When the hell did LGBT become LGBTTIQ?

I was reading an article on how the Ontario government is debating anti-bullying legislation and came across the acronym LGBTTIQ, which apparently stands for "lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, transsexual, two-spirited, intersexed, queer and questioning".



When did this happen? I didn't get the memo.

Seriously, I'm all for equal rights but this is just getting gay beyond all belief.

I consider myself part of the PGRBFSOTSAAPB crowd.

(Pro-Gay Rights But Fucking Sick Of The Stupid Acronyms And Petty Bullshit)

What the fuck is "two-spirited"?

"BI", ain't good enough, they have to put fucking superstitious nonsense in it?

Ugh.

Dude, it's only going to keep fucking expanding until everyone who doesn't want to follow any rule at all, whether that rule by man-made or natural, comes up with their own solipsistic, selfish bullshit acronym. And not only that, everyone else will be expected -- nay, required -- to conform to it.

Soon you'll have to worry about pissing off the LGBTBOBIPC (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transsexual, But Only Because It's Politically Convenient) brigade, and if you piss them off you'll be blackballed from your profession, because the very LAST thing we want to od is anger the delusional fucking queers who think they should run everything.

Ohhh...

I'd ask who the fuck cares, but I already know. Memorizing shit like that is a demonstration of your concern for the cause, and if you don't bother, you're obviously a bigoted puritanical homophobe, probably worse than Hitler.


Fuck everyone and the bitchy, self-important litmus tests they impose on society. I have nothing to prove to anyone, and if I haven't done you wrong, you have no business demanding anything of me.

I like the acronym "QUILTBAG":
Queer, undeclared, intersex, lesbian, trans, bi, asexual, gay.

I prefer MGMT.


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Seriously, until everyone pretends to be faggots, the faggots won't be satisfied. So fuck 'em. Put a stop to it here and now, just tell 'em forthrightly, "Nope, shut the fuck up."

Of the ass?

with otters?

I have to say something that's likely not going to get me any posreps...

Here goes: This story is a classic example of how the LGBT community has completely co-opted an issue.

I've been following this story for months now. There have been several high-profile teen and pre-teen suicides in Ontario over the last year (by my count, at least a half-dozen), all related to bullying. Only one of the suicides involved a gay teen, but he happened to be the son of a connected city councillor. In response to the media hysteria, the provincial government introduced new anti-bullying legislation this year.

Now here's where it gets crazy: the Catholic School Board said it would not allow student gay support groups to call themselves "Gay-Straight Alliances" so the government actually amended the law to require school boards to recognise that specific terminology.

No shit.

You've actually got the government now controlling language through legislation.

And what started out as a sincere (but misguided) effort to address bullying has somehow morphed into an exclusively gay issue.

This whole thing is one big clusterfuck and it's impossible for me to take anyone's side in this debate because they're all fucking nuts.

The only solution, of course, is to bring on the asteroid.

With otters.

Sounds to me more like you've got the government telling the Catholic School Board to go fuck itself, something I heartily endorse.

That I have no problem with. In fact, I really wish the Ontario government would have the balls to invoke the notwithstanding clause and override the constitutional requirement for a separate school board.

My bigger concern is that government has no business -- no matter how righteous the cause -- to legislate what words and phrases are acceptable or unacceptable.

My acronym is IDGAS. I. Don't. Give. A. Shit.

My acronym is: " "

Why? Because I fucking hate acronyms. If you're too lazy to recite or type it out, fuck you and whatever silly bullshit you were trying to convey.

You know what else I hate? Those oval shaped, black and white stickers people put on their cars. The ones with a short sequence of letters that only mean something to the owner. Ooooh, so mysterious. What a clever conversation-starter. You must be a really interesting person.
FUCK YOU!

^^^ Best bumper sticker I ever saw said "Put down the fucking cell phone and DRIVE!!"

I agree with UA.

LOLOMGWTFBBQ

You know what's really sad? My speech recognition had entries for all of those that I had in my post. Think about that for a minute.

It's almost as bad as the fact that when I say "axe", it comes up as "ask".

Your speech recognition software is black?

Best I ever saw: Forget the horse, ride the cowboy.

Second best: Vegetarian. Indian word for bad hunter.

UA would have a ball in The Army. We have many acronyms that mean different things to different units. Example ATC means Air Traffic Control to me, ATC means Army Training Command to a different group of folks.

So we have manuals that actually attempt (a never ending battle) to organize and explain them.

Now factor in different branches of the military, and you have total FUBAR - bet UA knows what that means!

There was an Intellivision game called snafu, which I thought was pretty funny, considering what it stands for.

Lots of people don't know how many acronyms are kicking around. A lot of terms that were originally acronyms have become such standard usage that people just think of them as words. "Fubar" is one of them, but "radar", "scuba" and "laser" are three others. Does Uncle Albert spell those out?

How about DNA? LSD? TNT? USA? UFO? VIP? TNZ? NATO? NASA? IBM? Those are all acronyms, too.

It's really hard to avoid acronyms completely. Only the specialized ones, that are not commonly used by everyone, need to be explained.

That's no excuse to make it worse out of laziness.

Though I could see you typing in nothing but acronyms and still filling three pages with one thought.

And for the record, completely from memory:

dioxiribonucleic acid, lysergic acid diathalimide, trinitrotoluene.

Are you daring me?

Some of those are initialisms, to be precise.