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Exactly, words that are synonyms to other words but have different linguistic backgrounds, history, and nuance should just be discarded.
Now please, help me burn these thesauruses.
Oh please how old can these terms be
Don't answer that it's probably older than I think isn't it
No don't worry. We can describe the totality of human sexuality and existence with three simple words: gay, straight, or bi. All these other labels confuse the straight people and therefore should be discarded to appeal to straight people's infinite compassion.
I say this as a bi person, not a straight