Instead of gays, why don't we call ourselves Philadrists?

I don't think it's fair that lesbians have so many terms for themselves, but we have to share all ours with theirs. Therefore, I think Philandrist would fill the bill.

• Gay would continue to mean lesbians and gay men, but now we could see, Gays consist of lesbians, philandrists, bisexuals, trangenders, questioning, queer, and so on.

• I wonder if Jews wanted to ever change "Jew"...and not just their last name. I see so many similarities between self-loathing Jews and self-loathing gays.

• What an idiotic idea, OP.

• Which person or group designated "gay," anyway? Why did it stick?

• We could already call ourselves ghey or g0y or g@y.

• Because it sounds too much like philanderer. And philanthropist.

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• What an odd suggestion, OP. Not all of us collect stamps.

• ha

• Well it would stop people from naming their children "Philippe" virtually overnight, so the Baby Name troll should be with me on this.

• Make up your mind, OP! Philadrists - as in the subject heading for your post? Or Philandrist - as in the text of your post?

• Well, if we could change the spelling a bit, it would be fine: Philadrist instead of Philandrist.

• Technically philandrist is the term.

  http://www.encyclo.co.uk/define/philandrist

• Somebody already has a blog

  http://thephilandrist.wordpress.com/

• I think that the problem with the word is demonstrated by OP's difficulty spelling it.

• [quote]I wonder if Jews wanted to ever change "Jew"...and not just their last name. I see so many similarities between self-loathing Jews and self-loathing gays. Jews changed their names in the 20th century because of widespread discrimination against them, not because of self-loathing.

• What is it that philandrists practice? Philandropy? Philandrodendum?

• That would sound like philanderers , and by word association (or the way it sounds) it would only add to view of gays as hypersexual sex addict freaks.