Does anybody else dislike Pride?

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Does anybody else dislike Pride?

We have one in our town for the second year running, and it's just really off.

Now before I get the "don't be homophobic comments" I am very much live and let live.

It's just that it can be very adult in the middle of the day.

I can’t wait for the next thread I see complaining about trans men in women’s spaces… I’ll just refer them to this thread and point out some of the comments would suggest to just stay away from from the female spaces if somethings happening you don’t like or just look away.

Our local Pride March walks through the town centre on a Saturday morning. My kids and I happened to see the last one as we left the library. Luckily, ours was fine and there was no bondage gear or inappropriate sexual behaviour to be seen.

It's parental responsibility. .

Same as holding a hand to cross the road. That's fuck all to do with me.
Kid frightened of fireworks? You don't go to a firework display then.
Child wants to watch a scary movie? Parent's decide. Why should a pride event be any different?

Your choice to have a child, your choice to decide where they go when young. Your choice to go close up to a pride event enough for the children to see dildos. Your choice. Stop whining and being entitled

Yeah, heterosexuals have it pretty bad at the moment

I used to be a bit whatever about it, didn’t really give it much thought.

Last year I held a stall at our local pride event with work and I have to say it was the nicest day. It was so lovely to see people enjoying themselves, there was no nastiness and people could just be who they wanted to be.

As opposed to the actual paedophiles running Pride who are all referenced above.

You know thats utter tosh, don't know why you wrote it to be honest. Not even 'edgy'.

As a celebration of the progress made in equalities in this country - all good! Celebrate the equal marriage maws etc. As a reminder that people round the world are still persecuted for sexuality and a call for action - all good - let's have more of that, please.
As a joyful celebration of same sex love - great.

As a public celebration and flaunting of sexual practices including kinks and fetishes - NO. Just fucking stop it.

It’s always interesting to me though that the hardest of feminists will excuse those men if they’re under the pride banner, even if they’re straight. It’s such a weird mental gymnastic…

Man gets his dick out in changing room - bad.
Man gets dick out without asking - bad.

Man wearing dress gets dick out in changing room - Brave
Man shows his dick, openly displays fetish at a daytime festival - Brave

I am sorry you are wrong, protection of children is for society.

It’s something I previously felt support for, but not any more. It started as a serious campaign for equality, and I think it’s turned into a trashy event that is just competing within itself to create as much shock value as possible.

Of course, there will still be some people involved who are there for the original reasons and so I’m not against everyone who gets involved, but I’m against the extremes of it. The bondage gear etc shouldn’t be necessary. Gay rights started as wanting the same rights as heterosexuals…things such as marriage and being able to share a home and not having to keep relationships secret for fear of discrimination….what has bondage or nudity in the street got to do with celebrating that?

I think in some ways it’s becoming a backwards step, the majority of gay people are not flamboyant extroverts who want to be overtly sexual in public, they are ordinary people living in private monogamous relationships and dressing the same as their heterosexual counterparts. Pride appears to have been hi-jacked and turned into a celebration of the wacky and sexually deviant, rather than a celebration of equality. It also went from a one-day event into a whole month of festivities, with businesses, tv channels and businesses feeling the need to put their flags out in support of people’s right to parade the streets in bondage gear, the whole thing has veered towards something that doesn’t really represent the general gay population.

No, it's not entirely down to society. Stop being an entitled snowflake and step up and parent.

While having children is a personal choice, it doesn't make your choice of what others do of any importance when it comes to Pride and other things you make a personal objection to. You're not important, you are just a parent. So go parent.

I do parent, but I also care about other children that aren't mine.

I am sorry you don't.

Have a good day.

My children may well have got it wrong. They are usually pretty good at knowing the flags though.

The proportion of Pride officers who have been arrested for child sex offences seems extraordinarily high compared to the general population.

You say it’s not because gay people have a higher base rate (fine). In that case the problem seems to be Pride specifically. Wouldn’t you want to root that out?

It’s absolutely not easy to avoid if you live on route.

Agreed.

Those same businesses don’t put their money where their mouth is though - especially on social media. Check any large company, pride flag for western accounts and no mention on accounts for the Middle East for example.

It’s purely a virtue signalling exercise.

You can buy bisexual and homophobic... Doesn't exclude you... smh

I have an issue with both.
They are equally performative and intolerant of criticism. As we see here.

Entitled, you are seriously entitled.
And no wonder we are getting hideous children now, ones that can't cope with anything.

I used to go when it was in the park up the road from me as there were lots of stalls, nice food and live music. Good day out in the middle of summer, what's not to like? Now it is a parade in town so I don't bother but it is nice to see the photos in the local press. Can't say I have ever thought about it from a negative point of view.

Hard not to do when it's parading down the main street of your city and you just came to do some shopping.

Have a lovely day.

I argued on a different thread recently that liberal humanism has contributed to the downfall of society. The term "it takes a village" is more than just having parents and people you know that are there to help - it's also about societal engagement.

Society needs to be a role model.

If you’re having to flaunt your sexual desires / fetish around kids in public and think they should just ‘take it’ and ‘handle it’ then you’re a walking red flag.