Shadow Unit Schwag

[MadGastronomer]

The gay community usually uses a lowercase lambda, though, which isn't a triangle.  It's the old Mattachine Society symbol.

[postholedigger]

Yeah, I know the difference, but a lot of people don't. Or can't be bothered to differentiate.

[MadGastronomer]

This makes me unreasonably cranky.

[Emma Bull]

They probably figured a triangle is a triangle.

Heh--that never flew with my high school geometry teacher, either.

[elsie]

They probably figured a triangle is a triangle.

Yeah, that was what I figured.  My husband thought the whole thing was vastly amusing.   

[elsie]

And after all, it did give me the opportunity to point them to SU, so all in all, a really good mistake, or whatever you'd call it.

[batwrangler]

Uh, well, look, that's not its name. "Shadow Unit", I mean. That's what they might call it, but you know that's not the official name of the group, in the gummint records.

So, whatever IS the offame*, probably has an (entirely legal) offogo to go with it. Which is what should be on shirts and mugs and such.


(Extra points to whoever can identify why it's 'offame" & not 'offname", and the story that comes from. Why they grounded the starships.)

But I think what you need is an autographed chapbook of the collected aphorisms of Solomon Todd. (Think of how much damn fun you'll have writing it.)

Autographed session one anthology.

(Typo in the manifest used for inventory, iirc. Allamagoosa. EFR. Because no one wanted to admit they had no idea what an offog was.)

[haycorn]

The gay community usually uses a lowercase lambda, though, which isn't a triangle.  It's the old Mattachine Society symbol.

Yes, but there's also the pink triangle, which is sometimes not pink.  So, I could see the origin of the confusion (though the pink triangle does seem to be pointing the opposite way as the delta, but I know I personally didn't notice until I checked.)

[MadGastronomer]

I'm still a little astounded that we use the pink triangle.  Also, other than the occasional conjoined pink and blue triangles for us bisexuals, what on earth variations have they done?
*is grumpy some more that that got confused with the delta*

[nebula]

Doesn't the pink triangle pre-date the lambda symbol?

[MadGastronomer]

Well, yes and no.  The pink triangle was the symbol put on homosexual men imprisoned in Nazi concentration camps.  It wasn't used as a pride symbol until much, much later.  The lambda was used as a symbol of the Mattachine Society (a social club/activist group for acceptance of gays) in, I think, the sixties, possibly the fifties (but definitely pre-Stonewall).  So the pink triangle predates the lambda as a symbol of homosexuals, but postdates it as a pride symbol.

[Korvar]

My brother once opined that as gays were apparently pink triangles and straights blue squares, that meant bisexuals would have to be mauve heptagons.

[MadGastronomer]

My brother once opined that as gays were apparently pink triangles and straights blue squares, that meant bisexuals would have to be mauve heptagons.

No.  Just no.
Purple, not mauve, please.

Although, actually, mauve has a really fascinating place in the history of dyestuffs, as it in the first synthetic dye ever created.  There's a whole book about it, entitled, unimaginatively but appropriately, Mauve.

[Elizabeth Bear]

For purple, you'd need red triangles....

[MadGastronomer]

I don't care.  Purple is clearly superior.
At a minimum, lavender.  Mauve is too pinky and clashes with my eyes.