[Kobi]

Originally Posted by Nat

I wouldn't mind moving from alphabet soup but I'm not keen calling myself a "diversity" nor do I prefer using terms that emphasize sex over other elements that make up orientation. We are already overly sexualized in the public sphere. I hate it when I hear people talk about "what people do in the privacy of their own bedroom" as though that's the sum total of what LGBQ folks are.

Was thinking something similar. Makes it sound like people are being grouped into 2 categories i.e. cis and hetero or some kind of diverse. Kind of like a "separate but equal" gender/sexual orientation thing - and we know how well that worked out in race relations.

I am not fond of grouping gender with sexual orientation. And something about gender/sexual diversities is a little to close to gender/sexual deviancy or dysphoria.

I dont know if continuing to see ourselves as "separate from" or "different from" is advantageous or empowering. Just seems to be another way of reinforcing the status quo.