Has the Rainbow been rescued from mermaids and wokies by children showing support for the NHS?

[stumbledin]

When I first saw pictures of children's posters in windows of Rainbows for the NHS I had a negative reaction, ie in my mind it had become associated with woke transactivists and all the madness behind it.

But now I am thinking, not just good to support the NHS but when there is a shared purpose, people can quite easily shrug off the thought police who have tried to capture so much of our lives and how we express it.

Or does this just mean that for the very young rainbows are magic and princesses and unicorns are on duty in the NHS and if you want to change your sex wishes come true?

I am sure most have seen this but if not links to 2 news stories:

www.independent.co.uk/life-style/coronavirus-nhs-nightingale-hospital-rainbows-art-drawing-painting-a9452806.html

metro.co.uk/2020/03/25/coronavirus-uk-pictures-rainbows-12454395/

We now go live to Rod, Jane and Freddy.

No, it means rainbows are nice. No one owns them and the kids make them because it makes them happy
That's about it

This again They're rainbows. That kids have drawn.

I agree, no one owns a rainbow ffs.

I agree OP, Rainbows aren't owned by Mermaids and the like, as much as they'd like to think they are.
I'm glad the rainbow has been drawn to support the NHS, maybe now it can just go back to being a lovely thing admired by all, and not a symbol of LGBT and mermaids etc.

Even when it was a symbol of LGBT it was not owned by Mermaids and woke crowd. Plenty of lesbian or gay businesses used it that were not "woke".
Just because Mermaids and the like act as if they owned it, does not make it the case.

Rainbows are Def not owned by any one group, I hope that the reclaiming for all of the symbol continues after this.

I went for a short walk with my DC and we counted 38 in windows around here.

Rainbows are beautiful and hopeful, this is one reason they are being drawn. The other is to kill five minutes in lockdown!

I love that rainbows are our there as a sign of hope and thanks and that they can be used without association with those groups who think they own the symbol.

No one ever thought they were owned by one group except maybe Mermaids.
This is an issue made up by all of you.

It was appropriated for way too long and had been 'queered.'

It's a beautiful, universal symbol of hope and unity and cannot be owned by any one group or used for political and ideological purposes.

I don't think anywhere 'owns' the rainbow as a slogan but I used to associate it with the LGB community, the T activists shoved it on the end and took it over as well as the vile pink and blue stripeness. Heartening seeing it used as a symbol of gratitude to our NHS so underappreciated.

I'm so happy to see all the rainbows with the political baggage fallen away.

It has been used by LGB for a long time as a way to show that businesses, cafes and pubs are LGB friendly. In the 70's and 80s when this started, that was needed.

There was a thread recently where a load of pp screamed that if you put a rainbow drawing in your window loads of trans pedophiles will come knocking on your door asking to shag your toddler (and be extremely surprised if you say no) because it’s a “men’s sexual rights” symbol and indicates that you believe men have the right to rape anyone they want.

@Daten - are you having trouble figuring out how to name change?

It would appear most people are seeing it as a nice sign for children to connect with one another. I mean, a rainbow is nice. It's lovely to draw, it's cheerful, it's got a lot going for it.

It's absolutely true that draping whole buildings in rainbows, having them on your shoelaces or wrapping your sandwiches put a lot of people off it because of the controversy over transgenderism.

It will be interesting to see how it all shakes down after the crisis is over, but I have no doubt that transactivists will be trying to leverage its current popularity as we speak.

@Daten - are you having trouble figuring out how to name change?

Yes @daten I was wondering that.

There has been a quite a few new posters on FWR using regular names but changing one letter.

Should have said regular FWR posters names but changing them slightly.

Oh! I thought it was me in the wrong glasses. I'll triple check spellings for a while, just in case...

My mother pointed out that the LGBTQetc rainbow flag actually only uses 6 of the 7 colours of the rainbow, leaving out violet, I believe. So there is already a (subtle) way to differentiate.

I just noticed the Daten issue too!

@Daten, are you aware your username is just one letter different from one of FWR’s most esteemed contributors, or is it just an extraordinary coincidence?

People could quite easily miss that minor difference and think it was actually Datun posting, when in fact it’s you. And I’m quite sure you wouldn’t want that, now, would you?

@ChesterBelloc are you and your most awful of mother's actually suggesting that Mermaid's rainbow is not the most inclusivist rainbow in the whole wide LGBTQ universe?

Shame on the pair if you.

Poor odd Violet. She's had a hard life, bless her. Just imagine how you'd feel if all that people associated you with was little purple weird tasting sweets!!?

#IbelieveinViolet

MissHoskins

There has been a quite a few new posters on FWR using regular names but changing one letter.

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Like you OP I have started to roll my eyes at rainbows, I'm sick of the corporate rainbows and emojis and it generally becoming a status of some kind. I became suspicious and I had negative reaction to rainbows when I saw them.

No, no one 'owns' rainbows but I saw it as a symbol that was co-opted and it lost its positive meaning for me. Seeing children's drawings around my village has shifted my view slightly and it now is more associated with hope for me, so you're not wrong, I get your point.

These rainbows I can live with and enjoy, rainbows that support the gender ideology and destruction of the mental (and physical, sexual) health of children I will never tolerate.