NOT!!!! VALID

like i genuinely don't understand why people have problems with them.

because lesbians cant date men and vice versa. As simple as that. People use the excuse "don't dictate other people's sexualities/identitys" when they quite literally don't understand that if they REALLY want too they can just say "yes we're bisexual with a female preference!" Or simply say they're sapphic.

So it’s all around disgusting how this very lack of critical thinking has people treating the LGBT like a damned clown car to cram in as many nonsense labels.

The people trying to invent “more inclusive” terms for the LGBT community (GSM and then MOGAI) were also exclusionists in their own right. There was paranoia about if the term “GSM” would invite paraphiles, kinksters, and even cishet crossdressers into the community, which people (ESPECIALLY back in 2014 Tumblr) had a visceral hatred and disgust for. If someone tried to propose that a sex worker is a sexual minority, how would that conversation go over? Who counted as a sexual minority that we should care about? And that’s SO fucking fascinating to me on so many levels about how the 2014 MOGAI / GSM inclusionists weren’t nearly as inclusive as they painted themselves to be.

Sure thing, I'm going to link three articles on pansexual history and popular pansexual definitions and why they're all not only terrible but also straight up biphobic, transphobic, homophobic, and even intersexist. I'll also post a link YouTube link that also explains very well pansexualities past and why it's still very biphobic to this day. I recommend these sources because they use documented history and site reliable sources that aren't "trust me bro" in nature or rely on popular yet disproven talking points.

Article Links:

https://bipanhistory.carrd.co/#pansexual

https://aninjusticemag.com/the-history-and-troubling-present-of-the-pansexual-label-9e535e15277

https://aninjusticemag.com/definitions-of-pansexuality-to-avoid-14b950299c84

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But they're confused by people being insulted by being called a queer and say essentially that you better learn to like it bc they won't change their language to literally just not call someone a freak unless they know that person is okay with it

i won’t even get started on so many guys calling things zesty— they’re simply just being homophobic.

the girls, however, think that being included in “girls, gays, and theys 😍😜🤩” means that they aren’t stereotyping, being homophobic, part of the problem, etc.

Why is it that members of identity groups outside of the "LGBT" acronym are constantly appropriating and trying to change the meanings of the identities in the LGBT acronym? I've seen some of those people say that dudes can be lesbians, that people who don't even experience attraction of any kind are gay, that bisexuality needs to get canned from the community entirely, and that not conforming to every strict gender role makes you trans.

Even if they argue that more letters can be added to the acronym, those letters are always just extensions of the pre-existing acronym, so isn't it completely backwards to deprive the pre-existing LGBT community of their pre-existing terms?

You have your own terms already. Bisexuality would make sense, because a bisexual person can be in a gay relationship. "Asexual" and "Aromantic" have absolutely nothing to do with the word "homosexual", aka:

And this appropriation is coming from the same people who loudly insist that we need to be more inclusive and include…basically anything that doesn't follow a "normal" role in relationships or gender. I know that's an incredibly unspecific way of saying it, but I've literally seen groups add 'K' for 'kink' in the acronym and I have no idea how else to describe it. Straight people just gotta be kinky enough and they're in it too.

And for the person who wants to make gay a synonym for "queer" to make English speakers (there are gay English speakers y'know) come up with a new word for terms the LGBT community has had for decades… what is there even to gain by doing that? The new meaning of queer is "denoting or relating to a sexual or gender identity that does not correspond to established ideas of sexuality and gender, especially heterosexual norms".

Wouldn't that be the term used for the group when you include all the stuff like kink and gender nonconformity and all that? Not LGBT? And why do you feel the need to appropriate an already existing term from the LGBT community and broaden it until it matches a word we already have?