Posted on 01/10/2013 1:21:43 PM PST by Borges
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If the gay-rights movement today seems to revolve around same-sex marriage, this generation is seeking something more radical: an upending of gender roles beyond the binary of male/female. The core question isn’t whom they love, but who they are — that is, identity as distinct from sexual orientation.
But what to call this movement? Whereas “gay and lesbian” was once used to lump together various sexual minorities — and more recently “L.G.B.T.” to include bisexual and transgender — the new vanguard wants a broader, more inclusive abbreviation. “Youth today do not define themselves on the spectrum of L.G.B.T.,” said Shane Windmeyer, a founder of Campus Pride, a national student advocacy group based in Charlotte, N.C.
Part of the solution has been to add more letters, and in recent years the post-post-post-gay-rights banner has gotten significantly longer, some might say unwieldy. The emerging rubric is “L.G.B.T.Q.I.A.,” which stands for different things, depending on whom you ask.
“Q” can mean “questioning” or “queer,” an umbrella term itself, formerly derogatory before it was appropriated by gay activists in the 1990s. “I” is for “intersex,” someone whose anatomy is not exclusively male or female. And “A” stands for “ally” (a friend of the cause) or “asexual,” characterized by the absence of sexual attraction.
It may be a mouthful, but it’s catching on, especially on liberal-arts campuses.
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lol.....sounds about right.
Soon to be added: the “P” for oppressed NAMBLA “second-class citizens.”
Libtards have created this alphabet-soup, balkanized “normal”.
All they want to do is pigeonhole, label, divide, balkanize, into groups that they can then pit against each other as they use the dialectic to get their goals accomplished while fooling most to think that they’re actually making the choices, and deflect any groups’ anger onto other “problem” groups and not themselves.
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I’ve got one for them: PERV, short for “pervert”.
The idiot writer does not know the difference between an abbreviation and an acronym.
Oh, isn’t it exciting, the way today’s youth “define” themselves! And it’s our responsibility to keep up! /s
Why don’t they just call themselves Perverted Unnatural Lumps of Flesh and get the hell out of my face.
They can't do any better than "You are what you hump." ?
You can't get much shallower than that without goiong 2D.
I just call them “SC’s” for sexually confused.
“Anyone who’s universe revolves around their gonads is broken and unbalanced.”
you aren’t talking about the average adolescent male are you?
Lets see... Add a P for the polygamists...
And a Z for the zooist.
Good point. Fortunately, that passes.
Well, since gay and lesbian are so ‘maintstream’ in their young eyes, there has to be SOMETHING they can do to shock their parents./s
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