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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

Woke change to England flag.

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Careforcarers · 22/03/2024 09:12

Surely flags are flags but no Nike did a 'playful update' adding trans colours to the England football kit.

Imagine changing the flag of others countries!

What is it with companies like Nike that they have to push trans down everyone's throats.

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Peetra · 24/03/2024 12:01

GlomOfNit · 23/03/2024 18:37

This thread is dispiriting. To me, it shows how our justifiable and urgent anger and concern over the erosion of women's rights and spaces is being hijacked by the right wing. (Yes and I know that rightwingers can be feminists too! For the flag-shagger variety, it's not exactly their natural habitat though, is it?) Fuck off and find another bandwagon.

I suspect mischief on the part of the thread-starter. I want no part in it.

(also, it's a non-argument and preposterous. It's not 'trans colours' - look them up in your I Spy Book of Identity Flags ffs. And there has been TONS of talk in the media about what a non-issue this is, that the sacred Flag has been rendered in all sorts of ways and colours for previous championships. And nobody, save a few Reform groupies, gives a shiny one.)

The wokies have found the thread then 🙄

If you don't like it then don't post and move on.

AzureNewt · 24/03/2024 19:27

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Woke change to England flag.
GlomOfNit · 24/03/2024 19:48

Peetra · 24/03/2024 12:01

The wokies have found the thread then 🙄

If you don't like it then don't post and move on.

No thanks. I'm a regular reader and occasional poster on this particular board. I've no intention of moving on - I explained clearly why I don't think this sort of post is helpful on THIS particular board. What has it to do with feminism or women's rights?

TathingScinsel · 24/03/2024 20:33

AzureNewt · 24/03/2024 19:27

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That’s a rubbish meme - who doesn’t like engines?

TheMarzipanDildo · 24/03/2024 20:40

Where did this rumour start? I mean it’s immediately obvious to anyone with google that those aren’t the trans colours.

AzureNewt · 24/03/2024 22:04

TheMarzipanDildo · 24/03/2024 20:40

Where did this rumour start? I mean it’s immediately obvious to anyone with google that those aren’t the trans colours.

Nuts, isn’t it?

The Telegraph provided a “helpful” diagram.

Apparently:

  • on the home kit, the horizontal axis looks somewhat similar to the bisexual flag (as in, it has 2 colours in common, but not in the same order.

  • on the away kit, the vertical axis has 3 colours. The lesbian flag is also a flag that has colours (6 of them). Admittedly, there’s no similarity between the colours but surely two things having colours can’t be a coincidence?

  • on the away kit, the horizontal axis has 2 colours which are sort of similar to 2 of the 3 colours from the trans flag, albeit not in the same order and a different number of stripes.

WOKEY WOKES R WOKING EVERYTHING!!!!!!!!!

AzureNewt · 24/03/2024 22:05

TathingScinsel · 24/03/2024 20:33

That’s a rubbish meme - who doesn’t like engines?

Some engines are fine, just not the woke ones.

TathingScinsel · 24/03/2024 23:59

AzureNewt · 24/03/2024 22:05

Some engines are fine, just not the woke ones.

Wtf is a woke engine though? And what about the engine in the picture signifies it’s a woke engine and not just an engine?

I’m sure it’s possible to make a
similar image that does mock anti-woke-folk but there must be a better ladybird book to appropriate?

It’s as if someone tried to make a
leftwing version of this but didn’t understand how jokes work, so just cobbled together any old crap.

Woke change to England flag.
AzureNewt · 25/03/2024 01:02

TathingScinsel · 24/03/2024 23:59

Wtf is a woke engine though? And what about the engine in the picture signifies it’s a woke engine and not just an engine?

I’m sure it’s possible to make a
similar image that does mock anti-woke-folk but there must be a better ladybird book to appropriate?

It’s as if someone tried to make a
leftwing version of this but didn’t understand how jokes work, so just cobbled together any old crap.

Geez.

So the whole point is that some people apply the “woke” label to each and every thing that they don’t like, regardless of whether it could reasonably be described as “woke”.

Hence the name of the book “Everything I don’t like is Woke”.

Most people would, presumably, realize that accusing an engine of being woke is ridiculous, which is why it’s actually a good choice of ladybird book cover, in terms of conveying the particular point.

XDownwiththissortofthingX · 26/03/2024 16:20

MorrisZapp · 22/03/2024 10:06

I can't comment on the St George's Cross as I'm Scottish, but if the FA or any sports manufacturer messed with the Saltire there would be a stooshie of epic proportion. We're not flag shaggers, we're proud Scots.

The SFA and Diadora released this in 2007, it was worn by players and fans alike for three years, and nobody batted an eyelid.

Woke change to England flag.
CurlewKate · 26/03/2024 16:43

I thought they were something to do with the 1966 England training kit! The trans colours are,bafflingly, pink and blue.

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