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.

Get a life.

And by putting rainbows in your windows, you are now making yourselves vulnerable to men who will look at your rainbows and spot a naive person, and turn up at your doors, asking if they can do anything to help you, in this time of crisis.

Shudder.

Don't put rainbows in your windows. Keep yourself and your child/children safe from exploitation in times of crisis.

Grow up and get a grip.

Sometimes, a rainbow is just a rainbow. No one owns them.

Fuck sake! It's for little children to get some joy in their little lives right now. Sorry OP, but you need to grow up. Life is shit enough for everyone right now without some misappropriation of a symbol of love and hope for... something the opposite, but what exactly

🤣🤣🤣 yeah men are going to turn up on the doorstep after spotting a rainbow in the window

For example, have a read of this Mumsnet thread:

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3145470-Break-it-down-for-me?pg=1

Christ on a bike! Does anyone remember when a rainbow was just a rainbow? A coloured thing in the sky - that is simple for young children to draw?

Get a grip OP! Not everything is about you

Yup - read it. Still think children drawing rainbows is fine (along with 92% of voting posters)

I think somebody needs their antipsychotic meds pronto.

Hmm. I wonder why men's rights activists seek to co-opt a symbol that is simple for children, eh?

So cute pics of rainbows in windows is a sign to child abusers. Like pampas grass for paedos.

Ridiculous.

A rainbow has ALWAYS been a sign of hope.

In our brave new world a rainbow will mean it is raining and sunny at the same time.

Every house with a rainbow in a window - in these troubled times - indicates itself as a vulnerable household with children, ripe for exploitation, because of naivety. Be very careful.

This is batshit crazy. There is something very wrong if you are so fragile that a child’s drawing upsets you. Do you seriously expect other people, especially children, to change their behaviour to suit you? To me that is what certain members of the LGBT community do with their insistence that we change the meaning of language and ignore scientific facts in order to validate their identity. These are the very people and the very behaviour you are complaining about! Like them, you are the definition of a snowflake.

Every house with a rainbow in a window - in these troubled times - indicates itself as a vulnerable household with children, ripe for exploitation, because of naivety. Be very careful..

Ríiiiiggghhht. If you say so. (Backs slowly away)

If you have a good look into the current, 2020, symbolism of the fucking rainbow - it reveals a hatred of women.

The rainbow, in 2020, is a men's rights symbol.

Sorry, but you don't get to say what I put in my windows.

You'll all probably start understanding, in a few months' time!

The rainbow, in 2020, is a men's rights symbol.

Well, speaking as a man, I never knew that! Where do you get that idea from?

Fine, no probs! You carry on displaying a men's rights symbol!

You'll all probably start understanding, in a few months' time!

No. You'll still be spouting nonsense and 99.99% of people will walk past a child's drawing.of rainbow and think 'that's nice.'

The rainbow in 2020 is a Men’s rights symbol seriously wtaf
Only gay bi queer or trans men afaik

Rainbows belong to everyone but also denote that we are allies and friends to all sexuality

If anyone wants to out themselves as a happy-clappy who is naive enough to go and endanger their own family - by posting a picture in their window, that they don't even understand the symbolism of it, let alone the danger.... I'm trying to point out the danger to your children, of what you are doing.

If you are at least willing to think about things, then please have a read of:

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3145470-Break-it-down-for-me?pg=1