Comment on How do you refer to the lgbtq+ "community" least excludingly?
Bougie_Birdie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months agoThe 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.
WeeSheep@lemmy.world 4 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.
BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 4 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.
Bougie_Birdie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
“Divisive” might not have been the right word here. I just meant that it can add to the confusion :)