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Whoever down voted this has no sense of humor.

That last one is incredible!

This made me laugh.

… is the bread fried or the spaghetti?

I have to agree to disagree.

I often do find myself more likely to talk about gender specific issues when I know that the space I’m in will make an effort to exclude those people who don’t understand that some topics aren’t for them. I have seen, time and again, how any topic focusing on the issues of a specific gender will bring out hordes of people to scream about how this exclusion is somehow evil or wrong just because it excludes them.

Gender specific conversations draw out trolls like nothing else.

I absolutely haven’t heard anyone infighting about this thing I’m hearing about for the first time, and also am referencing other times we added things and people engaged in infighting, since last behavior can often help predict future.

I take issue with putting a specific group first, intentionally, and can tell you (now that I’ve had a day) that the first indigenous person I asked about it said that it was “bullshit” because it feels “placating” to persons historically unrepresented and oppressed. Which does support my concern even if n=1.

For clarity, he is neither cisgender, nor heteronormative in any fashion.

I specifically referenced an incident but there were others. Did you finish reading that sentence?

Adding is absolutely not the issue here. I think I was pretty clear on that. There is room for everyone in our world.

It’s the intentional effort to put one group before all others, especially when that group has been vastly under-supported, historically.

I don’t like the idea of expanding the acronym to intentionally place someone “first.”

Everyone has an equal place at the table and this feels like a great way to start the kind of stupid infighting that I’ve found exhausting since I first heard a man claim that he didn’t have an interest in a community that spent any time and energy fighting for anything but his needs. At a Pride parade in the late nineties ffs.

Additionally, it feels hollow in the same way that corporate pride feels. “You haven’t been represented appropriately in this community up until now, but look! You’re first!”

If it weren’t for the two fingers I would have never known. This is gorgeous.

@Chetzemoka

I came here to say essentially the same thing. It’s hillbilly code-switching; if you speak without an accent most of the time, but then meet someone who speaks that way, you can put the accent “back on” again and immediately gain a massive boost to your charisma stat when you need it.

I do it all the time at work. No accent until I’m providing care for someone with a southern accent, then bam! “Well, ah doan know whai inneewon wooden lissen to me!”