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Tragedeigh: shitty baby names @lemmy.blahaj.zone

hungryphrog @lemmy.blahaj.zone

3w ago

It's a tragedeigh

Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world

It's a tragedeigh

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I can't surely keep track. I get lost after the Q.
- 2SLGBTQIANBP+ or LGBTQIANB2SP+
  Two Spirit
  Lesbian
  Gay
  Bisexual
  Transgender
  Queer/Questioning
  Intersex
  Asexual/Aromantic/Agender (never for allies)
  Nonbinary
  Pansexual/Polyamorous
  Plus (for other identities)
  
  No way in my fucking life I'll be able to remember all of that. I'll need a cheat sheet.
  $ cat /dev/random
  
  I guess it's pretty discriminating that some orientations get more letters than others, one even is allowed to have a number and potentially many more have to share just one single +. Why not use only the + for everyone? ♥️
  
  Yeah, that's why people should just settle for queer.

How is bryightnleigh supposed to be pronounced? Briton-Lee?

White people have some really bad names. Only a white woman would name her kid khaleesi.
Guy I know worked ers. Kid named Nosmo. The mother looked up, saw the no smoking sign, said that sounds good.
As far as names go it's better than the white ones lmao.
- [Sincere] Apart from it being a reference and sounding appropriative in some ways what's wrong with Khaleesi?
  
  Isn't it like calling your kid Quigon, because you watched a lot of Star Wars?
- If her last name is King, that's genius
  
  I think this exact string was a plot point in Ramona and her father by Beverly Cleary. Ramona intended to create a "NO SMOKING" sign, but paper dimension limitations caused the sign to read "NOSMO KING".
- It's fairly common for parents to name their children based on the day they were born, like naming them after the saint that day represents.
  I met a guy who's name was the equivalent to "nat-hol" because he was born on the local national holiday and that's what it showed on the calendar for that day.
  
  These people are naming children like animals.

To be fair lgb and lgb+ was a lot easier. Its practically doubled over time. Is the Q even needed? I thought queer was a slur.
- It's lgbt, not lgb. And queer is a reclaimed slur.
  
  gotta realize I have experience going back to the 70's. I could be wrong but I swear it was lgb at one point.
- I looked it up and the Q can stand for "queer" or "questioning". I've always assumed it was the second for the exact reason you mentioned. It has been, at least in part, reclaimed, although it probably differs from group to group.

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