• empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    20 hours ago

    Yeah tbh. And it aligns better with the concept of sexuality/gender being more of a spectrum than rigidly designated buckets.

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              12 hours ago

              God’s rainbow has 7 colors (ROY G BIV), the LGBT rainbow has 6. Guy doesn’t even know rainbows.

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              19 hours ago

              Ironically Bryan doesn’t even understand the Bible, as God in the very Bible is described with not just masculine but also feminine and neutral attributes.

              They for example are described as being beyond humankind, yet the latter proceeding forth from them. Guy, gal, all proceeding forth from God; in other words, God isn’t a man, woman, but beyond either.

              It’s ragebait that he posts and either he knows what he’s doing (likely), or he’s just that dumb/hateful (also likely).


              The Bible itself is also pretty contradictionary. For example. God punishes slavery, by releasing the refugees from Egyptian servantry; yet he rewards Adam for snitching on Eve, and makes Eve a slave to him.

              The closest analogy to the fictional God is a power-tripping CEO like that of United Health.

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        20 hours ago

        It… is kind of a giant mess.

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_flag_(LGBTQ) is a good summary but the modern rainbow color scheme is a somewhat recent iteration.

        But much as “LGBT” has become “LGBTQ” and “LGBTQIA” and “LGBTQIA+” and so forth, so too have the flag added and removed stripes. And… a lot of that is intentional animosity since a shocking number of LGBTQIA+ folk are actually REALLY bigoted (the old “jokes” about how bisexual people need to “choose a side” and so forth) and it becomes a whole thing.

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          19 hours ago

          I love the intersex-inclusive progress pride flag, which adds designs to the left that explicitly include three under-represented groups (BIPOC, trans+, and intersex).

          I once had someone, in earnest, complain at me that if we kept adding chevrons, the flag would have to get wider, and showed me an image that was like 1000 pixels by 20.

          And then got mad at me when I asked if I could have that as a scarf :)

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            19 hours ago

            Personally, the way I view it, the rainbow is most flexible, as it literally includes everyone (queer and nonqueer), and the progress pride (as in, pride + triangle with whatever is in there) mostly functions as an acknowledgement of especially repressed groups.

            View it like how countries have their national days, or how there are weeks of reading focused on a particular theme or subject (school homework included). That, but for queer stuff.

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              18 hours ago

              The initialism, “LGBTQIA+”, feels disrespectful too. First because of everyone who falls under the “+” not being as important apparently, but second because it’s just a silly sounding name.

              I’ve heard “Sexual and gender minorities” or “SGM” as a more academic and professional sounding replacement, and I much prefer it.

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                After a while, the acronym just gets too long, especially when you have people complain that their particular group isn’t “properly” represented because their letter isn’t actually included in the acronym other than the “+” and it reminds me of that rap group OFWGKTA with all their ridiculous letters.

                I do agree with the “SGM” abbreviation when referring to all groups under the LGBT+ acronym.

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          19 hours ago

          I haven’t really heard of those jokes and animosity. We’re not letting ourselves get divided, though.

          Comrade, remember that the fight is not with other queers, but with those who repress everyone; the oligarchs.