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No I don't want a pride sticker thank you, I just want my pint of milk

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AutisticLegoLover · 10/06/2023 22:30

I was asked at my local Co-op earlier if I wanted a pride sticker with my pint of milk. No, I don't. I just want to shop without pride this that and the other. It was the alphabet soup flag version. The overly enthusiastic young man was quite taken aback by my I certainly do not response but I am so fed up of it being everywhere and what does it even mean anymore? I'm all for everyone having equal human rights. That's it.
I've had so many emails from M&S, Waitrose, Co-op, and others all about supporting pride month. Vinted now flashes a rainbow heart before it turns red when I favourite items.
The young man in question above is far too over familiar and needs to tone it đown a bit from scarily wishing my teenager a pleasant existence to just normal pleasant customer service. I could have asked him what the sticker was all about and got into a discussion with him but that's not his job and I don't want to get banned 😁
The heat makes me cranky but I've seriously had enough of this now. Will it ever stop or will more and more be added to that rather full flag of many colours until the original meaning is completely lost? Will we ever be able to shop without identity politics coming into it?

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Ereshkigalangcleg · 11/06/2023 09:31

Why do most groups get a day but pride gets a month and why do the shops and big companies jump for pride but not anything else?

Because it's very low effort, inexpensive virtue signalling. The whole "Pride is a whole month" thing seems to have originated from America in recent years.

RudsyFarmer · 11/06/2023 09:30

It’s the pink pound talking and it’s about money as ALWAYS.

ilovesooty · 11/06/2023 09:27

Abhannmor · 11/06/2023 06:50

I haven't. If Pride marches were all about gay people I'd have reported it like a shot. But they aren't of course.

Don't be disingenuous Sooty. And stop with this cancelling crap. It's what brought us to this sorry pass in the first place.

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Thankfully MNHQ disagrees with you.

BernardBlacksMolluscs · 11/06/2023 09:26

argh, for gap please read gay

BernardBlacksMolluscs · 11/06/2023 09:26

and yet, and yet

I have met a handful of out gay men and lesbians through my career. assuming the numbers are correct (5% of men are gap, 2% (?) of women), I will have worked with far more, but I never knew because for whatever reason they never talked about their girlfriends and boyfriends, husbands and wives.

I'm not sure we're quite where we think we are with regard to acceptance of homosexuality

55balloons · 11/06/2023 09:24

FlamingMadKatie · 11/06/2023 09:17

@55balloons has put this perfectly. The successful and hard-fought integration of gay and lesbian individuals and families is in danger of losing ground by the tagging on of women-hating drag queens, sexual predators who claim to identify as women, floats carrying people in bondage gear etc.

Much harder to feel pride wearing a rainbow these days when its meaning has been subverted.

I really feel the tide is turning @FlamingMadKatie & a lot of TRA organisations are seriously pissed off about the lack of pride fanfare this year judging by some of the tweets.
I really commend the brands who are not virtue signalling this year.

BernardBlacksMolluscs · 11/06/2023 09:23

JacquelinePot · 11/06/2023 08:46

This may interest some posters, here.

Julie Bindel and Douglas Murray: What is the point of Pride?

thanks for that. Douglas Murray in fine ranting form

'Sorry love, you're not a celebrity, you're just gay!'

and Julie Bindel making very interesting points around how little Lesbians and Gay men really have in common, let alone the moveable feast of letters that comes after the 'B'

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AutisticLegoLover · 11/06/2023 09:21

So many posters have written exactly what I have failed to say. It's not about the LGB it's all the rest of the alphabet who have tagged on and taken over to the point it's not really about LGB anymore. Does any other group get a whole month or is it just pride?Why do most groups get a day but pride gets a month and why do the shops and big companies jump for pride but not anything else?

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55balloons · 11/06/2023 09:20

RudsyFarmer · 11/06/2023 08:51

I’ve not had one communication re. pride. Not one email nor a sticker. I must be in a very intolerant area.

