If anyone is wondering why I'm leaving the charity sector after only six months in my role, please see this actual genuine thing that has just been sent to me. "Omnisexual Awareness Day"??? GET A GRIP. pic.twitter.com/nxOBKpF3qL
And of course they had to drop months of their own into both Black History Month and Women’s History Month. So we will think about the most marginalized group ever, instead of wasting our time worrying about those people in the oppressing classes who have all the power and all the authority. Right.
As for transgender visibility day – doesn’t that happen everyday? Whether we remember to buy a card or not? I certainly don’t see that they have any problem with visibility, but women certainly do. We’re visible only when men notice us sexually or need a sandwich.
@2: I’m surprised that they didn’t simply turn February into Black Trans History Month and March into Trans Women’s History Month, to show which Black people and which “women” we care about — keep the existing months, but limit them to only center your people (in the case of Women’s History Month, to the exclusion of the people whom the month is meant to center).
Twiliter, that’s why I lumped O/P/B together. The narcissists in the movement are just going to keep splitting hairs and competing for specialness until most of the population throw up their hands and cease to care. In the meantime, that’ll give actual bigots the space to become powerful again. History isn’t a directional arrow of improving social progress, it runs in cycles.
@9: I doubt you need any longer to be bisexual in order to be pansexual or omnisexual. After all, you could be attracted to people of all genders — such as women, transmen, and non-binary femmes — and thus be pansexual! Right?
Bisexuals must be incredibly unhealthy for some reason. An entire month devoted to their health – supplanting Women’s history month no less – an no one else’s health gets a mention.
Oh and ‘Spirit Day’ thrown in there near the end, what the fuck.
Re “Spirit Day”, I’m guessing it’s about that silly inaccurate appropriation of “two-spirit” people from some Native American and possibly other cultures. Because of course you can’t assume there are exactly two spirits, so just “Spirit Day”.
A reminder of how much I appreciate January. :P
And of course they had to drop months of their own into both Black History Month and Women’s History Month. So we will think about the most marginalized group ever, instead of wasting our time worrying about those people in the oppressing classes who have all the power and all the authority. Right.
As for transgender visibility day – doesn’t that happen everyday? Whether we remember to buy a card or not? I certainly don’t see that they have any problem with visibility, but women certainly do. We’re visible only when men notice us sexually or need a sandwich.
What’s the difference beween Omnisexual Awareness Day and Pansexual Awareness Day? Simply Latin vs. Greek, or does one eat a different flavor of cake?
Omni is like buses and pan is like plagues.
@2: I’m surprised that they didn’t simply turn February into Black Trans History Month and March into Trans Women’s History Month, to show which Black people and which “women” we care about — keep the existing months, but limit them to only center your people (in the case of Women’s History Month, to the exclusion of the people whom the month is meant to center).
So I didn’t do too careful a count, but by my reckoning:
Exclusively lesbian – 2 days
Exclusively gay – arguably 2 days
Exclusively intersex – 2 days
Exclusively asex/arom – 2 days
Exclusively sex with anything that moves/breaths (and exceptions there) – 6 days
Exclusively Trans or closely identified (drag and [now] Stonewall) – 6 days
The remaining 9 days are generic or at least theoretically apply to everyone above (although in many public events Trans now dominate).
So, looks like the Gay rights movement now belongs to those who want to be anything they want and those who want to fuck anyone/thing they want.
Pan vs omni: Read this and let your mind boggle.
@7: Thanks. I see that that page has a pansexual flag, but not an omnisexual flag; that must mean that omnisexual is not valid.
Pan- and omni- used to be more accurately described as bi-, as in binary (by literate sorts). :P
Twiliter, that’s why I lumped O/P/B together. The narcissists in the movement are just going to keep splitting hairs and competing for specialness until most of the population throw up their hands and cease to care. In the meantime, that’ll give actual bigots the space to become powerful again. History isn’t a directional arrow of improving social progress, it runs in cycles.
@9: I doubt you need any longer to be bisexual in order to be pansexual or omnisexual. After all, you could be attracted to people of all genders — such as women, transmen, and non-binary femmes — and thus be pansexual! Right?
Bisexuals must be incredibly unhealthy for some reason. An entire month devoted to their health – supplanting Women’s history month no less – an no one else’s health gets a mention.
Oh and ‘Spirit Day’ thrown in there near the end, what the fuck.
Rob, I’m not going to celebrate any of it until they have a Baby Boomer Day. Some of us are oh-so-special too ya know. :D
Holms, presumably for the spiritual? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
twiliter, can people just identify in to being Baby Boomers? Or are those of us who are cis-Boomers exclusive?
Cis-Boomer? Bah!
I dunno ikn, depends how excruciatingly special one thinks baby boomers are? lol
lol@16, good one. :D
Here’s your Internet
So outside of March 1 we can discriminate to our hearts’ content?
(Although now I’m worried that I can’t reject flavored coffee on March 1. “What’s that you say? You have discriminating taste? Not today, bud.”)
Re “Spirit Day”, I’m guessing it’s about that silly inaccurate appropriation of “two-spirit” people from some Native American and possibly other cultures. Because of course you can’t assume there are exactly two spirits, so just “Spirit Day”.
What we need is an “International You’re Really Not All That Special Day”.
“Every day is You’re Not Really All That Special Day.” Said in best parental voice.
So many days, weeks, and months of “awareness” and “visibility”!
So much for “you are not allowed to *out* me” as a core principle.
It’s having cake and eating it too, heads-I-win and tails-you-lose, and both-ways-ism, i.e., nar-trans-ism and entitlement.