More Americans Are Identifying As LGBT

[Munch]

LGBTQPAI just seems like a jumbled mess of meaning now, I'd sooner someone make a new word for it instead just adding another sexual status every few years. Give it another ten years and it'll be something like LGBTQPAIHJODCVYWQXMUR.

[Shiranu]

It's really just LGBT+ in all the "elitest, liberal intelligentsia" circles I have seen.

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LGBTQPAI just seems like a jumbled mess of meaning now, I'd sooner someone make a new word for it instead just adding another sexual status every few years. Give it another ten years and it'll be something like LGBTQPAIHJODCVYWQXMUR.

I tend to just prefer queer for similar reasons. If you care enough about someone to dig more into the specifics, the over-specialized labels won't matter. Besides, if we can't keep track of all those letters, how can we expect anyone else to? Even I don't know what the 'AI' part means.

[Munch]

I tend to just prefer queer for similar reasons. If you care enough about someone to dig more into the specifics, the over-specialized labels won't matter. Besides, if we can't keep track of all those letters, how can we expect anyone else to? Even I don't know what the 'AI' part means.

Asexual and intersexual.. whatever intersexual means. Whatever new special snowflake invents for their 'unique' sexual status and buzzfeed coins it.

[Shiranu]

Asexual and intersexual.. whatever intersexual means. Whatever new special snowflake invents for their 'unique' sexual status and buzzfeed coins it.

And gays aren't special snowflakes who invented their own orientation? After all, I don't understand how someone can be gay, so they must just be doing it for attention.

I'm hoping your post was a bit of self depreciating humor, but the internet conveys it very poorly.

[Mermaid]

Asexual and intersexual.. whatever intersexual means. Whatever new special snowflake invents for their 'unique' sexual status and buzzfeed coins it.

Um. Isn't intersex another word for hermaphroditism?

[Mermaid]

Proclaiming being LGBTQP is a status symbol now?
Is there a reward for it?

Just asking.

REALLY!??

[Hydra009]

REALLY!??

Yep.  Being gay is a status symbol now.

Just last week I tried to show up the neighbors by proudly displaying my 4k smartphone (4k is both the resolution and price in british sterling)

He showed off his yacht, which he hauls around in a cargo transport (he doesn't want to harm its value by getting it wet)

My retort:  "Oh yeah, well I did five guys at Five Guys!"

Boom, instant praise and adoration from every American, including the huge chunk of America that up until recently was zealously opposed to gay marriage to the point of seriously arguing that natural disasters were the result of gay people hooking up. 

Well, they've all changed their tune.  It used to be that smoking cigarettes made you look cool.  Now it's smoking sausages.

[FaithIsFilth]

No. An old regular is cherishing his newly found homosexuality and he is posting about how LGBTQP people are getting more comfortable about identifying themselves every day.

Wait... Ps are in the fam now? 

Kidding. I assume that is for pan. Just gave me a chuckle because the alt right has been calling it lgbtqp for a while now.

[Munch]

And gays aren't special snowflakes who invented their own orientation? After all, I don't understand how someone can be gay, so they must just be doing it for attention.

I'm hoping your post was a bit of self depreciating humor, but the internet conveys it very poorly.

Seems like so many want their own uniqueness to their own, personalized sexual identify.

Let's not even get started on 'otherkin'

[The Skeletal Atheist]

The fear is melting away, but even now, we both know certain lines cannot be crossed. For some of us, being too open will still cost us our families.

Unfortunately. I count myself very lucky that my family accepted me.

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Just had one of those nature versus nurture debates over this exact topic. Incredible the leaps people will go to in God's name.

I have to admit I am curious. How much is nature and how much is nurture? Just wanting whatever your opinion is. Nothing you say about this is going to offend me.

[Mike Cl]

I have to admit I am curious. How much is nature and how much is nurture? Just wanting whatever your opinion is. Nothing you say about this is going to offend me.

How can it be anything but nature. 

[Shiranu]

How can it be anything but nature. 

Eh, what we find attractive is largely nurture, so I am sure there is room for it in sexuality as well.

[PickelledEggs]

Seems like so many want their own uniqueness to their own, personalized sexual identify.

Let's not even get started on 'otherkin'

That graph makes me cringe