Who has it better than me?

[glamorilla]

You exhibit a common misunderstanding of the term 'censorship.'

is it "you can say anything you want as long as it's okay by me"?

 

[Stella_Omega]

I guess I don't find the word inclusive because of its history. Granted "GLBT" doesn't roll off the tongue -- it sounds more like what it would sound like if you were choking on jello. Since I'm neither young nor a political activist, I accept that others love the word and leave at that. I just cannot relate to it at all. To give another analogy, imagine that people from Asia felt that they needed a pan-Asian name so as to included east Asians, south Asians, Middle Easterners, Pacific Islanders, etc... Such a diverse group would be poorly represented if they used the term for one group. But just imagine such a group looking for derogatory term to come up with an "umbrella" term for all of them...

So what I'm saying is I'm surprised that there wasn't some more historically-neutral term or perhaps one originating from within the group or old an out-dated derogatory term that is so old that anybody insulted by it has long since passed away...

Well in the best of all possible worlds, we wouldn't be looking for a derogatory word, per se. But any commonly used word that defines a smaller group will be derogatory in the mouths of the majority-- because "othering" is always derogatory.

There's a good essay on wikipedia about the term "queer" the explains why it's become the most common word for everything not straight;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queer
Since the eighties, I've heard it used it to mean everything that is non-heteronormative (and that's a word I didn't know back then!)

Personally, I think thirty years of reclaiming is long enough to have established ownership... The problem with "uranian" is that nobody uses it...