Opposite in fact. You must live in a very tolerent area where lgb is completely normalised & people don't bat an eyelid..

My gay friends roll their eyes at the rainbow washing & virtue signalling. It does not define or represent them. Lgb & tq are entirely seperate groups, it's time for lgb to break away & not supporting pride is one of the ways they can seperate themselves.

FlamingMadKatie · 11/06/2023 09:17

@55balloons has put this perfectly. The successful and hard-fought integration of gay and lesbian individuals and families is in danger of losing ground by the tagging on of women-hating drag queens, sexual predators who claim to identify as women, floats carrying people in bondage gear etc.

Much harder to feel pride wearing a rainbow these days when its meaning has been subverted.

Crikeyalmighty · 11/06/2023 09:12

Oh and by the way it's not an age thing. My 25 year old London living son is labour voting and pretty 'right on' and he thinks it's a load of nonsense too geared these days to the 'look at me'

Crikeyalmighty · 11/06/2023 09:09

Or how about a 'mothers ' month !

Crikeyalmighty · 11/06/2023 09:08

@55balloons I rarely agree with the Telegraph or Mail but on this occasion I do. The expression 'can we please focus on other things' comes to mind.

LonginesPrime · 11/06/2023 09:00

RudsyFarmer · 11/06/2023 08:51

I’ve not had one communication re. pride. Not one email nor a sticker. I must be in a very intolerant area.

Or am area with not much commercial competition in terms of banks, supermarkets and other big businesses?

SkyandSurf · 11/06/2023 08:56

Was being offered a sticker the hardest thing that happened to you today?

Have a look at yourself

mondaytosunday · 11/06/2023 08:54

I don't see the issue. He offered, you declined, end of.

RudsyFarmer · 11/06/2023 08:51

I’ve not had one communication re. pride. Not one email nor a sticker. I must be in a very intolerant area.

HereIfYouNeedMe · 11/06/2023 08:42

Batmannequin · 11/06/2023 08:14

To be honest, I wish we could just abandon labels completely. Have people identify purely as themselves in whatever way they present. I think labels are divisive and confusing, especially for young people trying to find their place, wondering before they even know who they are, what box they fit into.

But how are corporations meant to sell boxes if they don't exist?

HereIfYouNeedMe · 11/06/2023 08:36

55balloons · 11/06/2023 07:10

@ilovesooty no I haven't. Thousands of Lgb people including close friends of mine are boycotting pride as if no longer represents them. Other groups have muscled in & taken over. Let's not pretend otherwise.
There's another thread on here about pride being toned down this year & many lgb posters commented about why they are no longer supporting. Have a read.

Can you link please x

BodegaSushi · 11/06/2023 08:35

Don't be disingenuous Sooty. And stop with this cancelling crap. It's what brought us to this sorry pass in the first place.

But you all just want to cancel pride 🥲

BodegaSushi · 11/06/2023 08:34

Crikeyalmighty · 11/06/2023 06:33

Ok - I may get bashed for this but I do get fed up of the whole LGBT scene constantly being in the news/media. I don't care a monkeys what peoples sexuality is, I'm not remotely homophobic- - and it all seems to be largely about Trans too- it's rarely about two sensible 58 year old women together etc . If the LGBT crowd quite rightly expect normalisation then don't go around constantly expecting to be made a giant fuss of.

You'll get praised for this and anointed leader

BodegaSushi · 11/06/2023 08:33

ilovesooty · 11/06/2023 06:02

I hope everyone who has seen that comment as homophobic has reported it as hate speech.

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I did. And it’s been deleted Halo

Abhannmor · 11/06/2023 08:30

Fairislefandango · 11/06/2023 07:45

????? How is being able to have a relationship with someone your own sex a kink?????

If Pride were still mostly about gay men and lesbians, you might have a point. But it clearly isn't.

Quite. The deleted post was poorly worded but we all know what she meant. Grotesque straight men parading their obsessions and fantasies.

Anyway it is gone now and they have achieved their aim. Sigh.

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