What do you feel has gotten out of hand?
Post your answer in the LEAVE A COMMENT section below. I’m not the boss of you, though. Don’t write anything for all I care! But I think your thoughts should flow from your mind, out your hands, onto the Internet.
. . .here are my thoughts.
What do you feel has gotten out of hand?
Remember when you first encountered the term LGB and had to look up what it stood for? When the acronym expanded to LGBTQ+, we thought the + was a great idea so we wouldn’t eventually have to say all 26 letters of the alphabet. But then IA got slipped right in there to make it LGBTQIA+. That certainly had to spell the end of the expansion. Well … maybe not. I recently came across LGBTQQIP2SAA: lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, intersex, pansexual, two-spirit (2S), asexual, and androgynous. That’s a rather inclusive list! What began as a means to promote societal inclusivity and recognition of a minority group of people, now verges on encompassing a majority. That doesn’t worry me, though. The order of the letters (and number) does! The alphanumerics are in the order they were added to the acronym, and thus—some might argue—their importance. Instead of being an inclusive group, will the L’s and G’s look down upon all those lowly Q’s? Might P’s look down upon the 2S’s? All A’s will agree they’re superior to Alcoholics Anonymous, but undoubtedly argue over which is the loftier A.