I love the queers

[Pope Pixie Pickle]

I checked in at my schools to see what the clubs are called; PCC has a Queer Alliance, and PSU has the Queer Resource Center and Q Club.

I think that it's probably pretty safe/inoffensive to simply use "Queer" or "Non-traditional" to refer to whatever falls outside of the dominant social norm.

I've met folks that find "Queer" upsetting because of being bullied by it as kids, me and my firends tend to use QUILTBAG I'm not sure that the U stands for.

[Pope Pixie Pickle]

Yeah- im with you on that waffles.

Like im a dude who is primarily attracted to females. Bisexual works fine for me. I saw pixie using the terms heteroflexible and homoflexible which i dont even know what those mean. It made me laugh when i read it. It was in support of me so i was grateful for it but as far as i am concerned if you are sexually attracted to both males and females youre bi no further detail necessary.

I use heteroflexible as i mostly like dudes, but am open to relationships/sex with women. also it makes people laugh, and is kind of specific as to where I am on the sexuality spectrum. it's specifying where I am on the whole "how bi am I?"   Homoflexible is the other end of the spectrum. If i'd had more ladysexytiems I'd probably use bi.

[EK WAFFLR]

I like the hetero/homoflexible terms.

[Pope Pixie Pickle]

it also stops elitist QUILTBAG folks getting pissy with you for identifying as bi. Which has happened to me... (they are otherwise a nice person, so meh, who cares)

no gay/queer person (or straight person, even,) I've met seems to be bothered by the term.

[Juana]

There are other people who don't like the sociopolitical context of "queer".

Actually, that's an interesting tangent.

If we're going to be adding new pronouns, how does that affect the terminology of sibling or parent-child relationships?

Note, I'm probably going to get stodgy at this point but if my child/sibling wants me to call them something, I'd like to be familiar with the word already.

Siblings?

[Cardinal Pizza Deliverance.]

it also stops elitist QUILTBAG folks getting pissy with you for identifying as bi. Which has happened to me... (they are otherwise a nice person, so meh, who cares)

no gay/queer person (or straight person, even,) I've met seems to be bothered by the term.

Yeah. I've had many a condescending lesbian tell me that being bi means I'm confused or afraid of commitment or whatever other bullshit they can think of. I just nod and smile and walk away. Or tell them I'm not confused; I'm greedy, I want it all, baby.

[Elder Iptuous]

do they come across in the same way that douche-nozzle guys come across to gay women implying that they just haven't had the right magic penis to show them the error of their ways?

[i'm glad to know that the spelling corrector will show me the proper way to spell douchenozzle]

[Cardinal Pizza Deliverance.]

do they come across in the same way that douche-nozzle guys come across to gay women implying that they just haven't had the right magic penis to show them the error of their ways?

[i'm glad to know that the spelling corrector will show me the proper way to spell douchenozzle]

Only with more hair-flipping and lipstick colored sneers.

[Signora Pæsior]

it also stops elitist QUILTBAG folks getting pissy with you for identifying as bi. Which has happened to me... (they are otherwise a nice person, so meh, who cares)

no gay/queer person (or straight person, even,) I've met seems to be bothered by the term.

Yeah. I've had many a condescending lesbian tell me that being bi means I'm confused or afraid of commitment or whatever other bullshit they can think of. I just nod and smile and walk away. Or tell them I'm not confused; I'm greedy, I want it all, baby.

Adding to this, my pansexuality is not only me being greedy and confused and afraid of commitment (and going to cheat on Pæs), but it's also me being an attention-seeker by using stupid fancy words.

Basically, elitist assholes in the QUILTBAGPIPE community manage to be both hilarious and somehow more upsetting than people who are flat-out heterosexist.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

it also stops elitist QUILTBAG folks getting pissy with you for identifying as bi. Which has happened to me... (they are otherwise a nice person, so meh, who cares)

no gay/queer person (or straight person, even,) I've met seems to be bothered by the term.

Yeah. I've had many a condescending lesbian tell me that being bi means I'm confused or afraid of commitment or whatever other bullshit they can think of. I just nod and smile and walk away. Or tell them I'm not confused; I'm greedy, I want it all, baby.

