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lightcastle) wrote2011-06-23 01:12 pm
lightcastle) wrote2011-06-23 01:12 pm
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QUILTBAG? QUILTBAGPIPE?
I came across QUILTBAG recently and have been having mixed feelings about it. I do kind of adore that someone came up with an acronym that is pronounceable in English. I happen to like acronyms and anagrams from time to time.
However, the suffix -bag is so tied to insult in my understanding of North American slang (douchebag, dirtbag, etc), that I find it hard not to think of this as a pejorative. I had, in fact, presumed the acronym was coined by a European, although that seems not to be the case. (It seems to have started as QLTBG - just re-ordering the letters of the more well known versions.)
QUILTBAGPIPE (explanation here) gets around that, and is rather amusing, but I'm still not convinced.
Obviously, as a white, heterosexual, cis-male, what I think of it is rather epically inconsequential, even if the inclusiveness of QUILTBAGPIPE means I fall under its penumbra.
So, as I have friends and readers who are far more implicated in such things, what do others think here?
However, the suffix -bag is so tied to insult in my understanding of North American slang (douchebag, dirtbag, etc), that I find it hard not to think of this as a pejorative. I had, in fact, presumed the acronym was coined by a European, although that seems not to be the case. (It seems to have started as QLTBG - just re-ordering the letters of the more well known versions.)
QUILTBAGPIPE (explanation here) gets around that, and is rather amusing, but I'm still not convinced.
Obviously, as a white, heterosexual, cis-male, what I think of it is rather epically inconsequential, even if the inclusiveness of QUILTBAGPIPE means I fall under its penumbra.
So, as I have friends and readers who are far more implicated in such things, what do others think here?