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Jorge · **Posted:** Tue October 19, 2021 5:47 pm

It was an Extreme decade

JuanHamm · **Joined:** Wed May 30, 2018 6:10 pm **Posts:** 6950

What is the IA+ part of the acronym? That's new to me.

BurtReynolds · **Posted:** Tue October 19, 2021 5:52 pm

When you follow the tenets of the faith to their logical conclusion, it disintegrates.

tree_ · **Posted:** Tue October 19, 2021 5:54 pm

They must be leaving someone out of that acronym.

BurtReynolds · **Posted:** Tue October 19, 2021 5:55 pm

I can't ever see the 90s aesthetic making a comeback like the 80s did. It's just aggressively unappealing. Who knows though.

Jorge · **Posted:** Tue October 19, 2021 5:55 pm

JuanHamm wrote:

What is the IA+ part of the acronym? That's new to me.

I is intersex, and A is asexual (which is actually a highly contentious inclusion within the community)

Jorge · **Posted:** Tue October 19, 2021 5:56 pm

Jorge wrote:

I is intersex

Don't put this in the Out of Context thread

tragabigzanda · **Posted:** Tue October 19, 2021 5:57 pm

Jorge wrote:

JuanHamm wrote:

What is the IA+ part of the acronym? That's new to me.

A is asexual (which is actually a highly contentious inclusion within the community)

Why is this contentious?

McParadigm · **Joined:** Wed January 02, 2013 1:56 am **Posts:** 21821

BurtReynolds wrote:

I can't ever see the 90s aesthetic making a comeback like the 80s did. It's just aggressively unappealing. Who knows though.

The jeans alone should be enough to keep us from ever going back.

Bi_3 · **Joined:** Wed April 20, 2016 7:11 pm **Posts:** 14224

tree_ wrote:

They must be leaving someone out of that acronym.

And yes, they left out the two spirit folks

JuanHamm · **Joined:** Wed May 30, 2018 6:10 pm **Posts:** 6950

Bi_3 wrote:

tree_ wrote:

They must be leaving someone out of that acronym.

And yes, they left out the two spirit folks

Wait, what's the 2?

surfndestroy · **Joined:** Wed January 02, 2013 2:21 am **Posts:** 2870

JuanHamm wrote:

Bi_3 wrote:

tree_ wrote:

They must be leaving someone out of that acronym.

And yes, they left out the two spirit folks

Wait, what's the 2?

Two-Spirit (also two spirit or, occasionally, twospirited) is a modern, pan-Indian, umbrella term used by some Indigenous North Americans to describe Native people in their communities who fulfill a traditional third-gender (or other gender-variant) ceremonial and social role in their cultures

B · **Posted:** Tue October 19, 2021 7:22 pm

Another case in which simple would have saved the day.

"I will never apologize for standing up for kids' rights to not have to undergo conversion therapy."

BurtReynolds · **Posted:** Wed October 20, 2021 9:55 pm

4/5 · **Joined:** Thu December 20, 2012 4:45 pm **Posts:** 6648

I feel dirty contributing to this thread, but apparently "mothers" are cancelled. They're now "human milk-feeding individuals" although "lactating person" is "appropriate in many settings."

https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/pdf/10.1 ... .29188.abm

spike · **Joined:** Wed January 02, 2013 4:18 am **Posts:** 28101

It also says sometimes sex specific terms (like mother) are appropriate. Just working to be inclusionary, nothing being canceled.

Green Habit · **Joined:** Wed December 12, 2012 10:33 pm **Posts:** 6932

4/5 wrote:

I feel dirty contributing to this thread, but apparently "mothers" are cancelled. They're now "human milk-feeding individuals" although "lactating person" is "appropriate in many settings."

https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/pdf/10.1 ... .29188.abm

At least they're not going with birthing person--I recently listened to a rant from one of my relatives who adopted her daughter on how offensive that term was to her.

But good god, four words and ten syllables is an abomination to the English language. With the birthing person thing I was going to joke that they could just cut that in half by going with birthers, but, y'know, that word already got taken for something else....

4/5 · **Joined:** Thu December 20, 2012 4:45 pm **Posts:** 6648

spike wrote:

It also says sometimes sex specific terms (like mother) are appropriate. Just working to be inclusionary, nothing being canceled.

That's fair. I saw that and it just made me laugh that calling a mother a mother is "appropriate in many settings."

Bi_3 · **Joined:** Wed April 20, 2016 7:11 pm **Posts:** 14224

I’ve noticed a couple places in the hivemind (Twitter/Reddit) that “gestation” has replaced “pregnancy” when discussing the bonkers Texas abortion law. I bet that rebrand is coming elsewhere soon.

Green Habit · **Joined:** Wed December 12, 2012 10:33 pm **Posts:** 6932

Bi_3 wrote:

I’ve noticed a couple places in the hivemind (Twitter/Reddit) that “gestation” has replaced “pregnancy” when discussing the bonkers Texas abortion law. I bet that rebrand is coming elsewhere soon.

What's the idea behind that?

Post here when something gets CANCELLED

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