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?

Please explain why it's ridiculous

Ah well, not so in my neck of the woods.

I love Kris and Dave from Detroit. They’re so funny and lovely human beings/ old yam tit haters. They put up an annual mahoosive pride arch on their house to piss off the LGBT and rainbow trolls.

https://pridesource.com/article/kris-and-dave-2

What?

I am sorry but "boo hoo soldiers" is a vile thing to post, probably the most disgusting and unnecessary comment I have read

Yep let's celebrate men having sex or changing sex, or wearing nappies or bondage gear. Sounds fair enough to me as a woman.

😁 Oh, now that sounds better.
I'll be loitering round the Lord of The Rings float with Aragorn and Boromir 😁

I have to say that I haven't noticed this at all in my local LGB community. Well, we're very much an LGBT community and have been for a long time, but for comparison's sake I mean that my LGB friends and acquaintances are still very supportive of both pride month and our local pride parade.

We have a strong lesbian presence within our local community- including the head of the charity who organise the pride parade- and I've only really heard this sentiment online. Locally we get a couple of Facebook comments each year about the "inclusion of the T", but it seems to come mostly from straight people. Or at the very least, people who have never been known to be involved in the community even before the modern trans acceptance movement.

I'll be honest, that's what is starting to feel like a hijacking from my point of view, and the perspective of those I know and love.

This thread amazes me with its naivety. There was a time when the flag represented something good, recognition of diversity. However it has been kidnapped by a movement that has brought misery to many and whose active hate of women created a world where our hard fought for rights are being eroded. I can never look at the flag again and see harmony.

When I was at school it felt like pretty much everybody was rabidly homophobic. Now people - presumably by-and-large the same people - are falling over themselves to tell us how much they love gay people. How much of it is heartfelt and how much is just jumping from one bandwagon to another?

The conformity is a little embarrassing, I agree.

Think how much more one would learn if every brand took a different interesting cause with different values and ideas.

But it's all the same until the next current thing comes along.

Homophobia is still rampant in schools and elsewhere. Hence the significantly higher rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm, and suicidal ideation within the LGBT community.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdjpx7rnredo

I looked them up, hoping they lived in some deep conservative town and I could say that's the way to do it: actually standing up for values that matter to you against the crowd.

But no, they live in one of the most heavily Democratic areas in the US.

This is about as brave as hanging an enormous sign about how much you love the church in Salt Lake City, or a massive Trump banner in deep Maga country, or BLM in Portland, or the CCP in Zhongnanhai. Really sticking it to your neighbours who all agree with you.

Would it though?
I forsee floats about cars, engines, planes. sports and computer games.
Not every man is an incel

My five year old LOVES rainbows, and I’m prepared to bet that it has absolutely fuck all to do with LGBTQIA+ rights.

It’s to do with the fact that they’re fun bright colours. It’s the same reason she likes unicorns, and mermaids, and all manner of other glittery shit.

Why does it bother you so much?

Getting annoyed about rainbows is just bizarre.

Unless you are homophobic I can't see why people showing support and celebrating love in all its forms by displaying something colourful is an imposition on your daily life...

Is that a serious question?

There isn't Purple in the rainbow, it doesn't have it's own wavelength like Violet does.
Even EYFS curriculum is supposed to teach the real colours of the rainbow in Reception, all 7 of them.

The OP doesn’t mention Pride just rainbows and that’s precisely what I said too. Kids see rainbows and joy and colour and nothing else you honking weasel.

So colours? Or do you mean rainbows?

Either way, get a life

They used to sing the rainbow song at my eldest nursery and they are now bisexual.

This is true, I don't think they are linked though before anyone misses the tone of the message.

Yes, it fucking does...

Ramming views of tolerance and acceptance down people’s throats?

I also don’t see having 1 month to celebrate the community as forcing views. And if people were more tolerant and accepting, then it wouldn’t be needed.

Why is it so hard to celebrate and stand alongside people who are finding their voice.

I agree that there have been people who have used pride for personal agendas and fetishists who have behaved inappropriately - but then they aren’t representative of the majority.

Or, they have evolved with society and understand how wrong they were. I made fun of kids who were thought to be gay, laughed along with the entirely unacceptable jokes etc when I was at school 40 years ago. Thankfully I have grown to understand that was an incredibly shitty thing to do and my prejudice was entirely wrong, not least because my BIL is gay so it would make for an awkward family gathering. I welcome him and my gay friends and work colleagues into my home not because of any bandwagon but because I would be a terrible person if I didn’t.

Interesting.
I didn't know there was an official version.
I have always just known it as either
Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue and Purple
OR
Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo and Violet.
Although if you sing the song....
🎵🎶
Red and Yellow and Pink and Green....
Orange and Purple and Blue.
I Can Sing A Rainbow 🎵🎶
(I can't remember the last line)
Gosh this 🌈 malarkey is confusing.