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A Three-Letter Word from LGBTQ
The title of this OP was a clue in my morning crossword puzzle. It made me angry. I can’t even escape the leftist propaganda with my morning coffee, Crunch cereal with almond milk, raisins, and bananas. I have to be reminded that this term (which now has many more letters nowadays) has become part of our everyday lexicon.
My reaction is not just about the term LGBTQ; it’s about everyone trying to normalize those lifestyles which once were considered out of the norm. Don’t get me wrong: I love the diversity of my crossword puzzle — What’s a port in Yemen? Name a Wall Street index? What’s a desert plant used to make tequila? Who was the screenwriter, James, who wrote “The African Queen”? (Tuesday’s puzzles are pretty easy.)
I get enough politically correct nonsense from everywhere else. Please leave my crossword puzzle alone.
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Indeed! Just like sports fans who only want to hear about sports on ESPN.
Ten years ago it probably would have been “____ Paree.”
OMG–nothing is sacred! Especially sports–we could spending hours talking about indoctrination there. Sigh.
What paper was it in? My 81 year old mother-in-law has done a crossword puzzle weekly (might be daily) for most of her life – she has multiple language dictionaries and is very sharp, but I bet that would have stumped her !! GADS!!
Ah yes, Hoyacon, fond memories. So sad.
They were once considered outside the norm. Now they’re not. Standards and mores change over time. Some are for the better (like not burning gay people at the stake) and some are for the worse (the prevalence of facial tattoos).
It’s the only thing I read in the Orlando Sentinel, FSC–gah! If there’s any local news that Jerry thinks I might want to hear, he reads it to me. I don’t know if the WSJ would have something like this, but obviously they probably don’t have a puzzle-maker on staff. I’ll have to keep an eye out. Your poor mother-in-law . . .
When I say outside the norm, Fred, I’m saying they are a tiny part of the population. Not the same as saying “normal.” As a result, I think we spend a lot of time on them although they are outside the norm.
As someone pointed out several years back, homosexuality has gone from “the love that dare not speak its name”, to “the love that won’t shut up”.
That is a good point. Perhaps the demographic of those who still do crossword puzzles aren’t down with the new jargon.
I often wonder how Millenials would be able to complete them, Mate De; lots of the clues are oldies. But maybe some of them are fans of the good ol’ days. Or maybe just us more mature folks are doing them!
If they are so normal why do they have to advertise it so much?
The latest norm :
At full throttle, the letters wind up something like LGBTQQIP2SAA – Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender,
We know what you meant Susan. There was this scene in the movie Boiler Room where the alpha Wall Street brokers are taunting some gay dudes at another table and the brokers say ” You know what they should do? Take all you guys and put you on one big f ing island” to which the gay dude replies “You’re on it” Meaning the island of Manhattan.
The reason why it seems everything is gay is because the vast majority live in coastal cities where much of the folks that create our media, movies, TV, etc…. live. So if you live in a place where it seems everyone one is gay, you lose sight of the fact that the percentage is pretty small, in comparison to the rest of the country.
Which is why it would be nice for some of our media creators to live in smaller towns, or rural areas to get a better sense of the majority make up of the country.
I was doing a crossword and the seven-letter clue was: “A type of ant.” I wrote “Pissant” and proceeded to finish the puzzle. YAY! The next day I learned that the correct answer was “Pismire” not “Pissant”…It screwed up my whole puzzle! On the plus side, I’ve never forgotten “Pismire.”
Well, it’s hard to not advertise when something is tattooed on your face.
Right. But nobody uses that because, as branding goes, it’s kinda clunky.
When “LGBTQQIP2SAA” shows up in your crossword, that will be … remarkable.
Well, yeah, but if you were doing a crossword from like 40 or 50 years ago, there’s probably a bunch of clues you’d have no shot at getting. Sure, “Russian Pacific seaport, 11 letters” isn’t going to change, but phrases and references change over time.
I spent a good chunk of the 1990s and early 2000s learning a bunch of references from the ’60s and ’70s just so I could get the references. (I saw through Lawrence of Arabia so I could get a couple of references in one episode of “The Critic.”) But nobody makes those references anymore.
That’s because if you spoke its name you’d be burned at the stake for it.
Nope. It’s a pretty small percentage even in those places.
Gallup did a survey of self-identified gays by metropolitan area a few years ago. In San Francisco, the percentage of gays is something like 6%. And that was the highest percentage anywhere in the country.
And the variation across regions is not that high:
http://www.gallup.com/poll/182051/san-francisco-metro-area-ranks-highest-lgbt-percentage.aspx
I know what you mean but the perception is that it is higher. My sister had one gay couple in her neighborhood and she would refer to it as the “gayberhood” when they would have get togethers. Like, I’m hanging with some folks from the gayberhood. I said to her how does one couple make the entire neighborhood gay? There are hundreds of people who live there. So it is more a perception than actual numbers. I hope that makes sense.
Just because something is common does not make it normal.
“Pan Sexual.” If you believe, clap your hands?
What about the ongoing standard of throwing “gay people” off the top of buildings by that religion of peace (sic) …
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/12/06/isis-throws-man-off-roof-for-being-gay-mob-pelts-corpse-with-rocks.html
From the Wikipedia:
Un PC word that would fit the clue….
F##…..
Not nearly enough….
“UK Facebook users can now choose from one of 71 gender options, including asexual, polygender and two-spirit person, following the feature’s successful integration in the US.”
We have to remember that the constructor is not trying to force certain words in (except for themed answers of course). He fills in the grid, then tries to supply clues that describe what he ended up with. I got that one right away, but because it has been in the news so much recently. And it’s now a word, so I guess we just have to deal.
The trend I’d rather kvetch about is the ever-growing convenient out for the constructor of using rappers’ names. I have NO idea, and apparently they could be anything – any random spelling. I always have to solve it with the crossing words, but there’s no way to be sure until the app plays the little music that announces my daily victory.
All is fair game I guess, but rappers’ names might as well be random letters. (I know “DRE”.)
Why did you put “gay people” in quotes?
But seaports have changed names in the last century. Danzig-Gdansk. St. Petersburg-Petrograd-Leningrad-Petersburg. Constantanople-Istanbul. Bombay-Mumbai.