Trans/pride flag in children's stickers

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This was included in a pack of squishmallow stickers... why???
AIBU or is this totally wrong ??

So sorry it happened @Boiledbeetle and you're still going through it.

DBS checks can be very flaky, my mother says she had a DBS check and they checked my father instead and cleared her based on his data! My parents have similar initials and she could see the data was wrong. Even at their best DBS checks are only a partial filter, they do filter out some of the scum but a lot still gets through. The idea that women are safe with someone because he has been DBS checked or has a nice caring job is simply false. Some very nasty people are attracted to nice caring jobs.

Absolutely 💯 agree

Jesus Christ Boiled, that's awful, What the fuck is wrong with some men?

I am not quite understanding why people put so much confidence in a DBS check.

I am not sure they are there to weed out the pervs anymore, not now that people can lie about their identity with impunity, change fundamental documents, claim human rights and data protection/privacy violations to deflect straightforward questions about their past activities,right to be forgotten etc. I think the DBS check has now become nothing more than a box ticking/arse covering mechanism by the institution needing the volunteers/employees; so, in the event of a vulnerable person coming to harm, they can say they did what they were supposed to do under the safeguarding rules, and have thus discharged their duty of care and are liability free.

💐@Boiledbeetle what happened to you sounds utterly horrifying. You are incredibly brave and tenacious, I hope you get justice soon.

I don't know, where i work we had an employee with child abuse images and the police told us straight away. Adult care.

That’s not the trans flag. It’s the progress pride flag. The trans flag is horizontal blue, pink and white stripes.

Squishmallows have also significantly broadened their target age range due to their popularity among young adults and older.

Don’t see the issue. Brands don’t exist for your personal ethos.

Sure it's been said but:

Someone:
"Kids won't be influenced by stickers"

That same someone:
"Let's put stickers in a pack for kids to influence them"

Trying to encourage kids to accept different sexualities and identities to normalize them...
Fine, unfortunately, it brings with it male Fetishists and MAPs

@Didimum - unfortunately the trans part of that flag is the only bit that really matters. For example, it trumps the rights of lesbians to be solely female-sex-attracted - they are told to ‘get over their genital fetish’ and include penis-having, male-born ‘lesbians’ in their dating pool. They aren’t allowed to have exclusively female clubs or groups - that is exclusionary.

@Didimum

That’s not the trans flag. It’s the progress pride flag. The trans flag is horizontal blue, pink and white stripes.

Like this?

And before any one denies that lesbians are being directly influenced by this, even two years ago I overheard a group of 14/15 year old lesbians reprimand any in the group who said they wouldn’t date a person with a dick. They were called transphobic. Teenaged girls are picking this up and groups such as stonewall are not helping when their exCEO was heavily publicised as saying that lesbians who didn’t include male trans people in their dating pool were sexual racists. And other comments.

So, this is most definitely filtering down to children.

Yes I do know there is an obligation to inform employers, that’s why I stated I assume they are suspended when they are charged.

My point is there are rapists in every profession so I don’t assume any grouping of males are a sacred caste who are no risk to women and that includes ambulance workers.

I also know statistically most rapes are not reported and when reported many are not charged due to lack of independent proof (as it is often a crime where it is one persons word against another) and even if charged many cases fail to convict. So I know there are many more rapists in the male population than there are convicted rapists.

You can reach whatever illogical conclusions as to which groups of males can automatically be judged as safe for yourself. Just don’t make them for anyone else, we’re free to disagree with you just as you are free to disagree with me.

The image as a whole within the cat's belly is the progress pride flag.

This isn't relevant to my comment – I didn't say trans wasn't represented on the flag, I just pointed out that it is not the trans flag, that is it the progress pride flag. The rest of my comment was about the squishmallow brand.

yes trained

Watching the contortions people go through to group some males into some kind of special safeguarding category is always interesting. You would absolutely think that society would have decreed priests, male nurses, male doctors and teachers to be groups that should bypass safeguarding using the argument that was put forward. Oh... that is right... for a while there society DID make some of those groups exceptions for safeguarding and even know in this supposed better informed era we are still getting males from these groups committing sex crimes.

Until recently, THOSE males who are not predatory and DBA checked were still considered not acceptable to enter female single sex spaces. Why? Because they are MALE people. And ALL male people were excluded over about 8 years old regardless of not once harming a woman or girl.

It really doesn't matter how people parse the overall population of male people. No exceptions should be made as history should have fucking taught us.

Lesbian - a sexual orientation
Gay - a sexual orientation
Bisexual - a sexual orientation
Transgender - I don't know

Why do kids need to know anything about sexualities? Plenty of time to learn about that when they're older.

The sticker is not just a rainbow, the flag is the official Pride Progress Flag so it is specifically about LGBT+, which may be inappropriate early sexualisation for kids of a certain age.

The progress flag represents queer theory. Queer theory is misogynistic, homophobic, paedophilic and racist bullshit.

It's an offence to any decent human being who knows what it actually stands for instead of the "inclusive" propaganda they have been spoon feeding you.

It has no business being anywhere near children.

Don’t buy squishmallows brand items then, I guess.

She can still have an opinion about it, though. Just like you can.

@Mamasharp97 Your comment is the ignorant one, because transwomen are men. No one can change sex. 92% of transmen retain their penis and testicles. Therefore, they have no right being in women and girls' safe single sex spaces. They are men in a dress. They are NOT women. Lipstick on a pig doesn't mean it's no longer a pig as the saying goes.

You are missinformed and lied to by a blog with an agenda. There is no genetic links to transgenderism. Ask any Biologist. You're buying 'junk science' that is simply not true. There is also no way a man can turn into a woman. Your sex is coded in your DNA and chromosomes. They cannot be altered. I'm sorry you've been lied to.

It is a religious belief. The eminent Biologist (and atheist) Richard Dawkins has said it's a religious ideology, a 'cult'. And he's right. I trust an actual, literal, real Biologist over someone who has only just now stated they have PhD, but never said that in all the previous threads or discussion. Hmmmm. I do believe you work with trans people, but you are getting increasingly desperate so made the PhD thing up. It's especially obvious since you refuse to post one single skerrick of evidence to back up your claims. Surely you'd have at least one link bookmarked that you can give us. So why won't you? The answer, is obvious.

Lastly, taking things 'out of context'? You're the master at doing that, and reporting posts while doing so. That he actually said that, regardless of 'context' (and what possible 'context' could there be to saying you want to be treated like that?), should concern everyone. There is no possible 'context' for that statement he made, that would excuse it. None whatsoever. And you and I both know it only you're not big enough to admit it.

As Richard Dawkins says, it is indeed a religious belief. It is not comparable to being gay, but I understand why you need to say it is. Gay people didn't; enforce people to call them something they're not, police language, get words re-defined, get forms changed with terms that dehumanise others, hijack the flag of another marginalised group, get people sacked for denying science etc etc etc. They are not even remotely comparable and you know it.

Transwomen are men so as much a risk as all other men, in fact, statistically they commit sex offences 5 times greater than 'cis' men. Any man that puts on a dress and thinks he has a right to invade womens spaces, with no regard to how women and girls feel, IS a Toxic Male.

Yes, we're all "hysterical" women. And you can't see the misogyny @StaunchMomma (clearly not a staunchfeminist).