I genuinely do not understand the group acronym obsession and it sometimes even comes off as yet another way to pull us apart.

“LGBT” “FLINTA” “MOGAI”… just say Queer

like, I’m sorry but an actual word with actual phonetics one can pronounce without stumbling is infinitely better. A word that, by definition, includes everything that is not cishet! No need to add an extra letter or plus or asterisk at the end, it just works…

Just Say Queer. Just Use Queer.

@irisnk til: straight cis women are queer

What also annoys me is, when ppl say "FLINTA" half of the time they rlly mean "women and fem aligned creatures only" and are implicitly exclusionary of trans men and anyone else masc aligned who still fits into the acronym.
Which would be fine, but when you use FLINTA while actually meaning to exclude masc queers who the acronym does apply to, then ur just kinda erasing them. It rlly annoys me for example how ppl often implicitly only mean "trans women" when they say "trans people", and this is part of that kinda problem.

There is also other issues with these acronyms, like how FLINTA treats lesbian as a gender identity seperate from woman for some reason, when for the majority of folks it is not, and also how MOGAI unintentially includes all women even though, unlike FLINTA, that is not the intention behind the acronym.

LGBT I do find kind of useful, as a political descriptor. To me, if you have a queer identity, and are not explicitly and vehemently for queer rights, you might as well just be LGBT. You know, ppl who think neopronouns "make the community look bad" or whatever. Liberals.
If you are like that, you don't actually care abt ur fellow queers, and it fit's the vibes more to refer to you with this corporate, sanitized, exclusionary, clunky descriptor.

@jonossaseuraava flinta includes straight cis women to my knowledge