News that I missed, courtesy of The Babylon Bee:
U.S.—Researchers working at Portland University’s prestigious School for Inclusion and Justice for 2SLGBTQQIA++ Persons estimate that the acronym for the LGBTQ+ community could wrap around the earth three times by the year 2022.
“At the current rate of expansion, we could see the 2SLGBTQQIAA++ community’s acronym wrap around the equator by sometime later this year,” said the school’s head researcher, Dr. Marvin Frankfurter. “As more and more people join the ranks of the marginalized, invent new identities and genders and pronouns, we are rapidly approaching a situation where the acronym can circle the earth three times by the end of next year.”
“And we think this is a good thing. The more oppressed people there are, the better.”
Dr. Frankfurter warned, however, that Earth may not have enough space to contain the entire acronym, and we will soon have to seek out a new solar system, terraform the planets there, and create a 2SLGBTQQIAA++ alliance to unite all oppressed peoples in the ‘verse, “by force if necessary.”
Go here to read the rest. Leftism always descends into parody. Identity politics, and the grievance theater which is its essential component, thrives on manufacturing hate for political purposes. Most people are pretty tolerant personally, and if they are left alone, will usually not bother themselves with how their neighbors live their private lives. However, the essence of Leftism is that nothing is private, and that one’s private life must become an all important political cause, to be dictated to by the State and for which children must be carefully indoctrinated. If this sounds like State Tyranny, well it certainly is with the reaction to Covid being the latest manifestation of the impulse of most of the chattering classes of the West to punish all beliefs counter to the ones they hold at the moment, and which are ever shifting. This reduces life to a grotesque game of Simon Says led by malignant narcissists. I refuse to play.
Back when it was just LGBT, I liked posting the acronym as GBLT. Very easy way to get feminists mad for putting women behind men in the ordering. Even to this day it is decreed that gays must always come after lesbians.
Apparently “Two Spirit” finally managed to knock lesbians out of top position. Maybe it is a way to add racial elements to the mix (since it’s associated with the Ojibwe, though of course the racists who support these things associate it with all American Indians.) It might also be a backdoor way for the “trans” to get to the head of the list, since they are generally bigger attention seekers than the average homosexual, but “T” has been firmly established to come after “B”.
You forgot the “S.J.” at the end of that.
Remember the old days when they were just called sissies, queers, and faggots?
In my youth (60 years ago, now), in my localized MA state gov’t housing project, a specialized word (origins uncertain) was adapted and adopted among us kids to entail any and all boys who fell below the low norm measure for acceptable male behaviors. QUIFF was the word. While repugnant to think back on, I still feel it had a certain elegance.
Call me anything you want.
Just don’t call me later for dinner.
Let’s Go Brandon!