Rainbow colours everywhere

[TalkToTheHand123]

Rainbows everywhere. Hi. I walked into the office building yesterday and rainbow stuff everywhere. Nearby nursery has all rainbow colours on fencing and there was an ambulance with rainbow colours. A bit ridiculous?

Why celebrate it at all? Nothing wrong with being gay but why stuff it down our throats?

It's just so tiresome. Treating it as "special" ultimately contributes to "othering" homosexuality rather than normalising it.

One doesn't tend to see huge banners in Tesco for Women's History Month etc.

Absolute rubbish and not how my gay son who was subjected to homophobic bullying mercilessly throughout school sees it. His mental health was destroyed as a result. Pride makes helps him reduce the shame he feels for being gay. It’s hugely beneficial. I commute through a town and a city. I’ve not seen one pride flag but oodles of England and Union Jack flags hung from lamp posts and shops. They’ve been there for months, complete stretches of the road. That’s shoving something down our throats!

We stop celebrating being ourselves when we are actually accepted. in the moment, being lgbt+ is not accepted, just barely tolerated.
Kids still get routinely bullied for being lgbt+
The rainbow lets us know we are (relatively) safe, we are seen. It is incredibly important.
Heterosexuality is everywhere - we are not.

That's ok as it's in private.

And now heterosexuality is being discriminated against. People are being excluded from jobs and events due to being heterosexual.

According to this men are discriminated from jobs and events in favour of women - same principle ! Away with all this support! Minorities need support - it is incredibly hard to constantly be belittled, excluded, harassed and bullied. Count yourself lucky you haven’t experienced it

I will be hanging it so it’s visible from the street. Still ok, as it’s my house!

Sorry what events are these?

What I think so many people object to (including many LGB people) is not pride month but what it has turned in to.

Late to this but

Hysterical in its ridiculousness. Got any evidence for such a ludicrous accusation?

I've said this on another thread so forgive me if you've read it. I worked in police admin and was dealing with a member of the public. He told me he'd love to join the police but couldn't as he was a white man. I said it was odd as I'd just been dealing with our new allocation of probationary officers, the majority were white men. He refused to believe me, not sure why I'd lie. Sometimes people find a certain narrative convenient

Well I've seen them for VE day, Christmas, Eid, Hannukah, royal weddings. All sorts, just encouraging you to buy something. Maybe Women's History Month needs to be more proactive?

Always. I never fail to be shocked when people can't do it, they get it wrong, or have to recite a mnemonic.

Spectrum themes were a big thing in the 80s i remeber seeing them all over the place as a little kid, everyone loves a rainbow.

No, not ridiculous at all.

What now? Any examples you could share?

Pull the other one

Typical snowflake conservative anti-free speech offended by everything nonsense from the OP

Can you support this with any evidence or examples?

Because people like you continue to use phrases like ‘stuff it down our throats’. How is that being done exactly?

I've been in meeting where I've been asked indirectly to recommend people from groups of people like these to help promote the business's diversity image.

I don't understand how making sure that people of all different backgrounds are inculuded is the same as saying hetro / white people aren't welcome.

Like when a company makes a big deal about how many Board members are female, it shouldn't make a man feel he's been unfaily excluded. That's just egality.

That’s not evidence to support the claims you made.
If your organisation has evidence that particular groups are underrepresented then it is perfectly acceptable to put in place actions to address this.
That means it is fine to specifically target advertising and information at underrepresented groups.
That doesn’t mean straight people are being discriminated against- that would be unlawful. It means that an organisation is addressing underrepresentation.

This is not evidence that heterosexual people are now being discriminated against.

Convincing 🙄