Some of the coldest shallow, unfriendly, rude, attitude-people I have met were gay. No, they are not more sen-si-tive in general. I agree. It's sad but true. I mean, just look at the experiance I had with some of them on the CAROL board:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2402927/board/nest/265098562
Can't even discuss movies with them without a fight of some kind!
Anyway, lumping LG with TG is a turn-off, and only perpetuates the stigma.
Well, I too think it's a turnoff – but maybe for different reasons than you. My reason is that each group of people within that acronym are so different, that lumping them all together is very misleading – and it also builds unfair expectations for people within those groups to get along equally with the others, when maybe it doesn't come natural because they are so different from one another.
The thing is, it seems like some kind of unrealistic utopian mindset to lump them all together, because lesbians and gays are very different, buys and transgender's a very different, and then you have the queer people – who claimed to fit no group. What an average lesbian, who is traditional in every way except for who she happened to fall in love with really understand the ambiguous this of the queer or transe group. No, not really. Because there's more to the queer and trends community than just how they choose to dress – it's a state of mind. It's a state of being, and that's very different from a woman who happens to fall in love with another woman. But unfortunately, because these groups are lumped together by social justice warrior's, there's this great expectation that were all supposed to get along or think alike – when the truth is, nothing could be further from reality.
Now, I may be in the minority in thinking this – in fact, I'm almost positive I am. But it's just my personal opinion that lesbians are not the same as gays who are not the same as trans were not the same as queers. One has nothing to do with the other. I could just be feeling this way out of a sense of fear, for some reason not wanting to be associated with the "strange people" or whatever. But that's what I meant about guilt – lumping us all together lends itself to guilt and discomfort, by forcing this expectation that we all feel okay about it, when we don't.
A woman who doesn't label herself as "lesbian" who happens to fall in love with another woman, for example, is probably the more conservative and traditional of all the groups, so how are they going to relate to the radical end of the spectrum? Some do, but I know I don't. The queers and the trans people – they're the extreme end of the spectrum, and myself – I feel as alien to them as straight people often claim to feel to the entire acronym!
I wish such an acronym didn't exist; I don't like it.
Please excuse typos/funny wording; I use speech-recognition that doesn't always recognize!
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