itās been what, a year of SGA Discourse? if i google SGA, i get pages about gardening and random businesses with those initials. if i google āsame gender attractionā i get a few resources, but the top pages are christian and mormon sources and a lot of them call it a sin.
if i google MOGAI, i get resources. lots of resources and pages discussing terminology. the first page of Google has one link to āMOGAI hates lesbiansā, written by a Discourser whoās entirety writing about how āallosexualā is insulting, but the rest are all pretty positive.
so just. I donāt think itās ethical to tell people that LGBT+ is synonymous with āSGA and Trans peopleā because itās just a conversion therapy honeypot.
You realize when you look sga up it usually shows results for same sex attraction which is not the same and sga is derived from same gender loving
me turning in my graduate thesis: yeah i didnāt use any ā¦ whatās it calledā¦. da-ta-basses? and i didnāt read any scientific journals to back up my claims, but i DID google my thesis statement and hit up a few google keywords for my abstract, and look at all these sick sources i got from buzzfeed and yahoo answers, so i know WITHOUT A DOUBT that iām right and nobody else could be more right than me. google knows everything, yāallĀ
are questioning kids going through databases now? kids google, that was my point. this wasnāt about anything but what kids are going to find if they look it up, because that is how they educate themselves outside of school and parents. and it brings up overwhelmingly christian sites. Thatās All. Iām sorry this doesnāt have 20 citations and itās not peer reviewed but iām just saying theyāre going to be harmed and shamed if thatās the acronym we tell kids about.
you didnāt mention questioning kids, or kids in general, in your original statement. you literally just said it was about what āpeopleā thought. donāt fucking backtrack and lie to make it seem like you were āuwu just protecting the kidsā because you ended up looking like a fool lmao
your post reads that YOU, in your infinite wisdom, are deciding whether MOGAI or SGA is a better acronym to use based on the first page of google, ignoring that a) the first page of google results is not a valid form of sources, b) that the google algorithm is replacing āgenderā with āsexā (since it searches for terms similar to the one you actually type in), and c) that google (like many search engines) is notorious for boosting pages that pay them money to the front page, which thereby banishes thousands of other legitimate results to the back of google hell.
sorry, your post doesnāt mention anything about kids, or questioning people, or LGBT people at all. the only context is someone who doesnāt actually know how to use google trying to pretend that their google results are the ultimate authority.
i said itās unethical to send anyone looking for conversion therapy resources, and yes, especially questioning kids because theyāre the most likely to google this stuff and are especially vulnerable. These are the first three results, are you going to pretend this is okay?
Thatās the first page of results on my mobile. There are 2 results that are in anyway positive and not related to conversion therapy, which seem to be results based on my location.
This is what I get on my laptop – Theyāre literally all advocating for conversion therapy. I donāt know why the results look different, but my laptop isnāt giving any location-based results, so that may have something to do with it. I donāt know what the inner workings of google look like, and Iām not claiming to know. If anyone wants to show me a google search that gives less pro-conversion results, I can open my submission box for you. All I remember is when I was figuring out my identity, I relied a lot on google, and I know none of these results would have helped. I know googling words isnāt fuckingĀ āscientificā, but itās what I remember doing as a youngster. kids, especially queer kids, get their sex ed from google. like, Iām not sayingĀ SGA discourers are pro-conversion therapy, Iām just saying this is such a specifically tumblr-discourser term that there isnāt enough use of the term to outnumber that of homophobic Christians.
and holy fuck is it that hard to say gay and bi and pan? and MLM and WLW? Sapphic and Achillean? Thereās always better vocabulary you can use and itās just not justifiable to keep spreading conversion therapy terms.
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