No I don't want a pride sticker thank you, I just want my pint of milk

[AutisticLegoLover]

I was asked at my local Co-op earlier if I wanted a pride sticker with my pint of milk. No, I don't. I just want to shop without pride this that and the other. It was the alphabet soup flag version. The overly enthusiastic young man was quite taken aback by my I certainly do not response but I am so fed up of it being everywhere and what does it even mean anymore? I'm all for everyone having equal human rights. That's it.
I've had so many emails from M&S, Waitrose, Co-op, and others all about supporting pride month. Vinted now flashes a rainbow heart before it turns red when I favourite items.
The young man in question above is far too over familiar and needs to tone it đown a bit from scarily wishing my teenager a pleasant existence to just normal pleasant customer service. I could have asked him what the sticker was all about and got into a discussion with him but that's not his job and I don't want to get banned 😁
The heat makes me cranky but I've seriously had enough of this now. Will it ever stop or will more and more be added to that rather full flag of many colours until the original meaning is completely lost? Will we ever be able to shop without identity politics coming into it?

I've just watched this from another thread and it sums things up perfectly. A gay man and a lesbian discussing pride.

There were pride cupcakes at DD's school today. There's a big flag outside all year round and there's rainbow bricks all around the school. Her lesbian friends identify as non-binary or trans to evade the rife homophobia. Using the word gay as an insult in common. Faggot is another I've heard by her fellow students lately. Disgusting.

I couldn’t care less if you find it offensive.

And there we have it. Operation 'let them speak' in action.

All minorities are equal. But some are more equal than others.

I find it very interesting that the people who turn up to scold the posters here for being phobic and unkind are so quick to turn nasty.

Speaks volumes.

TBH, I don't want to be inundated with stuff about firefighters and breastfeeding for a month, when I go to buy a pint of milk or socks.

And I'm married to a volunteer firefighter and spent around seven years of my life breastfeeding, and have helped support other women.

It's just all too much. I don't need shops telling me what to do or what is important.

The way I see it is, if you’ve got banks and other massive corporations backing you and pushing your agenda, how oppressed are you??
for a whole month? Plus all the other parades and remembrance days.
Pride parade in my city is in august.
Women get one day, which is often hijacked by trans women or just lame men asking when men’s day is (it’s in November)
We do have black history month but that’s more in schools libraries and museums not banks and corps.
what visibility to disabled and neurodivergent people get?
What inclusion do single parents and other people with caring responsibilities get in the average workplace?
I’ve worked with and am friends with lots of LGB people, I’ve never discriminated against them and they seem to have the same rights as everyone else in this country at least, there’s work to be done in other places, stonewall and the like should be focusing their efforts there instead of widening the umbrella so much that it includes so many straight people as to be meaningless.
That’s without going into the fact pup play, age play, fetish and trans is problematic for gay people and women’s and children’s rights.

I've been back to the co-op twice now with different staff serving me and I've not been offered a sticker and nor has anyone else in the queue. The sticker sheet is languishing on the back where they put rejected items.