Comments on: Do You Count?

By: Catherine Carey

Catherine Carey — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 10:28:34 +0000

Yesterday I blogged about slurs after seeing the GLESN PSA featuring Hillary Duff.
Your post gives me something to blog about today.
Thanks!!
Catherine

By: Guido

Guido — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 12:39:50 +0000

Troy is, like most of the time, completely right.
Preference/Choice must be among the top 3. These terms are abused too often by people who simply don’t WANT to understand.

By: Colm Howard-Lloyd

Colm Howard-Lloyd — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 12:36:56 +0000

Preference is another term many people find offensive; being that it implies your sexualty is merely something you “sometimes prefer to do”.
Going off topic slightly the American Family Association likes to refer to LGBT liberation as “the culture war” in its abhorations to the likes of Pepsi to “stay neutral”. Absolute nonesense of course implying that you chose who to tolerate rather than embracing everyone.

By: Ben Finzel

Ben Finzel — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 12:27:58 +0000

Thanks Troy. “Preference” is right up on there on my list – good suggestion.
If you, or any of our readers, have other suggestions, please share them with us in the comments. I’ll start working on the list and will take all of this other feedback into account.
Thanks again!

By: Troy - FH Mpls

Troy - FH Mpls — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 10:35:46 +0000

I look forward to seeing your list of 10 words to avoid in LGBT marketing and believe it should be widely published! A suggestion, “preference” should be somewhere on the list.