A message to DPD

I’m sure they won’t miss your business when you stomp off in a mardy.

I agree with this (apart from C&A!) along with how my lovely lesbian cousin got screamed and sworn at at a Pride march for not wanting to go out with a transwoman man. That made me sad too

Think they need to learn their history tbf

Which hobby would that be exactly?

Oh god it’s a tiny picture on an app. Get a hobby.

This article explains the problem.

https://www.transgendertrend.com/lgbtq-pride-safeguarding-scandal/

@ArabellaScott going off topic I know but as a dog lover, what on earth is “puppy fetish” - my mind is well and truly boggled at that one

Quite. A pivot was clearly called for.

My DB is gay and in his 60s and hates the Pride stuff now. He was part of the original movement in the 1980s when it really was about being comfortable being out, and campaigning for equality and acceptance.

He says all of his gay friends feel that has been achieved and they just want to get on with their lives without Pride constantly banging on about it as if they are some kind of different special group.

The 'T' has tainted Pride for me. All I see now is the grooming of children with dangerous gender ideology and adult men with erections prancing around in leggings. And when I see companies supporting it, it makes me question the judgement of those managers endorsing it and whether that's a business I want to support.
It's a small-scale, personal protest, but as far as possible I avoid spending money with businesses displaying heavy Pride branding in June.

Interesting use of language by pp's. Suddenly the pride flag is all about gay people again and it's homophobic to grumble.

After about 10 years of it being all about the T+++ and the gay flag itself been bastardised to include everyone under the sun.

Sadly, I think homophobia is going to increase massively now.

Due to the fact that all fetishists, furries and sexual exhibitionists are all included under the pretty rainbow flag with the LGB.

Organisations (and handmaidens) are so busy virtue signalling to see the grassroots damage this is causing.

But, hey, as long as they all look good for social media.

That’s the old style rainbow that actually looks like a rainbow. Unlikely to be the one people are talking about.

Because none of those other things you listed are celebrated with flags and re painting police cars.

This does piss me off as well, they are a delivery service not a political organisation. I expect my parcels just to be delivered. I'd be equally as pissed off if they had clowns all over their site or whatever.
Everyone has to give a message now instead of just doing their bloody job.
I've got nothing against the gay community but I can't see what it's got to do with delivery of a parcel.
What are they actually saying? We are gay friendly? Well I'd take equality to be part of your job and a given, you don't need to advertise it. It's so patronising.
Bandwagon and let's jump on it.

Do they put rainbows on their Saudi branch?

No issue with pride month but I would genuinely be interested in the LGBTQIA+ credentials of DPD and other organisations who update their logo for a few weeks.

Rainbows are lovely. Pride rainbows now give me a kneejerk reaction of dismay. I see women being abused by people decked in rainbows. It makes me sad. Also reminds of C&A. I miss that shop. That also makes me sad.

I have a rainbow in my bedroom window.
Its not for pride i just like it when the sun gleam in.

It would be possible and perhaps useful for some research to see what the effects of Pride month actually are.

Maybe it gives a sense of solidarity to LGB people. Maybe it helps some corporations and organisations feel they are supporting LGB people.

What about the unintended consequences? Brand damage, compassion fatigue, pinkwashing.

And is it actually having an effect on homophobia? Is that reduced, unaffected, or even increased by Pride merch, rainbow flags and marches?

Could not agree more.

Actual homophobia is still out there. Not one rainbow will ever change that.

Homophobia is still, sadly, a problem that needs to be countered.

I don't think that 'progress pride' flags and pride marches are having much, if any, positive impact on that issue, though.

They're brightly coloured parades for hen parties, puppy fetishists, and people who want a bit of a spicy day out. Plus a bit of a rainbow washing opp for corporations.

Well clearly, yes.

Let me try and make it simpler for you.

The harm is people questioning the entire thing (pride month) via this thread.

The cause is performative rainbows on everything, which also does not have a positive (making the lives of gay people better) , to counter act the negative (peoplee being fed up with being force fed rainbows)

Does this even make sense to you?

That depends very much on the group.

This thread is literally causing harm to the cause of fairness and equality to gay people. Literally, right here.

It's not that the thread itself is wrong, or the OP, I agree with the OP.

But forcing rainbows onto everything does nothing, backfires and then we have conversations like this which we would be if we just focussed on treating gay people equally - instead of rainbows.