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.

You’re literally trying to bully and guilt trip people into taking rainbows down because they hurt your feelings

This made me giggle!
@RuffleCrow please say out loud, “Rainbows hurt my feelings”

Honestly... how ridiculous do you sound. Hilarious!!!

A rainbow also means a child after a loss.... a rainbow means many things and it's a great idea what children are doing we have lots in windows in our street.

Symbols means different things to different people.

Someone mentioned Bounty Bars upthread. “Bounty Bar” has a history of being used as racial slur (to mean brown people who “act white”), clearly that doesn’t mean anyone who eats Bounty is racist!

Someone else mentioned the large yellow Smilie face. For me and some others of my generation that’s associated with E and rave culture, for most people it’s just a nice smilie face.

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

Don't be so fucking stupid.

@OccasionalKite are you honestly saying that nefarious men will come a-knocking because someone’s kid stuck a picture of a rainbow up?

Like, they’re literally going to cruise neighbourhoods for rainbow clad houses? And do what? What will they do then?

Oppress them, duh!

"those in the LGB community."

You are literally trying to take the T out of LGBT.

But there is no transphobia on mumsnet.

You are literally trying to take the T out of LGBT
Yes, that is what OP is doing - she believes that trans people are oppressing the LGB community and using the rainbow flag to get away with it.

This thread is classic Mumsnet 😂

@Bishybarnybee in fairness it’s not transphobic because OP feels the trans community are being oppressive to the LGB community.

Of course it's transphobic

@OhCaptain That's not transphobic? 😂
This thread is confusing :D

I never knew that about a bounty bar?

Neither did I (it was me who got told off). I really did choke on one on the street and have a stranger stop to ask if I was ok.

Without a rainbow in the window, you can pretty much tell the houses that have kids in by the toys in the windows, scooters in the gardens etc.

I'm beginning to think this is just a wind up by people with way too much time on their hands.

Ok OP tell the sky and the weather not to make a rainbow in case it makes a selection of people sad.... Whereas it cheers up pretty much most of the world when one appears!

What if your house has a rainbow in the window but Pampas grass on the front lawn? What does that mean?

Jesus there are a lot of extremely bonkers people around who would take offence at a paper bag, grow up and realise this shit isn't about you and stop making a big deal about little children painting a rainbow. The whole world is in a pandemic we are in lockdown yet the crazies are trying to pick a fight in an empty room
Completely fucking batshit

I never knew that about a bounty bar?

See also Choc Ice: Brown on the outside, white on the inside.

Rio Ferdinand described Ashley Cole thus.

To be fair, Cole did suddenly go selectively and conveniently deaf when stood next to John Terry when Terry called Anton Ferdinand 'a fucking black cunt'.

I don’t think it’s transphobic to leave the T out of LGBT if you’re specifically talking about the T, is it?!

It was ok in the end - the poster who told me off and I had a nice chat about it in the end. Other posters did wade in to say they were being a bit rough on me and I guess we all sometimes take things the wrong way. It definitely wasn’t intended in any way other than ‘don’t try to shove a whole chocolate bar in your mouth!’.

Reminds me of an ex colleague (A) who was very sensitive to anything potentially racist. She really did scrutinise things to the enth degree! Another colleague (B) came in with a donation that she wasn’t sure she should accept (it was bordering on a bribe to turn a blind eye to something) and B used an expression (I really can’t remember) that made the A clam up and give her the squint eye. When the other colleague left she said ‘did you hear that?’. I asked what and she declared that the expression was racist and she was going to talk to our boss about it.

I’m quite imaginative but couldn’t for the life of me make out what it could have meant - I even Googled it and there was zero mention of it in any negative way.

I ended up asking her what it mean - ‘I don’t know but it sounded like it could be racist’.

Eye/ear of the beholder and all that.

Wizard of Oz too

I may crochet a rainbow for my front window.

Symbol of hope and God's covenant to man

Hope this thread is a wind up

Haven't RFTF but

I am very GC and have seen, and understand to an extent, the conversations on here about how the 'rainbow' has changed in recent times and how some women might feel a bit threatened by it, because of the trans agenda etc etc.

Having said that

This OP is one of the most ridiculous I have ever seen on MN and to be honest makes you just as bad as the 'look at me, I'm the mostest oppressed ever, everything I don't like is literal violence' TRA batshittery that we come across all the time.

I didn't even bother opening this thread before because I assumed it was going to be about not encouraging kids to go out and about to find rainbows in windows!

But then only a massively dim bulb with no appreciation of context or intent would consider the mere mention of these confectionery goods as racist. 'Are there any Choc ices in the fridge? - Fine. He'll sell out any black person to curry favour with white people, he's a total Choc ice' - not fine.