The Alphabet Soup of Victimhood Has Reached Absurdity
In the sacred spirit of political correctness — where every individual gets to self-proclaim their own special designation and the rest of us are supposed to memorize the ever-expanding code — we have now reached peak absurdity with this string of letters: MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+. More than you can create in a bowl of Campbell’s alphabet soup.
No, this commentary was not intended for the satirical online magazine The Onion. This is serious stuff. (Then why can I not stop laughing?)
Canadian NDP Member of Parliament Leah Gazan had a video meltdown over their federal budget. Gazan blasted the Canadian Prime Minister for allegedly providing zero dollars to deal with the … MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+ community. She rattled off that 16-character monstrosity at machine gun pace with a straight face. It sounded less like a policy critique and more like someone trying to log into a secure government server without the password.
I have grown accustomed to the shorter — but no less absurd — American version, LGBTQ+. I have always been impressed with that humble little “+”. It is the political correctness crowd’s insurance policy — add out of a mortal fear of leaving out some yet-to-be-invented special designation — even though they cannot come up with one at the moment. Well, leave it to our friends up north to outdo us. They didn’t just add more letters, they welded an entire tragedy (Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls) onto the sexual and gender rainbow — and still needed the “+” as a safety net.
I knew if I wrote this commentary, I should probably inform readers what all those letters stand for. Without a rational way to decipher the code, I turned to AI — and here is the result:
M M I W G — Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (apparently a significant issue in Canada). 2 S — Two-Spirit (a term used by some Indigenous people to describe individuals who embody both masculine and feminine spirits). L — Lesbian, G — Gay, B — Bisexual, T — Transgender, Q — Queer, Q — Questioning, I — Intersex, A — Asexual, and + — whoever they overlook.
Hey! What about the non-binary, the furries, the sexual masochists or sadists, the scatophiliacs (No, not jazz lovers), pansexuals and the folks who identify as houseplants on Tuesdays? Seems to me that a few more letters could be added before you even get to the obligatory “+”.
In a related matter, there are the flags. The so-called “fag flags” (as some irreverently call them) started out as a simple, cheerful rainbow. The new standard has added so many new stripes to represent every splinter group that the flag will soon have more stripes than a zebra on a bad hair day. At this rate, the alternative lifestyle flag will look like a barcode.
What began decades ago as a straightforward movement for “gay” rights has morphed into an ever-lengthening acronym that even its own supporters struggle to recite without sounding like they are having a stroke. The more letters they add, the more they dilute any original meaning — and the harder it becomes to take any of it seriously.
So, there ‘tis.
And in other news, Larry wonders how men prey upon women, where women don’t take em to court, while if people try to point out discrimination, like this story, he likes to make fun of them. Gee, no wonder the Epstein’s of the world and their “best friends for years,” can exist.
”The Alphabet Soup of Victimhood Has Reached Absurdity:” I don’t know: we had to learn to put up with whining from the likes of you. And yours. We live with your “pain,” your whines over some invented special Alphabet Soup Victimhood designations you make up and force us to use fake terms like Elites, MAGA or TDS, commiecrats, demoncrats, yet another part of your ever-expanding jargon we are supposed to memorize and use…
And “they didn’t just add more letters, they welded an entire tragedy (Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls) onto the sexual and gender rainbow — and still needed the “+” as a safety net” demeans an entire segment of people that this Canadian official called out as receiving no funding for support from the Canadian Government. Some see a request for funding for aid for an aggrieved, persecuted, discriminated, group, you see absurd victimhood.
Instead of looking, instead of compassion, you lash out stating “the harder it becomes to take any of it seriously.” And you don’t. You don’t even look. You just whine on about “the sacred spirit of political correctness,” you slough it off with a inappropriate joke: “This is serious stuff. (Then why can I not stop laughing?),” and “What about the non-binary, the furries, the sexual masochists or sadists, the scatophiliacs (No, not jazz lovers), pansexuals and the folks who identify as houseplants on Tuesdays?”
What about the 1/6 cop-beating felons you turned loose while claiming to be the law-and-order party that supports our cops. Yeah, the Capitol Police, DC Police, and others see your support.
He concludes: “The more letters they add, the more they dilute any original meaning — and the harder it becomes to take any of it seriously.” I don’t think he ever did; if he had only looked:
According to Trump’s Bureau of Indian Affairs and Kennedy’s CDC: “Native American and Alaska Native rates of murder, rape, and violent crime are all higher than the national averages. When looking at missing and murdered cases, data shows that Native American and Alaska Native women make up a significant portion of missing and murdered individuals.
• According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) National Vital Statistics System, homicide was the fourth leading cause of death among 1-44 year old American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) males and the sixth leading cause of death among 1-44 year old AI/AN females in 2023.
• According to the CDC’s 2016/2017 National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey, more than 2 in 5 non-Hispanic AI/AN women (43.7%) were raped in their lifetime.”
• Twenty-seven of the 132 tribal law enforcement agencies that responded to the survey reported initiating investigations involving human trafficking from 2014 to 2016 and six of 61 major city law enforcement agencies reported initiating human trafficking investigations that involved at least one Native victim during the same time period.16 Survey respondents identified lack of training on identifying and responding appropriately to victims, victim shame and reluctance to come forward, and lack of service provider resources as barriers to investigating cases and serving victims.”
Fuck em if they can’t take a joke, eh Larry?
The Canadian lawmaker, in context, was highlighting the need to provide support to these segments of our citizenry facing persecution seemingly for who and what they are. In the case of MMIWG, it is a recognizable group that seems to be discriminated against, persecuted, in Canada and the US, in statistically significant numbers. Larry just laughs and attempts to sweep it all under the table because he cannot be affected by such a trivial matter.
Compassion Larry. It’s a long word, but a good word, and I know you have a lot of it. Why does it falter when the left is involved. Yes, the letters are crazy, even funny, and no, I will never replace he or she with they; but I just move to using their name: it’s a win-win. YOU, you make fun of them, it’s a win-lose. I think, even at your age, you can do better.
I spell my name: D A N G E R, and sometimes you just have to smile as what irks these tighty righties. And the left too. Truth lies in the middle, always has.
The problem with Dunger is that he thinks people give a shit what he thinks. He’s just a sick old man hiding in his basement with whacking material hanging on the walls. But don’t worry about him. He doesn’t have cred even among the lefties.
Bendung: Way to stay on topic and avoid the personal crap.
NOT.
Call us when you get a clue.