If I wanted a good catch all term meaning "people who don't easily fit into the mould society wants them to" that covers LGBT and neurodiversity, is there anything good for this? Everything catchy I can think of has the potential to rub someone very the wrong way.
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e.g. I originally slightly-tongue-in-cheek going used "queers and weirdos" (very much intending to include myself in this category) but I think if you read that without knowing it was coming from an insider (or didn't want to count me as an insider I guess) it would sting.
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How do people feel about "Outsiders"?
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I'm quite tempted by just using "Weirdos". I feel like anyone who actually intended the term pejoratively would use something stronger, so it's actually a relatively good ingroup signal.
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Replying to @DRMacIver
Yeah, I like this too. It covers both gender/sexual deviance and neuro-atypicality, and emphasizes the non mainstream, out-of-the-boxness of both.
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Replying to @_awbery_ @DRMacIver
Also covers racial and religious diversity. And, arguably, the stereotype in popular culture is that women are illegible to men.
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Yup, and unlike the other words I was considering this inclusiveness is a good thing because it cleaves along a useful line of shared experience (and, conveniently, exactly the one I needed)
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Oh wait we're commenting on different choices. I though that this was about "the illegible" rather than "weirdos" (which I do also like but feel they have different use cases?)
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Replying to @DRMacIver @_awbery_
You were right; I was commenting on “illegible”. I personally thought “weirdos” was a bad choice for your use case because the competing “WEIRDos” is functionally primarily about (economic) class.
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Why about class? That one may have passed me by.
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