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excessively long acronyms - 8/28/2009 3:19:30 PM   
subbisherri


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I received an email funding solicitation from my (not yet completed) alma mater for Camp Fyrefly. Now I don't have an issue with what the Camp does, or their requests for funding, but the acronym they have is: LGBTTQI&A.

I challenge ANYONE to try to figure out what the heck that is (they did give the long version, but I really wanna know if anyone out there can grok it).

Maybe we can revert to first principles: straight and other?

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RE: excessively long acronyms - 8/28/2009 3:43:45 PM   
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While I am not sure that I "grok" as Micahel Valentine Smith might, I would definatly disagree with the categories "straight" and "other."

I think that this list sound rather inclusive.  The problem with "other" is its "otherness."  "Other" is not a good place to be.  You might check out some of the stuff written about it.  The Second Sex springs to mind for some reason. 

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RE: excessively long acronyms - 8/28/2009 3:50:08 PM   
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RE: excessively long acronyms - 8/28/2009 3:53:11 PM   
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While accuracy in descriptors is important, I think that some people take it rather far and the P.C.-everything movement is tiresome.  
Davan


  I still do not like the use of "other" as a descriptor.  So there!  Nahhh!

Maybe straight and non-straight. 

But. . . the problem comes in that some of those terms are genetic references and some are not. 

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RE: excessively long acronyms - 8/28/2009 4:06:42 PM   
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ORIGINAL: subbisherri

This might not be posted in the right place, but I couldn't figure anywhere else...

I received an email funding solicitation from my (not yet completed) alma mater for Camp Fyrefly. Now I don't have an issue with what the Camp does, or their requests for funding, but the acronym they have is: LGBTTQI&A.

I challenge ANYONE to try to figure out what the heck that is (they did give the long version, but I really wanna know if anyone out there can grok it).

Maybe we can revert to first principles: straight and other?

ss

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RE: excessively long acronyms - 8/28/2009 8:32:13 PM   
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Maybe we can revert to first principles: straight and other?


Those work great for me. Tells me all I need to know.




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RE: excessively long acronyms - 8/28/2009 9:06:20 PM   
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LGBTTQI&A.


Maybe we can revert to first principles: straight and other?

ss


No, I am not "other",  and forcing LGBTTA people to all assure ONE label, would be like asking ALL s-types to be called slave. I am not a slave to anyone but the one who owns me. And I wont be referred to as such by anyone else. And I am not straight, I am not gay either. I am Bi-sexual.

Nothing is black and white, I'm sure not.


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RE: excessively long acronyms - 8/28/2009 9:16:38 PM   
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I will eat your acronyms for lunch, breakfast, but not dinner for I need a large diet of labels.

I swear I am not a logophage. This nonsense of which you speak.

*swats*

It is fine if one is discovering how one is orientated. Other than that... I think I have found myself. You?


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RE: excessively long acronyms - 8/28/2009 9:18:13 PM   
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Can you grok out what it means?

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RE: excessively long acronyms - 8/28/2009 9:57:03 PM   
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ORIGINAL: subbisherri
LGBTTQI&A


My guess is
Lesbian
Gay
Bi
Trans-g
Trans-s
Queer
Intersexed
Asexual

Not sure about the A.



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RE: excessively long acronyms - 8/28/2009 10:07:13 PM   
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RE: excessively long acronyms - 8/28/2009 10:22:10 PM   
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RE: excessively long acronyms - 8/29/2009 4:58:51 AM   
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ORIGINAL: Sunnyfey
DomImus, pretty sure the A is for A-sexual (I'm about 98% sure on that)


It's for "Allies". I Googled to check my guess.


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RE: excessively long acronyms - 8/29/2009 5:45:01 AM   
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Status: offline 		because im being especially slow today i had a problem working out what the thread was about, never mind the long list of letters  now that i have worked it out -, yeah, im with the FFS crowd, for what its worth

to be honest, it wasnt that long ago that i worked out some very very simple ones, like IMO  - its true! (in my defence i didnt really apply myself to most of them ). 

my dyslexic brain wants to add in little words and does and i never can work them out easily.  so i tend to just ignore them.

.............................so im not even gonna try Steels acronym

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RE: excessively long acronyms - 8/29/2009 7:50:20 AM   
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RE: excessively long acronyms - 8/29/2009 8:00:49 AM   
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grok is a word?


From the book Stranger in a Strange Land. :)

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RE: excessively long acronyms - 8/29/2009 8:29:09 AM   
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RE: excessively long acronyms - 8/29/2009 8:48:48 AM   
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RE: excessively long acronyms - 8/29/2009 11:47:46 AM   
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RE: excessively long acronyms - 8/29/2009 11:49:31 AM   
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