Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for July 28, 2018

I’ll just call it Mile Long Spam Town, land of those who like to say big words.

Good to see the yaks and zebras included.

Lately, they’ve started calling it just Pride which bothers me, because now a mother can’t be proud of little Timmy unless little Timmy is gay.

Sums up what most people think of that I´d say.

No alphabet soup for you!

He’s dressed more like he’s involved in the Mormon community.

Wonder what the Crocs think about Identification Politics?

This comic is not funny. Its actually actively harmful. Stephen is essentially saying he can’t be bothered to pay attention to the terms of a marginalized community. If Stephen can’t be bothered to learn why should I continue to read him? And plz spare me the “one queer/black/brown friend bit”.

Steph goes dancing in the minefield.

LGBTTQQIAAP

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♫ And a partridge in a pear tree ♫

After the gigantic mess organizers of the WorldCon 2018 science fiction convention made in the past few days relative to said-community, you better hope their critics don’t see this. comic strip.

What if we just call everyone human and move along :)

Stephan is gonna get some ‘letters’ now, I’m sure.

The best one I’ve run across so far, and it’s actually pronounceable, is QUILTBAG.

Q – Queer and Questioning

U – Unidentified

I – Intersex

L – Lesbian

T – Transgender, Transexual

B – Bisexual

A – Asexual

G – Gay

Where is Vanna White,when you need her ;)

M-word your Y-word E-word.

I’d like to buy a vowel.

I had to make up my own: HWMRSHHGH (Heterosexual White Male Rocking Skirts, High Heels, and Groovy Hosiery).

I’m part of an endangered community: the HWOM. Heterosexual white older male. Feel free to make fun of me, belittle me, and make snide comments without fear of any retribution.

They forgot ж, ю, ъ, ß, ç, א, ף, ر .

I have a form of dwarfism and once had a conversation with a guy in a hotel lobby during a Little People of America conference that went something like this:

Guy: I’ve heard you guys called little people, midgets, dwarfs, short … what do you prefer to be called?

Me: “John” works pretty well for me.

I’ve always felt they should just go with ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ. That way, they get all the current orientations, as well as the ones that they haven’t thought of yet.

my gay friends have even started calling it the “lgbtqrstuv” to deride it

Pig thinks he knows “me’s” letters, but it seems that he is barely literate at all. Not to mention a bit confused about the ever-growing acronym….

nikkicatt1 : I think autocorrect mangled your sentence about the t-shirt. what was that supposed to read?

I am actually very active in the BLT community.. on second thought, forget it. I am not that fond of lettuce or tomato

I call it the “LQBTQIA GTG ROTFL” community. Trying to be inclusive.

When I was a kid, “Queer” covered them all. So, it was “you leave me alone and I’ll pretend you don’t exist”. And all were happy……..well, all of us straight people. As for the queers, who cares?