Please don't put a rainbow in your window!

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For the past few years the rainbow has sadly becomea symbol of silencing, sexual stereotyping and oppression for a lot of women and those in the LGB community. If you're thinking of putting one up, please think about how that may make women feel - many of whom have already experienced death threats and lost their friends and jobs thanks to those who wield the rainbow flag as a weapon.

I just saw two on my walk just now and it made me feel like shit. Not the intended effect I'm sure. Please consider something else: the sun coming out from a cloud, or a simple landscape. Thanks.

Children like rainbows. Considering it will be innocent kids trying to brighten up other kids lives it's fine...

What the actual hell? Op, I mean this in the kindest way, but you need help if you are getting triggered by a child's painting, made with the sole intention of spreading happiness. Your thinking is not healthy.

because i've explained that for me, they're a previously nice symbol that's been corrupted to intimidate women and children who disagree. And that i personally feel uncomfortable about some anonymous person deciding that all children should paint them and display them in their windows

You didn’t just say that they made you feel uncomfortable.

You told them not to do it.

They told you to pull your nose out of their business. If people’s windows make you feel uncomfortable, don’t look at them.

Zippy will be fuming 🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈

We're now putting rainbows in our window purely as a stuff you to this post. Why cant you just embrace the positivity instead of trying to spread negativity op 🙄

Dont you see op it is you corrupting an innocent symbol. Let it go let it go let it go......

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This has really really upset me. When my beautiful boy was stillborn my 6 year old used to look at rainbows in the sky as being a slide for his brother in heaven. For us a rainbow is a symbol of our boy. How DARE you try and make it all about YOU! You don’t own the rainbow and yes we have one in our window. We actually have lots of rainbow references in our house. I suppose you think we shouldn’t do that either should we?

Oh dear, op needed a pick me up, started a thread very loosely based on gender, hoping the usual total agreement would happen and give her a sneaky wee thrill in these dark times, and instead gets a backlash

Sorry op

Can we still sing a rainbow, or is that out of bounds too?

How on earth is a rainbow a symbol of sexual oppression or silencing. What utter rubbish. Rainbows are beautiful and children love them. Utter nonsense that they make women feel like sh**.

The meaning of rainbow has not feckin’ changed.

Are you on crack?

Im autistic so recognise it as my own positive symbol.
I also have two rainbow babies so again both a sad and positive connotation.

One of those rainbow babies is gay and is currrently helping her little brother paint a rainbow.

How you chose to see a rainbow is your own choice. But life will go a litle easier if you reclaim its negative to a positive.

The conspiratorial nature of these posts is very bizarre.

An "anonymous person" taking advantage of crisis to con people into making rainbows?

"Advertis[ing] that i have young dcs at home as society breaks down"?

It must be hard to live in such fear.

I'm GC but really.....

OP you are being ridiculous and selfish. This is not about YOU.

This has to be a wind up. Did I miss something ? Rainbows !!!!! I'm utterly lost now. If this is another way of denying gender and sexuality it's bizarre. Should I be upset about my scripture union bible, it has a rainbow 🌈 on the front.

Red and yellow and pink and green,
Orange and purple and blue.
I can sing a rainbow,
Sing a rainbow,
You can sing one too!

Listen with your eyes,
Listen with your eyes,
And sing everything you see.
You can sing a rainbow,
Sing a rainbow,
Sing a long with me.

Red and yellow and pink and green,
Orange and purple and blue.
You can sing a rainbow,
Sing a rainbow,
Now you've sung one too!

definitely UNREASONABLE. and a bit daft really. Have you not understood the significance of these rainbows? to provide something nice, fun, innocent, for socially isolated children to try to spot, on their rare trips out of their houses.
Rainbow is a good symbol. sorry if you feel otherwise, but imo you are U.

I love rainbows-they are pretty and colourful and make me feel happy. I would love to see them in windows at the moment!

Your post makes you sound really self-absorbed.

Maybe this is your symbol op

I typed as message to this when it first went up but it never posted. I haven't rtft but it obvious sparked a debate being 17 pages long! Heres my twopennth and it seemed replicated on the first couple of pages.

They're rainbows obviously drawn by children to try and do something positive in a negative time. There is no political agenda.

Rainbows are beautiful things in both natured and as part of childrens drawings they should be reclaimed in this sense not to make a point that is far beyond childrens perceptions of adult lives.

I too have started seeing the rainbow flag as a symbol of sexist opression, but not the arc of a rainbow in the sky, and therefore not a child's depiction of the latter.
My 12 YO kind of agrees with you though - she edged each corner of her rainbow collage with a black and white genderfree flag!

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WTF?! Get a grip. Rainbows are as natural as flowers and rain and the sun. The rainbows are for children to spot on walks whilst they can’t see their friends, making the most of a bad situation. Not making a bad situation all about you and your political causes. I’ve read some rubbish on here but this tops it.

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For heavens sake. Your average toddler really does not give a shit about your sexuality or how symbols have been called by certain groups...
It's something nice for them to do and look at when they get out for their hours daily bloody sunlight. Get a grip.