama day, crazy hat day, or piping in Tom Jones music to raise morale?

Don'cha be correctin' my gammar like some kinduv harvard elite!

Its ma dialect, y'ain't gonna tell me how t'contract n conjugate!

Doki doki desu ne!

Demo, pika pika, kawai rawr yo! kira kira uwu'tebayo!ヽ(✿ﾟ▽ﾟ)ノ

Considering how many weebs are here, either everybody or nobody.

I think you and I agree on more than we may think. At the end of the day, I want everyone in the community to feel not only included, but unified as well.

I understand the word still hurts others, but so do so many other words commonly used within queer spaces. Gay is still used as a slur and pejorative and yet is still used universally amongst the gay community. I think part of the reclamation process is not only using the word whenever you can, but taking pride in the word as you do it. I do mean it when I say I feel warmth and love in the word queer, and I try to extend that to anyone I use it to describe. If someone within the community expressed discomfort in the word though, I wouldn't use it for them.

And I think at the end of the day you and I can agree we need an all encompassing term. Something that is inclusive, easy to say, versatile, and if possible, steeped in tradition within the queer community, I personally feel queer is the best candidate for that term, but I would be welcoming to better suggestions.

Maybe we need to own the Q so hard that Qanons will be afraid to identify with it.