our bad example
4 April 2021 12:07![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
m_d_hWe LGBTQIA+ started this mess, instead of sticking with a one-word description for non-heterosexuals like "queer" (or "non-heterosexuals") we had to give each member of the sexual minorities their own letter in a concatenation of letters and then stick a "+" on the end just in case we left you out.
So now BIPOC and AAPI are joining the concatenation party, because we have to give each member of the racial minorities their own letter. The word "colored" fell out of fashion long ago, and now the strangely-less-offensive term "people of color" is falling behind as well. I'm waiting for somebody to be the first to squish these two racial minority concatenations together --> BIPOCAAPI+.
There are not enough letters in the Roman alphabet to describe all of us! There are hundreds of ethnic groups! Someday there will be a backlash, as the future teenage kids of today's woke liberals speak truth to power about how ridiculous this alphabetizing became.
Don't lump the first letter of my identity in with a bunch of other first letters in this way, presuming that I have anything in common with them. There ain't even an "N" for nonbinary in the LGBTQIA+ list and I'm OK with that. A letter in a string of letters is not "visibility", damn it. Living my life in front of other people is visibility. And that's my responsibility, not yours.
So now BIPOC and AAPI are joining the concatenation party, because we have to give each member of the racial minorities their own letter. The word "colored" fell out of fashion long ago, and now the strangely-less-offensive term "people of color" is falling behind as well. I'm waiting for somebody to be the first to squish these two racial minority concatenations together --> BIPOCAAPI+.
There are not enough letters in the Roman alphabet to describe all of us! There are hundreds of ethnic groups! Someday there will be a backlash, as the future teenage kids of today's woke liberals speak truth to power about how ridiculous this alphabetizing became.
Don't lump the first letter of my identity in with a bunch of other first letters in this way, presuming that I have anything in common with them. There ain't even an "N" for nonbinary in the LGBTQIA+ list and I'm OK with that. A letter in a string of letters is not "visibility", damn it. Living my life in front of other people is visibility. And that's my responsibility, not yours.