What the hell?“They can have a gay flag or they can have a parade but we can’t have a shirt?” Yan Miller said.
Yeah, because "gay flags" and "gay parades" involve death threats.
Labeling someone isn't really the same as not tolerating them. :/
Oh, labels are great. I have no problem with using a sequence of sound compression and rarefaction waves to symbolize a concept. "Special snowflake" isn't
just a label, though. It's disapproving. It's...
I mean, I use it more for people who are all 'I was a unicorn in a previous life' or some shit like that.
Ohh. You mean people who seriously say "I sexually identify as an Apache helicopter"? Yeah, carry on, that's just obnoxious.
I'm not going to talk to them like that, but special snowflake is useful shorthand for 'people who either knowingly or unknowingly have come up with some unnecessary reason to explain why they're unique and different from all the other seven billion unique and different people in the world and therefore why people should give them lots and lots of attention'.
I've heard it used to refer to anybody who doesn't exactly fall on the Masculine-Feminine spectrum, including things like genderfluid, which is why I wanted to avoid its use. (I may or may not be genderfluid, but that wouldn't affect my decision anyway.) But if people can restrict its use to the ridiculous ones like
Angeligender– A gender found only among angels, that is hard to describe to non-angels. For godkin and angelkin only.
and
Genderflora– A gender that blooms and evolves based on the weather and atmosphere; similar to genderfluid but more plant-like.
and not
Ambonec– Identifying as both man and woman, yet neither at the same time.
Because sometimes people try to explain how they feel and it just sounds like deepity and it makes no sense and insulting them for that is
just not okay, that's why. Basically err on the side of
not labeling someone's sincere feelings as fake or intentionally obnoxious.
But really I can't imagine this being much of a problem with people here, so *still tilting at windmills*
Just like I use 'queer' as shorthand for 'whatever else I didn't cover in the first four letters cuz fuck making this acronym any longer for the purpose of further splitting the LGBTQ community into subfactions'
Well, that's different - queer doesn't carry a negative connotation.
But we all know that the Ork is the best LGBT subfaction.
Omnisexual? Or do you mean that Ork is literally a sexuality or gender?