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[–] bmsok@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I thought it was short for asexual :-/ still learning new things

[–] AceCephalon@pawb.social 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

As an Asexual, can confirm, they're just making a joke with a text based stutter, not referring to Asexual or Agender, such as in "LGBTQIA+" that generally refers to multiple things under the "A".

In the latter case, it's left open ended for inclusivity, rather than arbitrarily excluding other things by specifying.

As for how the original comment could possibly be more inclusive, it's harder to say exactly, but I can think of something like "Ladies, Gentlemen, and everyone else", but I'm not exactly great at fancy words... or words in general... but I try my best.

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Asexual usually gets shortened to "ace" I believe.

[–] bmsok@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Ace is the term I'm familiar with, too. I just didn't want to be left in the dark if there was an even more abbreviated version of the abbreviation.