Rainbows

He said he'd "speak to the LGBT officer about it

And the only letter that actually counts in that acronym nowadays is T.

Yes! I was going to post about this. Love seeing all the rainbows shorn of all the hamfisted political posturing.

There was a, shall we say, lively thread this week discussing this on AIBU.

For a while now I've not liked how the rainbow flag has been taken and twisted from a symbol of hope to a way to put women in their place.

Im enjoying seeing the image in windows how it should be seen - symbolising hope and optimism. For the time being anyway.

The cretins who abuse this are unfortunately like cockroaches so will still be having their own toddler tantrums when we get to the other side of this awful reality

He said he'd "speak to the LGBT officer about it

It has got to the stage when LGBT officers make decisions about core texts and about who gets invited/cancelled at university events.

It wasn't an official sign apparently, someone seems to have stuck it over something else that had the uni badge on.

Is that a real sign? From Liverpool Uni? That's vile

It certainly does not come from the top, but from one of its captured departments. Some time ago I scanned the shelves of the 'gender studies/feminism' section in Blackwell's ( university bookshop) to see what it contained/and what it did not contain ( key feminist texts....), and then commented to a member of staff how the section was lacking in many critical texts, and was skewed towards TRA ideology. He said he's "speak to the LGBT officer about it".....Needless to say, it remains an ideological pure shelf...and a generation of young women/ lesbians have no access to to a thoroughly rounded education, or to the history of their struggle...at a British university.

Matt Hancock (and NHS) rainbow pins and lanyards are to show they are LGBTQI+ allies or part of the LGBTQI+ network at their workplace. Most civil service departments have them (mine has the lanyards).

I do like seeing the artwork, apparently it's bears next week according to my colleague with small children.

Stonewall no longer view same-sex attraction as a thing - it’s all about being attracted to people’s genders - so they view genital preferences as transphobic nowadays.

It was never their rainbow in the first place.

Rainbows tend to spontaneously erupt from the imagination of children - given crayons and paper........but yes, along with friggin' unicorns, rainbows have become appropriated by the loony identitarians...so much so that I tend to recoil upon seeing them.

In straightened and more 'essentialist' times, words, images and associations will inevitably revert back to their primal & original states. Words like 'Woman' & 'Natal Sex' and images of rainbows.

A Liverpool Uni student saw it & shared on social. And yes, it is vile.

Is that a real sign? From Liverpool Uni? That's vile.

Errol
There's more chance of Noah's Ark being true...

empress
That sign is horrendous
No one tells my babies what genitals they should prefer

Too right, Rufus!

My mother said last year that she was sad rainbows had been appropriated. I agree with her. Something as beautiful and cheering as a rainbow does not belong to anybody and I felt the same when I saw photos on Facebook.

empress

That sign is horrendous

No one tells my babies what genitals they should prefer

And even though they are 21 18 and 16 I’m really not comfortable thinking about genitals when i think of my precious angels 😳

Yes, I'm happy to see rainbows for the first time in a long time.

I'm taking the happiness while it lasts, as unfortunately I can't see it lasting.

killed most animals into the bargain

Never understood why he killed the animals

Thats why I started questioning Religion as a child

I know its just a story

(But i also became a (very bad) vegetarian at 9 after reading Animal Farm...so obviously actual points swooshed over my head as a child)

My son is gay and he and his partner do love a rainbow t shirt in what they feel is the appropriate place (pride Etc)

Ive my own reason for not liking them

• Noah's Ark But I'm not sure it's a true story...*

Yes, but then again I'm not sure everything stonewall says is true either.

Physics OTOH (even though newton only got part way on the 'is it a wave? Is it a particle?question )

Genesis 9 , part of the strangest source for cute kiddie stories and songs ever https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+5%3A32-10%3A1&version=NIV

*Horse Genesis 9:11-13 - God promises not to kill almost all life on earth in the future.

Well, if rainbows are going back from homophobic misogyny to a symbol of happiness that can only be a good thing.

Horseradish
Noah's Ark
But I'm not sure it's a true story...

Very naive of me, but can I ask why your heart used to sink at seeing a rainbow?

I see a rainbow as just that, a rainbow. Something I see when it is both raining and sunny.

It's meaning never changed for me ..

Go on - you've piqued my interest - what is it's "meaning" (to you)?

I thought this very thing yesterday.
I'm happy to see it used as just a lovely thing- no message!