"How do I hate thee? Let me count the ways . . ."

I have so many objections to the word "queer", foremost:

• The clique-ish way it's used. If you object, you're ostracized at best, bullied at worst
• The use of it as an "umbrella term". Who said we wanted one? And why do we need one?
• The false claims about the Q-word's definition, such as "it wasn't always a slur" and "LGBT people invented it" among others
• The way it mashes Lesbians, Gay men, Bisexual folk, Transfolk, etcetera into a shapeless, flavorless gruel
• The way it defines sex and gender diverse people as the opposite of heterosexual people
• The way activists in the media are shoving it down our throats and running the word into the ground
• The way it's become a grab bag for anybody who isn't heterosexual (except when someone is heterosexual and it's necessary to be "inclusive")
• The lie that LGBT people never use it with derogatory intent
• The lie that nobody uses it with derogatory intent anymore
• The radical nature of the word, making it inappropriate for across-the-board use
• homophobic statements by Queer activists such as: "Lesbian, that word just sounds ugly"
• The enormous amount of hateful and stereotypical baggage the Q-word carries
• The immaturity of those who use the Q-word, basically as a way to rebel against "straight" society
• The way it has been teased and stretched beyond all comprehensible meaning
• The willful ignorance of Queer activists about how hard we fought to make the words "Gay and "Lesbian" ours, and why those words' lack of inherent derogatory meaning was so important to us
• The way it's used as a tool to take over the LesBiGay rights movement and turn it into a vehicle for Gender Woo Woo