Special Interest Groups
or
Groups With Interests that are Special
or
Special Groups With Interests
or
Interests that Specialize in Groups
or
GROUPS
(Grownups
Raging Over Underwear Poop Stuff))
Today, according to
“Wikipedia” (which is a special interest group dedicated to fake information
that is unusable in college term papers) Special Interest Groups (SIG’s) are
organizations focused on mutual interests. For example: JALT, the Japan
Association of Language Teachers, is a SIG where folks try to come up with ways
to get their students to speak better and more Japanese.
Actually, I have no idea
what this group dreams about. It’s possible this group just sits around and
drinks fermented rice juice.
A jaunty assembly of clever
letters is often involved in organizing a special interest group—also T-shirts
with informational messages like Join JALT—but only if you
teach better and more Japanese.
I love SIG’s. They’re so
tribal. Historically a tribe was a Special Interest Group dedicated to the
“mutual interest” of kicking some other tribe’s butt and burning down all their
stuff. Like the Special Interest Group the VISIGOTHS whose “mutual interest”
was raping and burning its way across the Special Interest Group EUROPE.
Today, Special Interest
Groups tend to be much more narrow in their “mutual interests.”
For example, the special
interest group AWGA, Australian
Worm Growers Association, is a group that wants to teach more and better
Japanese to worm farmers.
Not true. Actually, it’s a
fan club for earthworms and the folks that grow ‘em in Australia.
Scary stuff, if you belong
to the special interest group FFCNCST (Folks Frightened by Creepy Night Crawling Squishy Things.)
Special Interests Groups
include: Labor and Trade Unions, Associations, Groups, Clubs, Chorus Lines,
Steel Drum Bands, and Clown Cars.
The “Von” Zern Family
singers and clog dancers are a special interest group that has been drawn
together by the mutual interests of extreme opinion making, the free exchange
of potty training tips and tricks, and ritual mooching.
The most fascinating special
interest group that I have learned of recently is associated with my college
and describes itself thusly, “The
Safe Zone Ally Program [hopes] to increase awareness and solidarity with our
diverse gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, questioning, queer, pansexual and
intersex (LGBTQQIP) community.
I was excited when I read
pansexual because I thought it meant sex with pandas, and while I wouldn’t want
to marry a panda, I’d love to snuggle a panda. FYI – that’s not what pansexual
means. See? It’s working already; my awareness has increased.
And that’s why special
interest groups are good; they’re fun; they’re educational; they’re insulating;
they’re all for us and us for us.
Linda (Raw Milk Drinkers for
Freedom) Zern