Adding to this, my pansexuality is not only me being greedy and confused and afraid of commitment (and going to cheat on Pæs), but it's also me being an attention-seeker by using stupid fancy words.

Basically, elitist assholes in the QUILTBAGPIPE community manage to be both hilarious and somehow more upsetting than people who are flat-out heterosexist.

One really effective way I've found to deal with this is to tell people that who, what, or how I fuck is none of their business.

Of course, I've also been known to play it a little close to the chest. When I got pregnant the first time, my co-workers were curious about how. They apparently had spent the entire year and a half we worked together assuming that my spouse, Chris, was a woman.

[Juana]

do they come across in the same way that douche-nozzle guys come across to gay women implying that they just haven't had the right magic penis to show them the error of their ways?

[i'm glad to know that the spelling corrector will show me the proper way to spell douchenozzle]

Mmm, less "let me be that magic penis". More anger.

[Cardinal Pizza Deliverance.]

it also stops elitist QUILTBAG folks getting pissy with you for identifying as bi. Which has happened to me... (they are otherwise a nice person, so meh, who cares)

no gay/queer person (or straight person, even,) I've met seems to be bothered by the term.

Yeah. I've had many a condescending lesbian tell me that being bi means I'm confused or afraid of commitment or whatever other bullshit they can think of. I just nod and smile and walk away. Or tell them I'm not confused; I'm greedy, I want it all, baby.

Adding to this, my pansexuality is not only me being greedy and confused and afraid of commitment (and going to cheat on Pæs), but it's also me being an attention-seeker by using stupid fancy words.

Basically, elitist assholes in the QUILTBAGPIPE community manage to be both hilarious and somehow more upsetting than people who are flat-out heterosexist.

One really effective way I've found to deal with this is to tell people that who, what, or how I fuck is none of their business.

Of course, I've also been known to play it a little close to the chest. When I got pregnant the first time, my co-workers were curious about how. They apparently had spent the entire year and a half we worked together assuming that my spouse, Chris, was a woman.

LOL! I'd have brought in a turkey baster and introduced it as the father.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

it also stops elitist QUILTBAG folks getting pissy with you for identifying as bi. Which has happened to me... (they are otherwise a nice person, so meh, who cares)

no gay/queer person (or straight person, even,) I've met seems to be bothered by the term.

Yeah. I've had many a condescending lesbian tell me that being bi means I'm confused or afraid of commitment or whatever other bullshit they can think of. I just nod and smile and walk away. Or tell them I'm not confused; I'm greedy, I want it all, baby.

Adding to this, my pansexuality is not only me being greedy and confused and afraid of commitment (and going to cheat on Pæs), but it's also me being an attention-seeker by using stupid fancy words.

Basically, elitist assholes in the QUILTBAGPIPE community manage to be both hilarious and somehow more upsetting than people who are flat-out heterosexist.

One really effective way I've found to deal with this is to tell people that who, what, or how I fuck is none of their business.

Of course, I've also been known to play it a little close to the chest. When I got pregnant the first time, my co-workers were curious about how. They apparently had spent the entire year and a half we worked together assuming that my spouse, Chris, was a woman.

LOL! I'd have brought in a turkey baster and introduced it as the father.

Extra points if a father does this.

[Ben Shapiro]

I'll stick to Non-Hetro Ally

[East Coast Hustle]

I approve of this course of action. 

Gotta keep the little shits on their toes. I achieve this by making them uncomfortable wherever possible.

I think I'm going to take a few pages out of the TGRR book of parenting.

Yeah, yeah, that's all well and good, but...

..while I'm at it, let me tell you about your old cis-man and the shenanigans he used to and still get up to and your ma begrudgingly put(s) up with. Also, here's a Pope Card and some plastic eggs and some oranges. Oh, hey, you're doing that, can I join in? I won't tell mom, I swear. Here's $500 (inflation). Have a good time with your genderfriend.

It should be noted also, that I am less traditional than Villager. We've already had the conversation about last names, and I figured that if they are male, they bear my last name, if they are female, they bear hers. We came to the compromise that if they are female, they are Twiddleton-Villager and if male, Villager-Twiddleton, not including first and middle names. I think.

We did agree that our first daughter would be named after my paternal grandmother.

No, Twid. Don't turn your children into more of those godawful white people with hyphenated last names.