Manipulative uses of the initialism LGBTQ+ and the term "queer."

Sometimes there isn't much Gay or there isn't any Gay or Lesbian when they use the terms "LGBTQ+" or "queer."

Aug 09, 2024

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When the opposition invents the vocabulary and you use it, you have already lost.

What might be a legitimate use of the initialism LGBTQ+?

I don’t approve of the term “queer” and I think it is academic elitism without considering the feelings of the community and people cosplaying radicalism. So I am going to discuss LGBTQ+ only instead. Queer is functionally used the same way as LGBTQ+ is misused, excepting the use of “queer” is only equivalnt to when LGBTQ+ is misused.

Queer is a favorite of those who want to cosplay being radical or avant guarde https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosplay

I also think that LGBTQ+ is based on assimilationist thinking that the identities of these different groups are just activities in the bedroom and otherwise these groups have as their primary difference, just not being straight and facing hostile groups. However, I don’t want to go into that here. I want to focus on one common misuse of the initialism LGBTQ+.

I do come across institutions in the Dallas - Fort Worth area that are actually anti-LGBTQ+. They are against all the letters in the LGBTQ+. They wish our annihilation. There are movements and groups and religions that are hostile to every single deviation from their ideas of what is moral in terms of sexuality.

In some cases they are anti-LGBTQ+ for as how many letters you might assign to the “+.” In this case it is appropriate to say anti-LGBTQ+. Against such enemies we would want an alliance of the L, G, B, T, Q and whatever the “+” might be. With these enemies we need to all pull together.

I am not a member of the LGBTQ+ movement, I am a member of the Gay movement, but I see that there can be strategic alliances of the different letters on specific issues. So I am more a L/G/B/T/Q/+ person. (If you can think of a better way of representing it, I am interested.)

I see seperate groups coming together on specific issues, but I also see that there can be times the letters don’t all have an interest in a specific issue or they can even be antagonistic on an issue. To try to sweep this under the rug causes it to fester and be a problem.

The problem of using LGBTQ+ instead of some term that isn’t an initialism, using it when it is legitimate, enables it to be misused.

The law of the ideological jungle is define or be defined.

Misuse of LGBTQ+

To represent an issue that is just the particular issue of just one group in the initialism as being that of the whole initialism.

Two current frequent misuses of LGBTQ+ are: (1) to say opposition to so-called gender affirming care, surgeries on minors amputating parts of their bodies and prescribing puberty blockers; (2) opposition to men competing in women’s sports, on the basis that they have decided they are women, are anti-LGBTQ+.

They are just opposed to a certain trans extermism that isn’t believed in by many trans.

It is in opposition to the hegemony, the domination, that the LGBTQXYZ establishment and the “Queer” studies groups have established to force a away of thinking and conceptualizing the various communities, the individual letters of the initialism. So the Alphabet Soup, the LGBTQXYZ, imagine that what is against them, their ideological domination, is actually against all the letters of the intialism, because they have developed ideologies in which there aren’t really individual characteristics of the individual letters except what they see are technical differences.

To think within the opposition’s frame work is to preclude many paths to victory and confine yourself to attempt to get through a narrow fortified pass.

Bullying to push the LGBTQ+ terminology.

A lot of the forcing of all the LGBTQ+ behind certain ideologies of a certain fraction of the LGBTQXYZ, Alphabet Soup ideologues involves threats and bullying.

“After they get the T, they are going to come after you.”

Some of these groups are going to go after all the letters in the initialism. However, there is an implied assertion that trans rights as imagined by the LGBTQXYZ is some type of firewall. The reality is that it is dragging down the rights of the L, G, B, and even the rights of trans.

Also, it is dishonest. If something is wrong or right, it is wrong or rights on its own merits rationally discussed. The LGBTQXYZ attempt to use fear mongering to override discussion and dissent. In this they are also bullies.

It is also bullying in that by rejecting it, you are against the other letters. You might be in support of the other letters, but not on terms unilaterally dictated and forced upon you. You aren’t transphobic because you oppose a certain ideological faction of trans people and their handlers, nor are you anti-LGBTQ+.

The use of LGBTQ+ often isn’t really about the rights of the L, G, B, T, Q, or “X.

The use of the terminology LGBTQ+ is actually not about the rights of the individual letters, it is about maintaining the dominance of the LGBTQXYZ establishment.

LGB without the T is also wrong.

I see it as being reflexive thinking in response to the LGBTQXYZ hegemony. There will always be trans people about in the spaces Gay people have and at events. Lesbians, Gays and Bisexuals will have enemies in common with the trans. What needs to be done is to not exclude and become seperating in attitudes, it is to not have unilaterialism where one letter dictates to another and to understand that the individual letters have specific individual differences and agendas.

The whole idea of LGB leads to LGBT as surely as sunset follows sunrise. There is no rational reason that the initialism should be restricted to any single letter in the sequence. You force team two letters together, you can force team 14 letters, which they have done so far.

Also, any intialism is about pushing an agenda of assimilationism, that these different letters have trivial differences of activities in the bedroom so they can be just mashed together.