Post #764616

I’ve recently seen the acronym “LGBTI” be increasingly used instead of “LGBTQ” or “LGBTQIA” and it really annoys me because specifically taking the Q and the A out of the acronym is feeling weirdly personally directed at people like me, an aroace person. And also because aphobia and having an issue with the term “queer” are both sentiments that are not just extremely harmful on their own, they also have huge overlap with TERFism, and are often gateways to TERFism. I’ve also seen all the authoritarian commie orgas suddenly start using it when they suddenly decided they wanted to pretend to care about queer issues (which they are bad at), so when i hear it I will immediately suspect some relation to those weird cultish groups. Those are the same people who will in other situations insist on talking about women when talking about things that affect people of marginalized genders generally, in situations where it’s completely normalized here to use the FLINTA* acronym instead. So in that light, the association with TERFism doesn’t feel that far fetched… and it infuriates me when those hypocrites say things about “LGBTI” in an attempt to seem more queer-friendly than they are, in order to recruit people to be exploited. Idk it just really rubs me the wrong way.