Is there less Rainbows Pride marketing shizzle this year?

Well, hardly surprising if she's transphobic. The progressive kids will be avoiding her like the plague.

@changingofthenameagain I very rarely post these days on fwr threads due to personal insults (I have a trans family member) however I have never seen any homophobic comments.
Depending on your age we all just went about our business and if you encountered a person in the loo who you thought might be a transsexual we just ignored it. Todays aggressive and threatening element have made it hard for theirselves. We are what we were born as, dresses etc doesn't a woman make. Ditto for transmen.
We have many angry women hating men in the world and their wars are far more important than a bloke in a frock. Time to grow up and move on. Thankfully I see that happening.

I used the website on a laptop to do a grocery order earlier today and there are small rainbow coloured dashes under the main Tesco logo.

It’s been absolutely fine to be gay in the UK for decades now. Pride was hijacked by gimp masks and men in dresses. Thankfully, aside from the Waitrose app (now deleted) most companies seem to have recognised this, this year.

There was a thread on (I think) AIBU the other day, about an OP who said she felt uncomfortable with a Pride event because of the level of male fetish-wear on display. And while several of the comments scolded her (and some told her not to go into town if she felt that way), the vote was starkly in her favour – which surprised me. A lot of people are thinking this, even if they're not saying it.

I think there is less shizzle and I’m glad of it. My gay/bi friends and I have found all this, as a previous contributor eruditely put it, “load of grasping, immoral, virtue-signalling businesses…quite happy to jump on a bandwagon,” and their shizzle in recent years pathetic. Isn’t it telling one of the first things I thought of when I read this thread’s title was M&S’s LGBT sandwich and lo and behold it’s mentioned in the third post?

I didn’t even have to add a comment when I forwarded M&S’s marketing spiel about that to my friends. I knew how they’d feel about it. The replies I received were variations on the themes of, “oh FFS,” and, “patronising bullshit,” which it was.
One of my friends replied back, “why don’t they just have a campaign about a special range of fairy cakes to mark Pride month?” We laughed about that but I could have actually seen that happening.

I'm raising a lesbian DD who speaks clearly and passionately about why the progress flag isn't progress at all for myriad reasons. She also campaigns vociferously to raise awareness of rainbow capitalism and how many of these behemoths are ableist and hiding behind flags as a veneer or progress.

Not sure she'd appreciate your sweeping generalisations about "younger generations" tbh.

I do hope you recover from this terrible news of acceptance, respect and happiness xx

Homophobia, transphobia, biphobia, acephobia & interphobia aren't progress.

The rainbows are there if you look, perhaps smaller but there, in even more places than before. Far more places use the Progress flag than a simple rainbow, too.

And younger generations are many times more tolerant, inclusive and diverse than older ones, with a much larger percentage identifying as LGBTQIA+ than ever. They're less likely to be ableist too. Sorry about that.

I wonder if the decisions for e.g. supermarkets to do rainbow shizzle are made regionally? I haven't seen a wink of it. I live in an area where most folk would give it a hard eyeroll though.

To answer your question, NO we are not homophobic. Have you not seen what the TRAs have done for the Pride movement over the last decade?

Ooh. I think Ill swap allegiance from Sainsbury's- and tell them why. Am a bit cross about their decision to phase out brown eggs to go net zero. Apparently white eggs come from smaller birds and so have a lower carbon footprint.

But there are some absolute lunatics on this thread who make me very uncomfortable

If you want respect try showing some.

Mumsnet is meant to be a place for women to be supportive of and kind to each other, there’s a few people here who ought to remember that.

Do you think slinging out a few shouty posts accusing posters on this thread of hatred and being anti-trans and demanding everyone answer your question RIGHT NOW was kind?

Take your own advice.

Surely objecting to the presence of the so called ‘progress’ pride flag on the grounds that it is homophobic would give you the clue that we are not homophobic?

But there are some absolute lunatics on this thread who make me very uncomfortable

Who are the ‘absolute lunatics’ you are referring to?

Obviously not, try reading my earlier posts on this actual thread maybe?

It’s the exact opposite of homophobia on this board. People are absolutely wanting to ensure the rights of LGB people are maintained and respected. At all times. Hence the sadness of the abuse of the pride flag and concept.

That’s all I wanted to know.

it was really a very simple question which just needed a simple answer, not a load of stupid and/or catty comments.

Mumsnet is meant to be a place for women to be supportive of and kind to each other, there’s a few people here who ought to remember that.

I’ve just come back from my local Sainsbury’s ‘superstore’ ie big, noticed the handsets but there was nothing else, no bunting, no posters, nothing.

I’ll go to the other Sainsbury’s (which is twice the size) and see what’s going on there next week.

Some man who now presents as a woman has nothing to do with my son, but it truly seems to me that there are far too many people clearly too blinkered to see that.

You are wrong @changingofthenameagain
Many people on this board support LGB without the T

Well, you could try reading a few threads, hanging around a bit, getting to recognise individual posters. Normal getting to know a community kind of things.

If you can't be bothered with all that and just want to waft in and make nasty insinuations, then you are very likely to do what you have just done, and say something silly.

Most people on here aren't going to bother to virtue-signal I Am Not Homophobic, because they take that as read.

Quite the opposite, you will find MN is pro women/girls and supports the LGB community.

But if you haven't got the time then maybe wait until you do?

No, mumsnet is not seeking to bring down the LGB community.

Glad we got that cleared up.

Try reading and understanding instead of demanding answers and slinging out insults?

Just a thought

How would I know?