Rainbows

Looks like there are a few lists going around.

Mine so far is
Rainbows
The Sun
Easter
Space
Animals
Flags
Flowers
Hearts
Minibeasts
Under The Sea

At my workplace rainbow pins and lanyards are an unwelcome reminder that my workplace has been Stonewalled.

Pictures of rainbows drawn by children to make people happy are absolutely beautiful and make my heart smile.

I'd like to believe that the rainbow is being reclaimed, I really would, but I'm afraid Barrackers warning about pronouns is sounding rather loudly. There is a risk that it is yet another way to lower the barriers to safeguarding. Let's not fall asleep and make Rainbows another form of the drug that can't be named.

My mother said last year that she was sad rainbows had been appropriated.

My feelings exactly. It has been hard work avoiding it when buying clothes for my nephew!!

I know Animals and Easter is coming up. I’ll rout out the list later.

Maybe a doctor and nurse?

Ah, are they changing every week? Would make sense as a rolling classroom activity.

I was thinking what they could use - it's not just rainbows, bees are taken after Manchester. Butterflies maybe? Easy to draw an outline and have kids colour them in.

It started with the Window Wanderland initiative. Every week the children are given a subject and they put the resulting artwork in the window for people to see.

Last week was Rainbows; this week is Sunsets, I think, or simply Sun. it’ll be interesting to see if they keep their rainbows up, or change them each week.

In the bible, the rainbow was a covenant between God & living things: the promise he’d never try and kill us all again. So it’s an interesting symbol to adopt during Coronavirus!

Same. For too long, men hid behind the rainbow and committed all kinds of revolting acts. Like the men who hid behind the sun.

I was just thinking the same today, OP, while taking a brisk walk round a few local streets. Rainbows in the windows lifted my spirits.

One consolation in this Covid disaster is seeing the rainbow once again symbolising good things — solidarity, and hope, and children’s innocent optimism.

The rainbow flag used to symbolise all kinds of positive, cooperative things, including LGB. But the past few years it’s been appropriated by men bullying women. It was good to see it and smile again today

Even after all these years when I see a rainbow flag my first thought is always the Black Panther's Rainbow Coalition from the late sixties cuz I was young and not yet a cynical old baggage.

Iris is the goddess of the rainbow and messenger of the olympian gods. Messages and communication and links heaven to earth.

nauticant you're right. Time to look after oneself and be ready for when the crazies come back.

Stay safe, vipers

I'm encouraged by how measured this thread has started by comparison. There were the usual nonsense claims of transphobia

In the present crisis people do not have the energy to engage with people pushing their own bonkers ideologies. There's no point, and it would just give the ideologues justification for them to claim they're being oppressed.

This means that as soon as debate opens up again we have to be sharpish out of the starting blocks to be pushing back.

At my workplace rainbow pins and lanyards are an unwelcome reminder that my workplace has been Stonewalled.

Pictures of rainbows drawn by children to make people happy are absolutely beautiful and make my heart smile.

I think many agree with that.

I and some others have concerns and worries about groups which have appropriated the flag (thanks for Empress giving an example) and the consequence this could have - we're talking about groups with significant power, funding and clout

It's possible to love seeing pictures in windows whilst at the same time be concerned about what's happening in the background.

So to those on this thread who can't let go of that, work harder at it

Or alternatively should anyone on the thread not be able to let go of that

Its fine...you’re allowed to think and feel what you want and you don’t have to work hard to get rid of those thoughts

As long as you’re not actually attacking children making rainbows or smashing windows with rainbows in its all good

A rainbow is a symbol of hope. If a group you disagree with having a version of it as their symbol, has got so inside your head that you can't see the real thing for what it is, they've won, right?

So to those on this thread who can't let go of that, work harder at it. And make the most of what a rainbow means to lots of children this week.

Midnight rambler or whatever he's called.

Is Mankind god's worst invention or is god Mankind's worst invention?

DISCUSS!

(...just taking the piss out of you know who.)

Thank you everyone for the links.

God promises not to kill almost all life on earth in the future.

That was very nice of god, we should all be grateful. (Sarcasm smiley)

God is a massive bloke who is very important.

To be fair neither had I really and actually I think there are certain groups who would be happy for them to be muddled as one.

I'm encouraged by how measured this thread has started by comparison. There were the usual nonsense claims of transphobia (good to see that some things are constant even in a pandemic) ) at regular intervals just for discussing concerns and reasons for suspicion at the flag.

And just about every women who ever did anything extraordinary. Even Elizabeth I apparently... the assumption is that women are just a bit crap really, and any woman who did anything amazing wasn’t really a woman.

What does that tell you about some people’s philosophy?

In fact, what we are witnessing is "LGBT officers" actively re-writing history.....hence Selena Todd's cancellation. Joan of Arc was really 'trans' you know, and don't dare you say otherwise.