Comment on How do you refer to the lgbtq+ "community" least excludingly?

• Bougie_Birdie@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The 2 or sometimes characterized 2S refers to the Two-Spirit community.

  I’m realizing now this may only be a thing in my part of the world, which may go to show that an overly inclusive acronym is actually divisive.

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  • WeeSheep@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I would not consider that decisive, I would say I need to do better. But also, we all have life to learn and some knowledge travels faster than others. Please don’t change.

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    • BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Seconded! Don’t change, just because a term used by the North American first nations people is unknown to me, as a Scandinavian, doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t use it in an everyday context. Just that I probably won’t, because … because what actually? I mean I’m Danish, we colonized Greenland, Iceland, and the Faeroe Islands. As a culture we really wrecked the native Greenlandic culture. I should probably look into how to include the Inuits in the future then.

      Writing that sentence I wanted to make sure, that Inuit is the preferred term. And in 5 minutes I learned that there’s not just one Greenlandic language, there’s actually three. I’m in my 40s, I’ve lived in Denmark my entire life, and received an average Danish education - WTF? why haven’t I learned something as basic as this about my fellow countrymen? Danish is taught in Greenlandic schools, but we can’t bother to know that there’s three Greenlandic languages?!?

      Now I really need to figure out, how to include Greenlanders, like the Two-Spirit community, but in a localized version.

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    • Bougie_Birdie@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      “Divisive” might not have been the right word here. I just meant that it can add to the confusion :)

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• iAmTheTot@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I believe that one is "2 souls", which is a term that North American first nations people use, iirc.

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