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by Yetanfou 2143 days ago
Of course it would, the way these terms are being made up and expanded is self-defeating. From hispanic to latino to latinx, from homosexual to gay and lesbian to lesbian and gay to (too many words, let's use an acronym) LGB to LGBT to LGBTQ to half the alphabet plus some interpunction - I've heard the term 'alphabet people' being bandied around. This is a natural outcome of intersectionality, everyone will want to see his group represented in the terminology. It resembles the scene in Monty Python's Life of Brian where the PFJ (People's Front of Judea) confess their hatred of the JPF, the other JPF, the JPPF and then some.