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

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



Aylee -> RE: excessively long acronyms (8/28/2009 3:43:45 PM)

lesbian
gay
bisexual
trans-identified
Two-Spirit
queer
intersex
& 
allied

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.  [8|]



DavanKael -> RE: excessively long acronyms (8/28/2009 3:50:08 PM)

While accuracy in descriptors is important, I think that some people take it rather far and the P.C.-everything movement is tiresome.  
  Davan



Aylee -> RE: excessively long acronyms (8/28/2009 3:53:11 PM)

quote:

ORIGINAL: DavanKael

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. 



Toppingfrmbottom -> RE: excessively long acronyms (8/28/2009 4:06:42 PM)

I assume it's leather gay bisexual transgender no idea about the T Q could be queer, and no idea about the rest.
quote:

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



DomImus -> RE: excessively long acronyms (8/28/2009 8:32:13 PM)

quote:

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


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





Sunnyfey -> RE: excessively long acronyms (8/28/2009 9:06:20 PM)

quote:

ORIGINAL: subbisherri

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.



pyroaquatic -> RE: excessively long acronyms (8/28/2009 9:16:38 PM)

HELLO. I am Pyroaquatic.

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?



SteelofUtah -> RE: excessively long acronyms (8/28/2009 9:18:13 PM)

Those who know me know about this one.

KWYADACTGDB

Pronounced (Qui-Add-Act-Gee-Dub)

I got tired of the SSC and RACK and SACK

I got tired of anything that sounded good on a T-Shirt. or Could be Chanted by Newbs.

Can you grok out what it means?

Steel



DomImus -> RE: excessively long acronyms (8/28/2009 9:57:03 PM)

quote:

ORIGINAL: subbisherri
LGBTTQI&A


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

Not sure about the A.




Sunnyfey -> RE: excessively long acronyms (8/28/2009 10:07:13 PM)

DomImus, pretty sure the A is for A-sexual (I'm about 98% sure on that)



pompeii -> RE: excessively long acronyms (8/28/2009 10:22:10 PM)

My favorite long acronym is BBBJTCIMWS ... 



DomImus -> RE: excessively long acronyms (8/29/2009 4:58:51 AM)

quote:

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.



lally2 -> RE: excessively long acronyms (8/29/2009 5:45:01 AM)

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 [&o] - 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 [:D]



peachgirl -> RE: excessively long acronyms (8/29/2009 7:50:20 AM)

grok is a word?



BitaTruble -> RE: excessively long acronyms (8/29/2009 8:00:49 AM)


quote:

ORIGINAL: peachgirl

grok is a word?


From the book Stranger in a Strange Land. :)



peachgirl -> RE: excessively long acronyms (8/29/2009 8:29:09 AM)

thanks, Bita.



gentlemanprince -> RE: excessively long acronyms (8/29/2009 8:48:48 AM)

If I can't easily decipher the acronym, I don't give money.



CalifChick -> RE: excessively long acronyms (8/29/2009 11:47:46 AM)

Instead of "straight" and "other"... why not "non-straight" and "other"?

Cali



stella41b -> RE: excessively long acronyms (8/29/2009 11:49:31 AM)

As much as I dislike PC, I dislike social exclusion and stigmatizing people even more.

Sometimes i feel like walking round with a list of ingredients and an instruction manual.



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