Please don't put a rainbow in your window!

[RuffleCrow]

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.

And the fact that you are now, at a crucial time, being jollied- by whom, exactly? Who is telling you to do this? To display a rainbow, a divisive symbol, in the window of your home?

Who told you to put a rainbow in the window of your house?

Other people who find it nice.

Again. Who is doing this with the children?

Nefarious sneaky men?

Or parents (probably predominantly mothers) at home with the arts and crafts box who has a fun morning and then need to wash up the mess.

Seriously. MN is the reason I don't associate with feminism anymore.

I also know more women who've been turned away by it.

Hang on, OP. Aren't you part of the crowd on FWR who like to hold forth about how trans people have no right to police the tastes, and opinions of others, and how only weak people could be triggered by misgendering and normal people are resilient enough to just get on with their lives....

...and now you're telling us you're triggered by the sight of a sodding rainbow? I mean, first of all, it's nonsense but don't you see the gigantic pile of bullshit hypocrisy there?

The rainbow symbol is now a symbol of men's domination over lesbiant women and straight women. The rainbow symbol, for several years now, serves men's domination iver women and children.

Like I said please have a read of this Mumsnet thread:

If any of you have some spare time - this Mumsnet thread is worth a read, 'Break it down for me':
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3145470-Break-it-down-for-me?pg=1

A comprehensive explanation why the fucking rainbow doesn't work for me and my children and my friends, any more. The rainbow symbol has not been harmless for a few years, now.

Yea....No.

A rainbow is a pretty thing in the sky that makes kids happy and has a pit of gold at the end.

Stop trying to ruin everything.

Yes, a pretty thing in the sky, a tale, a natural phenomenon! Yes, Lovely! I agree!

But the rainbow banner has been taken over, years ago, by male activists.

I don't blame you for not knowing this, because it has been very subtle.

Taken over but yet very subtle

No I do know. I've seen your argument. I just think you're a bit of a nut job and don't subscribe to your biased.

You keep yapping about this BS and you're going to keep pushing people further and further away.

I wonder how many women on MN have blocked the feminist board.

You're putting a rainbow flag in your house window, because you have children, and you think it's cute and life-affirming??

Give it a few days, and you'll be targeted.

I know I shouldn't....I really really know I shouldn't feed it. But....

Targeted by whom?

Give it - oooh - a week.

Don't put a rainbow in your window, because if you do, you are flagging that you don't care at all about children's rights.

Can something be deemed "taken over" if only a tiny number of people know it? I feel like I could ask every single person I know and not a single one of them would say oh yes the rainbow is a symbol of the oppression of women and lesbians by radical transgender activists. So it's been a pretty poor takeover in that respect.

Right.... let me just finish folding my tin hat.

Who am I advertising this to and what will they be doing?

Lol. Just when you thought this thread couldn't get any weirder.

It looks like the rainbows in windows will soon take over the previous meaning.
In any case, it's a specific type of rainbow.
The UK ones seem to be missing the "it will get better message".

You'll be seeing a lot more, op.
www.smoothradio.com/news/coronavirus/why-people-are-putting-rainbows-in-windows/

Sometimes you really have to wonder don't you?

It's a FUCKING RAINBOW PAINTED BY MY KIDS!

Take your paranoia and shove it.

Who suggested to you that your kids paint a rainbow?

Where did you read that your kids should paint a rainbow? And that you should display it in a window of your house?

FFS 🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦

Who told you to skip your meds this morning?

I read about putting mine up on We R Womenz 2.com

Who suggested to you that your kids paint a rainbow?

Who suggested to you to post on the internet?

Who told your kids to start painting rainbows and displaying them in the windows of your house? Was that a spontaneous suggestion from you or your kids?

Or did you read it on social media first, and thought, "Rainbows are pretty!" And did not think any more about it.

But you did not realise that the rainbow flag is now a men's rights symbol. And more particularly, a men's sexual rights campaign. That's what the rainbow stands for now, in 2020.